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Kostura, 839 Blandford Boulevard evaluation <br />Evaluation to Redwood City criteria for a Mills Act nomination <br />Per Redwood City Municipal Code (Ordinance No. 1815, § 1, 3-10-1980; Chapter 40: Historic <br />Preservation; Section 40.6: Historic Designation Criteria): <br />An improvement may be designated an historic landmark or historic site by the City Council, and <br />any area within the City may be designated an historic district by the City Council pursuant to <br />Section 40.7 of this Chapter if it meets the following criteria (see below). The subject house <br />does, or does not, meet the criteria in these ways: <br />A. It exemplifies or reflects special elements of the city's cultural, aesthetic, or architectural <br />history. <br />This house does not exemplify this history in any striking way. Regarding architectural history, <br />the house is more properly considered under (C), below. <br />B. It is identified with persons or events significant in local, State, or national history. <br />The previous evaluation by Katherine Solomonson did not identify the owners and residents of <br />this house through history. For this reason, the house cannot at present be considered to possess <br />significance under this criterion. <br />C. It embodies distinctive characteristics of a style, type, period or method of construction, or is a <br />valuable example of the use of indigenous materials or craftsmanship. <br />839 Blandford Boulevard appears to be eligible for the California Register at the local level as a <br />fine and early example of the Colonial Revival Ranch style house, as defined in Virginia Savage <br />McAlester’s A Field Guide to American Houses (2015). The house’s three most distinctive <br />features are its broadly horizontal emphasis, with a U-shaped footprint that follows the line of the <br />streets; its brick veneer — found mainly in the front of the central wing — which provides color <br />and texture; its hipped roof; and the brick landscape elements. Other notable features are lintels <br />over the windows in the brick-clad areas of the house, the recessed porch in the rear, and the <br />wooden box (or oriel) windows that flank the porch. The Period of Significance is 1939, the year <br />the house was built. <br />D. It is representative of the notable work of a builder, designer or architect. <br />According to the previous evaluation by Katherine Solomonson, the architect of the house was <br />Arthur D. Jannsen, of Menlo Park. His career has not been studied to date and so he remains <br />little-known, or unknown, in local architectural history. If his career is studied, and if he <br />emerges as an important architect, the house could well be found to possess significance under <br />this criterion, but that has not been done yet. <br />22 <br />9.A. - Page 122 of 247 <br />380