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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20080915 - VII-1MEMO VII-1 To: Mayor Hicks and City Council Members From: Justin Fortney, Associate Planner Date: September 15, 2008 Re: Historic Property Designation REQUEST The City Council is asked to consider designating the 16 properties recommend by the Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC). The ordinance directs the HPC to conduct surveys at intervals to identify and research properties that meet the standards of significance that would qualify them to be added to the list of Heritage Preservation Sites. The HPC and City Council have done this about every 8-10 years. The last time this was done was in 1998 and led to the designation of 16 properties, including Guardian Angels Church, which was tabled for about 12 mouths as the property was in the process of being sold at the time of consideration. PUBLIC PURPOSE OF THE CITY PRESERVATION POLICY We ha~ee inherited a built environment which gives Hastings its unique character and we strive to make every effort pass it on to the next generation. Cities use mechanisms such as land-use policies, comprehensive plans, design guidelines, zoning ordinances and historic preservation ordinances to preserve the beauty, livability, and cultural heritage of the community. Historic preservation contributes to many values sought by old and new communities: a walkable environment, stable and attractive neighborhoods, distinctive public spaces, civic involvement and community pride. OWNER COMMENTS The comments that have been received by staff concerning the proposed 16 properties that the Council received earlier have also been added to this memo after the study reports. Many comments were made to staff and are provided for your information. Comments in letterform addressed to the Council were given to staff to provide to the City Council. All 16 properties proposed for designation have been included in one resolution for simplicity. If the Council chooses to not designate properties a motion can be made to amend the resolution by removing an address prior to action on the resolution. The Council can give staff direction on a property removed from the resolution (i.e. bring the property back for consideration after a period of 18 months). Although it was time consuming the HPC voted separately for each property under consideration because the ordinance requires them to make specific findings of significance for each property. IMPACTS OF DESIGNATION If an owner's property is designated, the will have to obtain approval for exterior changes to the property. Staff can approve minor changes like re-roofing and repairs. The HPC approves new windows, re-siding, additions, new garages, demolitions, and the like. Approval for painting and landscaping is not required. The owners of designated residential properties would gain access to very low interest loans for repair or restoration projects to their historic property through the HRA. Qualifying income- producing historic properties maybe eligible for federal income tax credits. In the future, there may be a State income tax program for all owners of historic properties. DESIGNATION STUDY PROCESS SUMMARY The study began in November, 2007 after the HPC had the consultant Landscape Research LLC begin looking at properties throughout town that maybe good candidates to study. In January, 2008 the HPC selected 45 properties to study, which included a potential 3`d street historic district. As the preliminary research was compiled, the HPC removed properties that did not appear to meet the designation criteria from the study. In the end, 18 properties were fully studied. The consultant found that 200 6t'' St. W did not meet the criteria and was removed from the study. The Planning Commission reviewed the list of properties and recommended to the City Council that there were no conflicts between the 17 proposed properties and any adopted plans or ordinances by the City Council. The State Historic Preservation Office also reviewed the 17 properties and agreed with all the recommendations of the consultant except for Todd Field, which they believe has been too a tei•e to e esigriated: The HPC recomineiided to the City Council that all 16 properties meet the criteria for local designation. They tabled one property because the homeowner provided the consultant with the original abstract, which contains new information that should be included in the report. In all, the property owners have been sent about 8 letters updating theirs on the study and inviting them to 4 public meetings. LEGALITIES OF HISTORIC DESIGNATION BY MUNICIPALITIES Preserving historical, architectural, archaeological, engineering, and cultural heritage is directed by the City of Hastings Ordinance, which is enabled by state statute. The following state statute and local ordinances similar to Hastings that have led to the designation of property have been court tested and found to be legal. Enabling State Statute (in part) 471.193 Municipal heritage preservation. Subdivision 1. Policy. The legislature finds that the historical, architectural, archaeological, engineering, and cultural heritage of this state is among its most important assets. Therefore, the purpose of this section is to authorize local governing bodies to engage in a comprehensive program of historic preservation, and to promote the use and conservation of historic properties for the education, inspiration, pleasure, and enrichment of the citizens of this state. Subd. 2. Heritage preservation commissions. The governing body of a statutory or home rule charter city, county, or town may establish a heritage preservation commission to preserve and promote its historic resources according to this section. Subd. 3. Powers. The powers and duties of any commission established pursuant to this section may include any power possessed by the political subdivision creating the commission, but shall be those delegated or assigned by the ordinance establishing the commission. These powers may include: (1) the survey and designation of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are of historical, architectural, archaeological, engineering, or cultural significance; Local Enabling Ordinance (in part) § 30.10 HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION (D) Designation of Heritage Preservation Sites. (1) Designation study. The Commission shall continue to survey properties, conduct studies, and gather documentation of properties which has reason to believe are significant to the community. (6) Council designation. The Commission shall forward its recommendations, together with its findings of significance and integrity and with the comments of the Planning Commission and of the State Historic Preservation Office, to the City Council. The City Council, upon recommendation of the Commission may, by resolution, designate a Heritage Preservation Site or District. Prior to the designation, the City Council shall hold a public hearing, notice of which shall have been published in a newspaper of general circulation at least 10 days prior to the date of the hearing, and notice of the hearing shall be sent to all owners of property which is proposed to be - - -designated a- Herita-ge Preservation Site and to all property owners within the boundary of the area to be designated a Heritage Preservation District. PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION The HPC Ordinance requires the Planning Commission with reviewing and making a recommendation to the City Council as to the effect of the designations on the zoning code, comprehensive plan, development plans, or development objectives adopted by the City Council, if any. The Planning Commission recommended to the City Council that there are no foreseeable incompatibilities between the proposed designations and the zoning code, comprehensive plan, development plans, or development objectives adopted by the City Council. Below is a summary of the plans they reviewed. Zoning Code: The designations of the proposed properties are consistent with the current Zoning Ordinance. 906 Vermillion St is currently a lawfully non-conforming use. It is used as an office building in a residential zoning district, which is not allowed today. The use is "grandfathered" because it is not allowed now, but it was allowed when the office use began. Historic designation would not change this status. Comprehensive Plan: The Designation Study conducted by the HPC in conjunction with the consulting firm Landscape Research was not only done inline with the guidelines and policies of the Comprehensive Plan, but also responds to a clear responsibility to do so. Development Plans: The only applicable development plan covering the proposed properties is the Heart of Hastings Plan, which includes a redevelopment concept for the Hudson Manufacturing Company at 200 2"d St W, which does not include the demolition of the historic structure on the property. The proposed designation of Hudson would not affect the use of the property. Use, size, and density are matters that are governed by the zoning ordinance. Although the HPC would be required to review changes to the Hudson property after designation, it is likely that they would approve the demolition of the modern metal and concrete buildings between the historic structure and the river. Approving the demolition of modern industrial structures and approving the construction of compatible buildings maybe in the interest of historic preservation as it would ensure the longevity of the historic structure. Development Objectives: All of the development objectives adopted by the City Council concerning the proposed properties are in the aforementioned plans. PROPOSED PROPERTIES FOR DESIGNATION Address Owners Expressed Strong Opposition _.... . 1: 220 Si ley St Jeffrey; Laura Caturia & Mark; Michelle Andersen 2. 313 Ramsey St Harold D Hoban 3. 406E 7`'' St Charles & Brownell Hilger 4. 401 Ramsey St Peter, Jacquelyn Kranz & Thomas, Cynthia Johnson 5. 220-222 W 3'~d Anna M Tste Gydesen 6. 308E 4`'' St Mary E Crawmer 7. 906 Vermillion James P & Kathryn B Oconnell Yes 8. 807 Vermillion Paul W & Karen L Swanstrom Yes 9. 10`x' & Vermillion Hastings ISD (Todd Field) 10. 200 W 2"~ St Hudson Manufacturing 11. 402 W 7`'' St William & Jacqueline Boler 12. 204 W 3'~d St Kacie Vaccaro 13. 700 W 6`'' St Joe E & Lynae J Mach 14. 1007 Sibley St Edna Ann Siebenaler 1 S. 111E 3'~d St Kathryn L Birkeland Yes 16. 608 Eddy St Richard Graham & Patricia Powers ATTACHMENTS Resolution • Designation Study Reports • Property Owner Comments CITY OF HASTINGS Dakota County, Minnesota September 15, 2008 RESOLUTION NO A RESOLUTION OF THE CI'TyY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HASTINGS DESIGNATING PROPERTIES AS HERITAGE PRESERVATION SITES Council member and moved its adoption: introduced the following Resolution WHEREAS The city of Hastings finds that the historic and architectural heritage of the City is a community asset and has established a municipal program of historic preservation under Minnesota Statutes 471.193; and WHEREAS The City of Hastings has adopted Sect. 30.10 of the City Code to provide procedures for the designation and preservation of the Heritage Preservation Sites by reason of their significance; and WHEREAS The City of Hastings is a Certified Local Government established May 10, 1988 under the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1980; and WHEREAS The City of Hastings has entered into a research contract with Landscape Research LLC., a historic architecture consultant, which recommended to the Heritage Preservation Commission that the properties listed below meet the Hastings City Code Sect. 30.10 definition of significance for Heritage Preservation Sites. WHEREAS The Heritage Preservation Commission found at their meeting on August 19, 2008 that the properties listed below do meet the criteria for designation under the procedures established by Sect. 30.10 of the Hastings City Code and recommends to the Hastings City Council their designation as Heritage Preservation Sites; NOW THEREFOR BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Hastings hereby designates the properties listed below as Heritage Preservation Sites. AND BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL that the following notice be recorded on the title of all the following Heritage Preservation Sites: 1.220 Sibley St 2.313 Ramsey St 3. 406 E~7th St 4. 401 Ramsey St 5. 220-222 W 3'~d 6. 308E 4t'' St 7. 906 Vermillion 8. 807 Vermillion 9. Todd Field, l 0th & Vermillion (Lots 1 through 8 Block 78 Town of Hastings) 10. 200 W 2nd St 11. 402 W 7th St 12. 204 W 3'~d St _ ... _i 3. 700 W 6t~, St . - _ .. - - - - 14. 1007 Sibley St 15. 111E 3'~d St 16. 608 Eddy St NOTICE is hereby given that this property has been designated by the Hastings City Council as a Heritage Preservation Site as defined by Hastings City Code, Section 30.10. Provisions of the Hastings City Code require that building permits for any alteration, relocation, demolition or new construction on this property be reviewed by the Heritage Preservation Commission before issuance. Further information is available at Hastings City Hall. Council member moved a second to this resolution, and upon being put to a vote it was unanimously adopted by all Council members present. Adopted by the Hastings City Council on September 15, 2008, by the following vote: Ayes: Nays: Absent: ATTEST: Paul J. Hicks, Mayor Melanie Mesko Lee, City Clerk (City Seal) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the above is a true and correct copy of resolution presented to and adopted by the City of Hastings, County of Dakota, Minnesota, on the 15t~' day of September, 2008, as disclosed by the records of the City of Hastings on file and of record in the office. Melanie Mesko Lee, City Clerk (SEAL) This instrument drafted by: City of Hastings (JJF) 101 4th St. East Hastings, MN 55033 The Hastings Local Designation Study ~'roject 2C)C)7 - 2C)~8 ~~,. 7 s~ ~ ~ ~~ ; ~~ ~~T~T~ ~~~T~ r r ~~ 1 .~ y Hudson Manufacturing Co., ca. 9935 Prepared for The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Landscape Research LLC St. Paul, laIinnesota -~ 2008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos l~ ,~ ~~ ~~~{{ 1 h ~~ r M- .~ SHPO #: DK-HTC-322 4~~ ~~ ~M4t~ ~~~ ~• i ai- . .,.. C Y_ ilk _ ~}y~i.,. ~ '1~ r F * ~ ,.. µ,., -. .~~ Looking northeast, 4/IU/U8, Landscape Nesearch LLC Historic Name: Hastings National Guard Armory SHPO #: DK-HTC-322 Current Name: multiple businesses Address: 220 Sibley Stl•eet Property Type: commercial Date of Construction: 1922 Legal Description: Portions of Lots 7~and B~Block~l3 Town of Hastings ~~~~ Property Identification Numbe-- (PIN): 19-32150082-13 UTM: 511759E 4954469N NAD 83 T 115 R 17 Sec 27 SW-NW-NW Recommendation of Eligibility: Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Public and Civic Life Description The armory faces east on Sibley Street at the northwest corner of 3rd Street. The two-stoty I•einforced concrete building constructed in 1922 I•ests on a I-aised concrete foundation. The gable roof has shallow parapets with stone coping. Concrete steps lead to the centered entrance on Sibley Sri•eet. The principal facades are clad in dark brown, vitrified brick. The Sibley Street facade has paired gables and regularly- spaced squal•e windows. OI-iginal sash has been I-eplaced with metal sliding casement sash. {r ~ : o I3 Hastings flerila~e Preservation Comrnissron Loco! Derignalion Project ?OOS I Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-322 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos The two-story brick annex at the south was constructed in 1940. The annex has a centered entrance facing south on 3rd Street. metal sash windows remain. The ground-floor openings have been replaced with modern doors and there is a shallow, asphalt-roofed awning. There are two garage doors at the north elevation. The rear and west elevations are clad in tan brick. History The Hastings Armory served as the drill grounds and meeting place of the Hastings National Guard from 1922 to 1974. The men and women training in the National Guard in Hastings have served in all of the major wars from 1861 to the present. The Hastings National Guard has also served the local population in tunes of disaster and community engagement. While Hastings supplied volunteers to the Civil War, the National Guard did not officially form in Hastings until Adjutant General Rhinow authorized the transfer of Company "H" Sixth Infantry from St. Paul on January 30, 1919 under the cornrnand of Captain John C. Tyler with the assistance of Lt. John Karpen and Second Lt. Charles Kranz. The unit drilled above the Wilson Ford Garage on Ramsey Street between 2nd and 3rd streets. In November 1921, the Hastings City Council moved to build an armory and purchased land at the corner of 3r-d and Sibley streets. In order to garner- $25,000 in additional funds from the state, Hastings had to raise funds and enlist a company into the National Guard. In one day, seventy-one men enlisted2 and thirty-nine "public-spirited business men of Hastings" joined efforts to raise $1,000 J. E. Doffing, Irving Todd Jr., Jacob and Peter Hiniker, and local businesses Hanson Brothers Grocers, Hudson Manufacturing, First National Bank, Hastings National Bank, and the Gardner- Hote1.3 Lot 7 of the building site was occupied by a dwelling, and Lot 8 was vacant4. Plans for- the new armory- planned with all the "modern conveniences of a community center"-were issued for construction bids in January 1922. The two-story, brick building had a 1000-inch rifle range, drill room, rest rooms, Legion rooms, dining rooms, kitchen, and library.s C.E. Lewis Company of St. Paul built the armory for $22,000.6 The armory opened with an Armistice Day dance on November 11, 1922 with more than 1,000 people in attendance. Master of Ceremonies was Capt. J. P. Karpen.~ The official dedication was held on December 22 with speakers Major A. A. Van Dyke and Senator J. M. Millet. The dedication ended with the raffle of a Chevrolet automobiles Capt. Leon M. Truax succeeded Capt. John Karpen in 1925. He cornrnanded the company until 1934. Capt. Clifford Densmore was commanding officer from 1934 to 1938, with Lts. John Gove and Charles W. Moore. In 1938 Capt. John E. Gove succeeded Densmore. In 1940 the Hastings unit was changed ~ "First National Guard Unit Here," Hastings Gazette, 23 December 1949. "Seventy-One Enlistments in New Company," Hastings Gazette, 4 November 1921. ' "New Armory to be Located on the Comer of Third and Sibley," Hastings Gazette, 11 November 1921. Sanborn Fire Insw•ance Map, Hastings, Sheet 3. ' "Open Armory Bids," Hastings Gazette, 13 January 1922. e "Old Armory Stirs Memories, M[~ssissip~i Volley Star, 17 January 1974. "Armory Dance Sets New Record for Attendance in this Locality," Hastings Gazette, 17 November 1922. ~ Hastings Gazette, 29 December 1922. Hcrs[ings Heri[age Preserra[ion Commission Locrr/ Designrnion Project 2008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-322 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos from the Infantry to Coast Artillery. It was designated as Battery E, 216th CA (AA) and served in WWII. In 1939 the drill room was opened for indoor rollerskating. In 1940 a large addition was completed at the south end of the building for vehicle storage. After WWII, Captain Bernard J. Steffen reorganized the company into Company "D" 135t1i Infantry Minnesota National Guard. He was assisted by 1s1 Lts. John S. Kleis and Charles E. Welch, 2"d Lts. Raymond J. Radke, Amos J. Welshons and James G. Sieben.10 In 1949 the company was an Infantry Heavy Weapons Company with four platoons. Lacking vehicle storage, the armory was replaced in 1974 with a new concrete armory in the Hastings Industrial Park, south of Highway 316." The 18,000 square-foot building was constructed by Adolfson and Peterson for $45,000.12 More than 200 guardsmen gathered at the closing ceremony on January 19, 1974. The armory was sold for retail use to James Caturia and Henn Gelhar.13 Minnesota National Guar-cl The Minnesota National Guard has served in the Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Berlin Wall, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq. The Minnesota~territorial militia of citizen soldiers was founded in 1850, but did not form a unit until the Pioneer Guards of St. Paul formed in 1856. Governor Ramsey called for Civil War volunteers in 1861 and the Minnesota Militia formed three companies of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. After the war, the militia officially organized as the Minnesota National Guard. By 1900, federal legislation eventually standardized the Army's organized reserves. A widespread armory-building campaign began after WW I; construction of twenty-three armories was authorized in 1923.14 In 1916 Hastings organized a Supply Company for the 1 S` Infantry Regiment of the Minnesota National Guard and demobilized at Camp Grant, Illinois. On May 1, 1921 the local unit became a Service Company of the 1 s` Infanhy Regiment and during World War II the Battery E 216t1i AAAW was stationed in Hastings.l' After WWII the company became a Reconnaissance company and reorganized in 1959 as Company D for the Korean War. Recommendation The Hastings National Guard Armory is recommended as eligible for local designation as a contributing property in the existing E. 2nd Street Historic District. It is significant in the areas of public and civic life. This broad context is described in the Hastings Historic Context Study (1993). The Hastings Preservation Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. The armory is associated with the Minnesota National Guard and local reserves' contribution to wartime efforts. The period of significance spans from the date of 9 "First National Guard Unit Here Activated 30 Jan. 1919," Hastings Gazette, 23 December 1949. 10 James Sieben worked his way through the command to Brigadier General and commanded the Minnesota National Guard in 1975. ~ ~ Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), p. 204. ~' "New Armory," Hastings Star, 6 March 1980. ~' "An Armory No Longer, Mississippi Valley Star, 12 March 1975. 14 Carole Zellie, "Hastings Historic Contexts Study, 1993," 30. ~' Hastings Gazette, 16 January 1941. Hrrslings Heritage Preseri~a[ion Conrniission Local Designation Project 201)8 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-322 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos construction in 1922 until the National Guard moved to its new building in 1974. Despite sash and door replacement and alterations to the 3rd Street entry, the building retains a generally good level of exterior historic integrity. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Property Map r :: ,. co ~ ~ =I ,: i , ~~ ~:: E ~ ,,~ y) l ~.. I M~ _ z --- ~::~ s , '~ rx ( ~ y ~ 4~, ~ ~ } r ~~' 3RD.5T E rn~ Jy ~ IT 1 ~ F.... -J -. 4....-.~-.-1 ~ t J,. ~~~~PYn~~ht i•J 10L1,;, pakuta C unt:~~ `~~ ~ t ~I.~ R1 220 Sibley Street. Source: Dakota Co. Real Estate Inquiry N^ Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Commission Locn! Designation Project 20115 4 ll 1~lnnesota l Hi~i~aricai! 5r~~i~t~y July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation o£ Hastings National Guard Armory, 220 Sibley St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2221 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The Hastings Armory is atwo-story, reinforced concrete building constructed in 1922 with a two-story brick annex added to the south in 1940. The Armory served as the headquarters, drill hall, and meeting place for the Hastings National Guard from 1922 to 1974. It was constructed during an armory building campaign in Minnesota after World War I in which 23 armories were completed by the early 1920s. In Hastings, the National Guard was officially organized in 1919; the unit drilled above the Wilson Ford Garage on Ramsey Street. Like many other armories built in the state during the period, the new Hastings Armory was designed to serve not only the National Guard but also the larger population of Hastings as a community center. The new building had a rifle range, drill space, American Legion rooms, dining rooms, kitchen, library, and rest rooms. The Hastings Armory is historically significant for its association with the Minnesota National Guard and their contributions to war efforts. We concur that the armory is eligible for local designation as a contributing property in the existing East Second Street Historic District. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, i.~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos ~ ~ t ~. SHPO #: DK-HTC-008 r• ~ A ' ',"~ ;,, 'tip; _ ~. } '(. . 1 7 , I~ ti t ;,yr.hr y `~~ ~~~ i +- ~ 1 %~ f .j`6 ~' . ~ ' ~ > '~" u~l y., »~ Looking east, 4/10/08, Landscape Lte~~~:urh I I l Historic Name: Schaller Building Current Name: Property Type: commmercial Date of Construction: ca. 1865 SHPO #: DK-HTC-008 Address: 313 Ramsey Street Legal Description: N 22 ft of Lot 5 Block 18; N 22 ft of W 21 ft of Lot 6 Block 18 Property Identification Number (PIN) 19-32150-062-18 UTM: 155110901E 4954391N NAD 83 T115 R17 S27 SE-NW-NW Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Industry and Commerce, Alsatian- and German-Americans Description The Schaller Block is atwo-story, flat-roofed commercial structure. It faces west and is situated on a 22- foot parcel between an alley and a ca. 1925 frame garage. A shallow parapet rises above the roofline at the facade. The Ramsey St. (west) facade is finished in dressed stone, while the sides are limestone rubble. The rear (east) elevation has aone-story addition clad in stucco. The upper-story windows have stone lintels and sills, and the ground level openings have stone voussoirs with prominent keystones. HasrAlgs Heritage Preservation C'onvnission Loco( DesigncNion Project ?OOS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-008 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 There is a dentil course at the base of the parapet. There is a door opening on the north elevation. Sash and glazing have been replaced in all window openings. The entries contain modern doors. History Jacob Schaller (1820-1869) purchased the parcels that comprise this property from Patrick Rourke and Peter Smith in 1863 and 1864, and the property remained in the Schaller family until 1946. ~ Schaller was a native of Alsace Lorraine, France, and was likely German-speaking. In 1856, Jacob and his brother Michael (1821-1864) built and then operated the Schaller Brewery, apparently until Michael's death from tuberculosis. This was Hastings' first brewery; by 1869 there were three.2 The Schaller brewery was located on the north shore of Lake Isabel on lots 5 and 6 of Block 11, Barker's Addition (1300 E. 3rd Street). According to anecdotal material in the Hastings Pioneer Room, the Schaller residence was built north of the brewery on lots 5 and 6 of Block 4.3 313 Ramsey was apparently intended as a speculative investment. The Schallers also erected a commercial building on Block 13 of the Original Town of Hastings on E. 2nd Street.4 In 1860, the Federal census lists Michael and Barbara Schaller (who married in 1849), their four children, and the unmarried Jacob Schaller in the household on Lake Isabel.s Michael Schaller died of tuberculosis in 1864. The brewery was sold to M. Ulmer in 1866 and a fire in 1867 partially destroyed the building. Jacob Schaller died of tuberculosis in 1869. The property was sold to M. Borser and Charles Yaeger and completely destroyed by fire in 1870.6 During the late 19th century, this building was part of a snore densely-built commercial area than it is at present. Located two blocks from the E. 2nd Street commercial district, by 1884 it was across the street from Teutonia Hall and on the same block as the Western Hotel, and small shops were located in the next block of Ramsey Street to the north. After Michael's death, Barbara (1826-1921), married Jonas Lambert (1845-1927). A music dealer and teacher, he was a native of Maine. He had previously boarded in the household of A. E. Towle, a grocer also from Maine. The household in 1880 included Barbara's son, attorney Albert Schaller (24), and clerk Justin Schaller (22); daughters Celestine and Justine, and a 24-year-old servant, Mary McGuire.8 By 1900, the Lamberts were living at 221 W. 3rd St., along with Celestine. At the same address in 1910, Celestine was then a hotel manager. In 1920, the family was in Frontenac, Minnesota, where Celestine ~ Dakota County Deed Book 226, p. 22. In 1856, Peter Smith conveyed the north 20 feet of Lot 5 to Robert Taylor, Dakota County Deed Book C 49. Peter Smith (1819-?) was Dakota County's first jeweler, and occupied half of the furnitw-e store building of H. Butteruff at 2nd and Ramsey. See Lucille Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hammargren Printing, Kilkenny, Minn), 37. Smith arrived in Hastings in 1855. By 1881 his business was at 256 2nd Street; see George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History ofDakota Cocrnt_y and the City ofHastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Co., 1881), 318. ' Warner and Foote, History of Dakota Cotrnt7r (1881), 281; "The Brewery Industry in Hastings," undated, unpaginated manuscript in Hastings Pioneer Room vertical file (Breweries). ' "The Brewery hldustry in Hastings," undated manuscript in Hastings Pioneer Room vertical file (Breweries). Hazel Jacobsen, Schaller-Olson Building research, ca. 1972. On file, Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission. ' 1860 Federal Census, Hastings, 1st Ward. Date of marriage from Schaller family file, Hastings Pioneer Room. 6 "The Brewery Industry in Hastings;" Yaeger and Borser were not located in the federal or state census. ~ 1870 Federal Census, Hastings 2nd Ward; Warner and Foote, 313. s 1880 Federal Census, Hastings 1st Ward. Albert Schaller (1856-1934) became a Minnesota State Senator. He married Kate Meloy (1854-1939). They had four children and in 1930 they resided at 161 5th St. Hastings Heritage Preserrcrlion Commission Locai Designation Project ?008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-008 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos was the proprietor of the Frontenac Inn.9 Albert Schaller (1856-1934) graduated from the St. Louis Law School and became the Dakota County attorney in 1879.10 The property remained in the ownership of Michael Schaller family descendants until 1939. ~ ~ During this period it was rented to various individuals. In 1884 the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map shows this building as the Jonathan Mies soda water factory.12 Heenan Schroeder, a partner in the business, and his wife Katherine Langenfeld Schroeder lived upstairs. Schroeder built a "pop factory" near his residence at 811 Ramsey Street.13 In 1898 the building appears to have been vacant.14 Information in Hastings. HPC files suggests there was a tailor at this location in ca. 1913, and other uses included asecond-hand store and a mortuary. It was a plumbing shop in the 1940s after it was purchased by Walter Brown.~s In 1967 Urban and Pearl Oehrlein purchased the property and it was converted to apartments, a use continued today.16 Discussion and Significance The Schaller Building is significant as well-conserved example of 1860s commercial construction in Hastings. Apparently built as an investment property to house a shop or store, it remains among a small number of mid-19th century limestone commercial structures in downtown Hastings. No historic photographs have been identified, but with the exception of alterations to the window sash and entry the building appears to retain good exterior integrity. The Schaller Building is associated with Michael and Jacob Schaller who were early French-American immigrants who established the first brewery in Hastings in 1856. The brothers both died by 1869. The building remained in the ownership of the Schaller family until 1939. During this period it housed a succession of short-term businesses. The period of significance spans the ownership of Jacob Schaller (ca. 1865-1869). Although the building remained in his brother's family until 1939, it was rented to a variety of businesses and had long periods of vacancy. Recommendation The Schaller Building is recommended as eligible for local designation by the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission. It is significant in the areas of industry and commerce, ethnic settlement in Hastings, and architectm•e. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Histof•ic Contexts Stucly (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance ~ 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. The Alsatian immigrant Schaller brothers were important figures in pioneer Hastings (ca. 1856-1864), and the building is a good example of local late 1860s Italianate Style commercial architecture. Despite alterations to the sash and entry, the building retains a good level of historic integrity. ~ 1900 Federal Census, Hastings. 10 Warner and Foote, 317. ~ ~ Dakota County Deed Book 266, page 22. ~' Sanborn Insurance Map, Hastings 1884, Sheet 4. ~' Hazel Jacobsen, Schaller-Olson Building research, ca. 1972. On file, Hastings Heritage Presewation Commission: Darsow, p. 22 Vol. 1. ~~ Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, March 1884, sheet 4; April 1911, sheet 3. ~' Hazel Jacobsen, "Schaller-Olson Building research," ca. 1972, n.p. 16Jacobsen, n.p. Kns•tings Hei~ilage Preservcuron Comnarssron Loco! ~esignrrtion Projec7 ?008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-008 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Property Maps N^ Hastings Heritage Preser~~ntion Commission Loco! Designatiar Project 1IlOS 3l3 Ramsey Street. Source: D~kot1 County Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-008 . .~.e r. - .... _ ..,~ s : s. ~ r s s. _ t- Ia Fes; r-=~- - ~_.. ' ~ - ~ 4 ~-~ NASTNIY~S __ ~ ~~---- -~-==~ ST. ~ u - N~ A. ; ~a; ~ , s,~; ,~. FP. M •1 i 4. 3 ;~, '~ ,'" ~ .~ '~ ; ell a4+,,~. ti~-C e~ ~ #~k .L.; > t a E~~ ;~ y x y~ a~~ o ~ 77 _ ~ ~ 9 o qe &: 50. s ,~ a ~ ~ ~ Z°. 3~3~g, u ~ ~ a ~~ I i a ~.~~ ST. a ~ ~ I I ~~m~ ~ ~-~ ~x~ .;:.y. ,.mss r P n eM1 yyy a =tr n z N ~0~~7 w ~ _y ~, ~ 1-r- --- l ~> ~ e '~ w ~ W W e ~ * ~ ..3, h &~ v ~ h sie or Feel. 'v ~V h i'-y 4. e ®' 313 Ramsey St., Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1884, Sheet 4 Hastings Heri[n;e Presernation Comrnissron Loch( Designation Project 200 5 ll lvi~nri~5vta 1 His~Qrica~ Sr~~ietY July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Schaller Building, 313 Ramsey St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2205 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). Built ca. 1865 of dressed and rubble limestone, the Schaller Building is one of a relatively small number ofwell-preserved, mid-nineteenth century commercial properties remaining in downtown Hastings. It is associated with the Schaller brothers, French-American immigrants who established the first brewery in Hastings in 1856. We concur that the Schaller Building is significant in the areas of commerce and architecture, and is therefore a good candidate for local designation. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, '~,1, E ~~.,,,yc.~-~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos -•~ ~.ti " _~ ~, '_~x,. Looking southeast, 4/10/08, Landscape Research LLC SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 Historic Name: Peter and Catherine Fasbender House SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 Current Name: Address: 406 E. 7th Street Property Type: residential Date of Construction: ca. 1877 Legal Description: Lot 3 Block 49 Town of Hastings ~~ ~~\~ ~~ y , Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32150-030-49 UTM: 15 511911E 4953990N T 115 R17 Sec 27 SE-SW-NW Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Commerce, Gernan-Americans, Architecture Description The Fasbender house is situated on a sloping lot on a residential street. The one- and one-half story red brick house rests on a limestone foundation; the north-facing facade has a limestone planter built close to the foundation. The main house has across-gable roof, with a gabled ell at the south. The eaves are trimmed with wide cornice boards. There are two gabled dormers in the ell. A frame porch wraps around the rear east and south elevations. The small entry porch placed at the west side of the building has three slender Doric columns. The first-story, north-facing window, possibly a later addition, has a pr-isrn-glass pane. This window is framed by narrow metal shutters with a floral pattern. Other window openings include a pair of windows placed under the front gable that contain one-over-one sash, and there ar-e two projecting square bays that contain pairs of 2-over -2 sash at the west elevation. The rear- yard is devoted to a concrete driveway and there are two garages. Hastings Heritage Preservation Cornntissian Local Designation Project ZOOS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 The wide cornice boards, front window hood, and columned porch retain good integrity. Portions of the red brick facade have been repointed with light mortar. A photograph of ca. 1960 in the Minnesota Historical Society Collections shows that the building was painted white. History This house appears to have been built in ca. 1877 by Peter Fasbender. The parcel was purchased from Minnesota Dennison in 1876. William Dennison, Minnesota's father, purchased the parcel from Alexis Bailly in 1856.r The Dennison family is an interesting sidebar. Major William W. Dennison (1822-1863) was an Indian Agent in Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory in 1860. He was a signer of the Treaty with the Pawnee in 1857.2 Minnesota Dennison (1854-?) was born in Washington, D.C. and married John Semmes in 1881.3 No Dennison fatnily members appear to have ever lived in Minnesota. The 1867 Bird's Eye View of Hastings does not show a building at this location. Peter Fasbender (1848-1916) was a native of Berlin, Gennany.4 He arrived in Hastings in 1869 via Kenosha County, where his family settled when he was an infant. Between ca. 1869 and ca. 1879 he worked in the hardware business of Henry H. Pringle.5 He boarded with the Pringles for some of this tirne.~ In 1880 he reported his occupation as a saloonkeeper. Next, he entered the grocery business with 25-year-old J. A. Hart, where a county history reports he remained until about 1891.3 Hart &Fasbender was at 252 2nd Street and advertised "staple and fancy groceries, provisions, flour and feed, crockery and glassware, lamps a specialty."~ Fasbender next worked for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. _ In 1900 Fasbender opened a grocery in partnership with his son William (1876-1902). Fasbender & Son was located at 206 2nd Street E.10 William died in 1902. Another son, also named Peter (1881-1957), entered the firm in 1907. In 1910 the business was described as "carrying a large stock of goods and enjoying an extensive trade, "and continued after Peter's death in 1916.rr Fasbender served as a Hastings alderman for six years and as assessor for four years. He was a member of Saint Boniface Catholic Church and held office there for 37 years.12 Peter and Catherine Freiermuth Fasbender (1856-1931) were married in 1874. Catherine was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and settled in Hampton Township with her family in 1865.13 The Fasbenders had 13 children. As noted, sons William and Peter also entered the grocery business. By 1910, Peter and his wife Regina lived next door to the ~ Dakota County Deed Book S-2, page 216. ' See Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol II, accessed as LKhttp://digital.library.okstate.edu/ICappler/volt/treaties/paw0764.htm 3 Harry Wright Newman, The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families: A Geneaological Histor~r (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1956), 85. 1920 Federal Census, Hastings 1st Ward. Franklyn Curtis-Wedge, History of Dakota acrd Goodhue Counties, Minnesota (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, 1910), 513. e 1870 Federal Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. ~ 1880 Federal Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. 3 Curtis-Wedge, 513; Joseph A. Hart was a native of Pennsylvania born to German parents (1870 Federal Census, Hastings 1st and 2nd Wards). ~ Advertisement in The News Era 14 Nov 1882, n.p. 10 Watson and Co. Watson and Conaparry's Classified Business Directory of Minneapolis and St. Paul and other Enterprising Cities, 1899/1900 (New York: the Company, 1900). ~ ~ Curtiss-Wedge, 513. ~~ Curtiss-Wedge, 513. ~' "Esteemed lady is called in death." Hustings Gaaette. 20 Nov. 1951. Hastings Heritage Preservation Conmri.rsion Locu( Designation Project 2005' Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 elder Fasbenders at 414 E. 7th Street. Peter later operated a restaurant and lived at 121 E. 6th Street.14 Herman A. (1894-1948) was a physician. He served as Mayor of Hastings during 1936-38, 1940-42, and 1946-48. A graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he was a founder of the Hope Sanitoriuin and St. Raphael Hospital.~s Herman lived at 700 W. 7th Street (DK-HTC-028). At the time of her death in 1931, Catherine Fasbender lived in the family home with her 29-year old daughter, Clara. Discussion and Significance Grocer Peter Fasbender is associated with Hastings' community of successful German-American businessmen. He founded his own firm in the 1890s, which was a decade of general progress for the city and particularly for German-Americans. In 1885, The News Era published in Hastings acknowledged the German American Bank in the Masonic Block as a "monument to the enterprise and industry of the German portion of our business men."16 Natives of New England and New York were the dominant and often well-financed early settlers of Hastings, but German-Americans had early success with business ownership. In 1860, there were 132 German-born individuals residing in the city; by 1870, the number rose to 308, and another 662 were of German stock. In addition to laborers, seven brewers, two lumber dealers, seven coopers, and a wheat buyer comprised some of the German-American occupations in this period.~~ Many of the city's Yankee businessmen were involved with the grain trade, milling, and banking, while Germans invested in businesses related to trades and skills learned in Europe. Groceries, butcher shops, breweries, bakeries, and wagon shops were popular enterprises. By 1904, 9.7 percent of the city's population was German- born, with many individuals of German descent. Hildegard B. Johnson's study of Germans in Minnesota found that this was typical of other early river coinmunities.~s While part of the German American community, Fasbender had a long and early association with the hardware business of Henry Pringle. Pringle was among an "exodus" of settlers from Batavia, New York who ar•ived in Hastings in 1856. They were established businessmen and their families, and the group included Col. John Thorne, a wealthy banker; Judge Benjamin Pringle and his wife and three sons (including Hemy Pringle); L. S. Follett, a banker; and John F. Norrish, who became a dry goods dealer.r~ These individuals were the nucleus of Hastings' "Yankee merchant and banker circle," which coexisted with the "German merchant and banker circle" represented by George Barbaras (1832-1905), Frank Yanz (1835-1923) and Jacob Yanz, Rudolph Latto (1829-1901), Dietrich Becker (1829-1904), Wendel Graus (1824-1876), Peter Fasbender, and others. Architecturally, the Fasbender House is awell-conserved example of vernacular residential construction in Hastings. The red brick exterior is trimmed with simple flat trim and there appear to have been relatively few alterations to the principal facades since construction. The building is significant for its long association Peter Fasbender, and his family. Although Fasbender did not enter the field until about ~~ 1930 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 2; Hastings Telephone Co. Directory, 1921. ~' "Dr. Fasbender, Hastings mayor, surgeon, dead." Hastings Gazette 9 Jan. 1948. ~~ The News Era 15 Dec 1885, n.p. ~~ Hildegard B. Johnson, "Germans," in They Chose Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press), 163; see also Carole Zellie, "Becker-Graus Block Local Designation Nomination Form," June 1999, on file, Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission. 's Johnson, 163. ~`' John Marrs Thorne, The Thorne Family, its Branches from the Parent Tree (Lancaster, Penn.: Lancaster Press, Inc., 1935?), 30. Hastings Heritage Preaer-ralion Connnisaion Local Designation Project 21106 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos 1890, his grocery firm grew to a leading business. The Fasbender house was located at the geographic core of the community of German-American businessmen and their families around Hastings' St. Boniface Catholic Church. The period of significance spans the date of construction, ca. 1877, to Catherine Fasbender's death in 1931. Recommendation The Peter and Catherine Fasbender House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of commerce, German-Americans, and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Stictly (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance § 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Grocer Peter Fasbender was an important figure in the city's German- American community, and the house is a good example of vernacular residential architecture. The building retains a good level of historic integrity although the surface of the brick and/or mortar may have been damaged when the paint was removed. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008. _ Property Maps ~. -, __ r - m - ~ ~ I ~ 3 _ ~ 1 '~ ~ _~, ~ '~, ~ ~ ,~ ~ ~~,.~.a _~ __ _~ , , -~ ~ - -- -~- r , , i ' _ _ ~ ~ ;~ ,~ , ~, -- ~ ~ a~ : ~ ~ ~~ , ~ ~ ~ i~ ~ _ ,~_ ~ 4 ~~ ,~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ -~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ w ~Y 4- ~ ~ ~ [ ~'~T- _ l'- = ,~ - m ` - ~+ ti _ ~ i l ~ ~ ~ I ` ~ i;o ~riaht U GUUJ, Oakot i; urt ~ ~ yi Source: Dakota County Property Inquiry N^ Hastings Heritage Preseri~crtion Commission Locat Designation Project 2Q(!S 4 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 ,T<E Sve_-r N~^F SkF ~,/6al N~S~ J ST.~ ,J_ ~~ ~ , . :F _. :~~ ~ ~ J ~, ~` 3O 31 ~ ~ ~~I i ~ 32. ~ ~ ~ .._ ....._ -T I ~ ~ ,. ~~..„Mn 1891 ~ ,m I JJJ ~~. ~ MINN. 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T v r, - \Vtyy C `-. i ~~ ~ :;. , __• ~' , 11i r = .. - ;:~ --- _. ~~, 406 E. 7th St., looking southeast, in 1960 (MHS) SHPO #: DK-HTC-200 Hastings Heritage Pr•eser-ration Gonunission Local Designation Project ZOOS 6 11 lwlnn~esot~ l Histc~ri~~l Society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO BOX 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Peter and Catherine Fasbender House, 406 E. 7`" St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2216 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 5 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance 5 30.10, (D) (5). Constructed ca. 1877, the Peter and Catherine Fasbender House is awell-preserved, 1 '/z -story, cross gable vernacular brick house. The house was built for Peter Fasbender, a German immigrant who arrived in Hastings in 1869 and ran a grocery business and held several civic positions in the city. Fasbender and his wife, Catherine Freiermuth, are associated with Hastings' community ofGerman-Americans who established numerous businesses including groceries, butcher shops, breweries, and bakeries during the late nineteenth century. We concur that the Fasbender House is eligible for local designation in the areas of architecture and commerce. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, i.~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos ( '' -_ Y R~ '~ '4 Y+{i~ ~ ~ Hid {~ ^1' »«(.~ J •. r ~t r 4 s ~:. ~ l`~ ~.^ '. ~,R, z . sy .~ • s ~ ~ ~~ ~L~~~ ~r~, ~ ~ r ~~ ~ r ~ ~~ k.~ t ~ ~ ,{ ~~j >~ Lp y r~• ~ _ J Via. !'- ~'ll' T'~ ,\~ ~ ,' ~ ~~ .~ ~ ~ r-^ ~ J ~ 'bil4 Looking east, 4/10/08, Landscape Research LLI: Historic Name: Yanz-Kranz House SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 Current Name: Beissel Apartments Address: 401 Ramsey St. Property Type: residential Date of Construction: 1882 Leal Descri tion: Lot 4 Block 31 Town of Hastin~s~~~~~ ~~ Property Identification Number (PIN): 1 9-321 50-040-3 1 1 UTM: 15 511891E 4954325N NAD 83 T115 R17 S27 E-NW Recommendation of Eligibility: Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not Evaluated Areas of Significance: Commerce, Ge~-~nan-Americans, Architecture Description The Yanz-Kranz House is situated on corner lot opposite Guardian Angels Catholic Church on a residential street. The two-and one-half story, red-brick building rests on a limestone foundation. The brick is painted white. The irregular plan is comprised of gable-and hip-roofed wings arranged around a gable-roofed core. There is a projecting two-story bay at the south elevation. Gable ends retain vergeboard trim and shingled gable ends, and there is a small balcony on the south elevation, above a projecting tripartite bay. Wood brackets at the eaves are intact. Lintels and sills appear to be stone but Hastings Heritage Preseri~alion Cornnrission Loca! Designation Project 20/18 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 have been painted. Historic sash has been replaced with one-over-one units. Two porches shown in a 19th-century newspaper illustration have been removed, and main entries have been replaced with sliding units.' Anorth-facing entry appears to occupy a former window location, and anorth-facing window has been blocked in. A modern wood deck with a wood rail surrounds the west and south elevations and a wood fire escape is located on the east elevation. The survival of interior features is not known, and the interior is not included in the designation study. However, in 1963, the interior was described in the Hastings Gazette. In 1963, a Kranz descendant recalled that "...the house had three large living rooms, two of them with black marble fireplaces. The main living room or parlor was located directly off the left of the front entrance and in wintertime, this unheated room would be closed off. The house also contained a third fireplace located in a second-floor bedroom."2 The interior millwork trim and the staircase was butternut. The 1891 Sanborn Map for Hastings suggests that the building was planned as a double house.3 History Frank Yanz (1835-1923) built this house in 1882. He purchased the lot from Edmund Stowell in the same year. a The picturesque house was larger and more ornamental than any of its neighbors, corresponding in its architectural character to some of the nearby downtown business blocks. An 1885 article noted that his residence is "the finest in the city. It is of modern construction and contains all the most modern improvements.i5 A native of Mainz, Germany, Yanz arrived in the United States in 1844 at the age of 9, f rst residing in southern Indiana.6 In ca. 1865 Frank and his brother Jacob wet•e in partnership as grocers with a Bronson as Yanz and Bronson. In 1867, the brothers opened their own grocery store in Hastings and erected (or added to) a business block at Vermillion and Second Streets.s In 1870, Frank opened his own business, specializing in crockery and groceries, and in 1876 built the Centennial Block at 2nd and Ramsey Streets.9 With his brother Jacob, he was also a partner in the wholesale grocery fern of Yanz and Howes (ca. 1884) at 249-252 3rd Street, St. Paul, later Yanz-Griggs Inc.10 The details of the extent of his involvement in this wholesale firm are unclear. Jacob lived in St. Paul by this time, and later returned to live in Gernany.~~ In 1885 Frank's Vermillion Street business was called "the most important grocery house in this city."~' The building housed apartments on the second floor and a lodge hall on the third. After a fire at the Centennial Block in March 1899, Yanz converted the upper stories to the Yanz Theater and Opera House, ~ Yanz House illustration, The Nei•vs Era, 15 Dec. 1885, n.p. ' "Ornate Third Floor Porch, Reached Only By Tiny Window Gives Delicate Touch to Massive Old Yanz-Kranz House," Hastings Gazette 28 Nov. 1963. ' Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Hastings 1891, Sheet 4. Dakota County Deed Book X-2, page 234. ' "Frank Yanz," The News Era, 15 Dec. 1885, n.p. e George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Co., 1881), 322; 1900 Federal Census, Hastings Wards 1, 2. ~ Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976),72. s "Frank Yanz dies at age of 88," Hastings Gazette 6 April 1923; Hastings Gazette 3 July 1869; 28 Aug. 1869. `' Warner and Foote, 297-98. 10 Yanz family file, Hastings Pioneer Room. ~ ~ Doffing,72. ~~ "Frank Yanz," The News Era, 15 Dec. 1885, n.p. Hrrrrings Heritage Preservation Cornrnission Locrrl Designation Project ?OOs Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 Local Designation Nomination Form coos which he opened November 15, 1899.13 The building's last use was as a Ford dealer. It was demolished for the Hastings Post Office, which was completed in 1935. The Yanz family in 1880 included Frank's wife Anna (1839-1920), sons William, Jacob, and Frank, and a servant, Gertrude Smith, 17. Anna Yanz was born in Pennsylvania. In 1908, Frank and Anna moved to Lodi, California, where they lived with their son, Frank, and operated a fann.14 They returned to Hastings in 1920.15 By 1910, William Yanz, Frank and Anna's son, was the superintendent for the Hastings Hospital for the Insane. He resided on the campus with his wife and seven childr-en.~G At the time of his death, Frank Yanz was described as a civic leader and "one of the few [remaining] men whose lives were closely associated with the early commercial life of this city." ~~ In 1905, the house was sold to Peter Kranz (1865-1923). Kranz was born in Minnesota to German- Arnerican parents.~s He and his brother Nicolas operated the Kranz Brothers Chicago Meat Market at 312-14 2nd Street. They advertised "Fresh and Salt Meats, Game, Oysters, and Poultry in Season." ~~ Peter became the sole owner in 1909. By 1910, Kranz's family included his wife, Anna (1873-1939), and nine children.20 In 1920, the household included eight of their offspring: Catherine (22), Margaret (17), Stella (16), Marie (14), Aloysius (12), Eleanor (10), and Genevieve (5). Son Charles (25) was a salesman for the meat market.Z~ From 1929 to 1935 the building served as the Knights of Columbus Meeting HaII.ZZ In ca. 1936 it was converted into four apartments by Aloysius T. Kranz (1908-1964). In 1945, the property was sold to John Schaffer and has since been used as apartments.23 Discussion and Significance Frank Yanz was the city's leading local grocer in the late 19th century, and the trade region for his wholesale business with his brother Jacob extended to St. Paul and beyond. He erected two business blocks as well as this ornate house, which was symbolic of his success. While he might have built such a large, elaborate house on a more prominent lot, he selected a location in a neighborhood of generally - modest houses near his church (St. Boniface) and his place of business on 2nd Street, and among many other German-American Catholics. ~' Yanz family clipping file, Hastings Pioneer Room; Curtis-Wedge, Franklyn. History of Dakota and Goodhue Counties, Minnesota (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, 1910), 265, incorrectly notes the fire was in 1895. The Hastings Daily Gazette 11 Nov. 1899 mentions "H.G. Carter, Minneapolis architect," in connection with the Opera House construction. 14 1920 Federal Census, Elkhorn Township, San Joaquim County, California. ~' "Frank Yanz dies at age of 88," Hastings Gazette 6 April 1923. 16 1910 Federal Census, Hastings 4th Ward. ~' Henry Castle, Minnesota, its Story and Biograph>> (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1915), 1763; "Frank Yanz dies at age of 88," Hastings Gazette 6 April 1923. is "Ornate Third Floor Porch, Reached Only By Tiny Window Gives Delicate Touch to Massive Old Yanz-Kranz House," Hastings Gazette 28 Nov. 1963; Dakota County Deed Book 124, page 46; 1910 Federal Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. ~~ Hastings Telephone Company Directory (Hastings: Gazette Printing, 1905). '0 1910 Federal Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. '~ 1910 Federal Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. ~~ « Ornate Third Floor Porch," Has7ings Gazette 28 Nov. 1963. '' Dakota County Deed Book 223, page 23. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Canrmrssion Loco( Designation Project ?OOb' 3 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos The story of the Yanz family, and the Kranz family which followed, echoes that of the Becker, Graus, Fasbender, and other early German-American Hastings families. Natives of New England and New York were the dominant group ofwell-financed early settlers of Hastings, but a number of German-Americans had early success with business ownership. There were 132 German-born individuals residing in the city in 1860; by 1870, the number rose to 308, and another 662 were of German stock. In addition to many laborers, seven brewers, two lumber dealers, seven coopers, and a wheat buyer comprised some of the occupations.Z`~ While many of the city's Yankee businessmen were involved with the grain trade, milling, and banking, Germans invested in businesses related to trades and skills learned in Europe. Groceries, butcher shops, breweries, bakeries, and wagon shops were popular enterprises. By 1904, 9.7 percent of the city's population was Gennan-born, with hundreds of individuals of German descent.zs The period of significance begins in 1882 with Frank Yanz's construction of the building and ends in 1935 with the occupancy of the Knights of Columbus. Recommendations The Yanz-Kranz House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of commerce, German-Americans, and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Study (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance § 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Associated with the city's leading grocery business; Frank Yanz and Peter Kranz were important figures in the city's Gei7nan-American community, and the house is a good example of 1880s Queen-Anne-Style architecture. The building retains a good level of historic integrity, although the lower story of the house retains only a fair level of historic integrity due to alterations to entries and windows. The original surfaces and details at the roofline are intact and retain much of the building's picturesque appearance. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Property Maps ~~ Hildegard B. Jolu~son, "Germans," in The>> Chose Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press), 163; see also Carole Zellie, `Becker-Graus Block Local Designation Nomination Form," June 1999, on file, Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission. '' Johnson, 163. Hastings Heritage l'reservruion Commission Loccrl Designation Project ?I)OS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 Local Designation Nomination Form coos _ - _ F~~- ~. ~~ ~ ; f i' 4TH. ST E ~~ ~ ° ~~ ;~ .~ ~' _~ ~. ~~5 ~ ~~ n. ,i~ (Copyright f~ 211178, Dakota Courm~ 5TH ST E I N^ Source: Dakota County Hnslrfigs Herrtn,;e Preserr~ntion Com~~rission Locr~1 Desrgnntion Project 2005 5 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-048 ~~ ~ i G..L"7Y."1 ~~ ` I ~~ .FYI"-~. I.........._. L- 30 ...... .- ~~ - _~ I i~.. ,., ~ . ~1 ,f9 5 iJ ~ , . ~,1 ~ ~~'.~ ~ ~ ~, ~ I y ~~~ •I.~ ., ~~~ i-_ -•- _ ~_~ ~ ~---- > _ W ~ r ~-~ ,..... A'M ~ 3~ ,~ ~-, ~ ~ ~ ~~ Z i E ~ ~-~ a ~- ~`" I~~~ _ I `HA ~~~~~ .. ST. t7 ~', f- _ ,i 4~, f ~~ ~ rtn, nx 11 `•~ Mnr(s9i ~~:`` ` STltyGS ~ MINN. j ,[,~~J ~ . r, -. I ~~ ..-E ~ .. ~ ~~, .. r" ~ ~~ ~ „~ r I ~.~ I ~ a - i w_-~~ ~' 4S 47 li I ~ e.mo ~r rem ._ y'" S3. _ ,~. ~ _l ~' I j ~ ~~ c~~ - ~ ~ ~ ~~1- . .u . .L 49 ~: Li i ~ r ;`~ 401 Ramsey St., Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1891, Sheet 8 Hastins Kerilage Preseri~ntion Commission Loca( Des•r;natior7 Project ZOQS 6 11 N1ann~sot~ l Histori~~ Sa~iatY July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Yanz-Kranz House, 40 1 Ramsey St., MHS Referral No. 2008-22 10 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance 5 30.10, (D) (5). The Yanz-Kranz House is a large brick building constructed in 1882 in a restrained Queen Anne design. It was built for Frank Yanz, a native of Germany who, with his brother Jacob, operated one of the most important grocery businesses in Hasting during the late nineteenth century. The house is also important for its association with the second owner, Peter Kranz, aGerman- American who, with his brother Nicolas, ran the Kranz Brothers Chicago Meat Market in downtown Hastings. We concur that the Yanz-Kranz House is eligible for local designation in the areas of architecture and commerce. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, a ~~.. ~ _ (! f l~~L~ lJ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 SHPO #: DK-HTC-032 ~ ', r ~ ~ ~ . '~, fi ~ ~ E i ~,,, ~, t r y I t ~ t[~ r r~ r~ F~ ' x s i ~ 2. ~ '~ ~, ~ ~ ' ~~h «~ ~ ~~ ~~~,~ 1~~ rid El•~ ;,, r~ yB a: t ~!'. ._ k~ Looking northwest, 4/10/Ok, Landscape Research LLC Historic Name: Bell-Perkins House SHPO #: DK-HTC-032 Current Name: Address: 220-222 W. 3rd St. Property Type: residential Date of Construction: ca. 1885 Legal _Description Lot 5 Block 11 and West 26 feet of Lot 6 Block 11 Town of Hastings Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32150-060-11 UTM: Zone 15 511494E 4954477N NAD 83 T 115 R 17 Sec 28 SE-NE-NE Recommendation of Eligibility: Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Architecture, Industry and Commerce Description This two-and one-half story double house is located on a residential block at the southwest corner of W. 3rd and Ashland Streets. The building rests on abuff-colored limestone foundation. The truncated hip roof has gabled doi-~ners at each elevation, and all roofs slopes are clad in composition shingles. Each gable end of the dormers is trimmed with a wood sunburst motif and a scroll-sawn vergeboard and a finial. The eaves are trimmed with small wood brackets with fan brackets placed at the corners. The building has an L-plan; there is a modern one-story addition on the rear west elevation. The central entry is flanked by two large single-pane windows that have colored-glass transoms. The exterior is clad in narrow aluminum siding and the attic-story Hastings NerNage Preservalioi~ Co~~~mission Loca( Desrgnation Project 1005 I Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-032 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 gable ends retain patterned wood shingles. Most windows are rectangular and contain one-over- one replacement sash. Each opening is triimned with flat wood millwork. The hip-roofed porch is supported by four Ionic columns that rest on a stuccoed parapet. There is an older double garage, also clad in replacement siding, at the rear of the property. History In 1874 Bell purchased Lot 5 from Susan Short. ~ At this time, the east end of this block of W. 3rd Street was apparently used for lumber storage. During the 1870s, Lots 5 and 6 of Block 11 were owned at various times by Alvah B. Bell and Stephen Gardner. Bell appears to have been the owner of the lot when the present house was constructed some time between 1880 and 1891.2 There were expensive homes to the east on W. 2nd Street, but there was also a noisy sawmilling district centered on Eddy Street between E. 2nd and E. 3rd Streets. The Bell Brothers Sash, Door, Blind and Furniture Company operated on Block 12, one block to the east. Alvah (or Alva) B. Bell (b. 1832) was a native of New York. He arrived in Hastings in 1866 and married Isabel (Belle) Chapman in the same year.3 Trained as a cabinetmaker, he left Hastings briefly to attend Eastman's Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He next worked as a cabinetmaker in Winona and Hastings. In 1870 he joined Bell, Rhodes, and Company at Second and Eddy Streets, and in 1871 he founded A. B. Bell and Company.4 In 1875 he founded Bell Brothers with his brother James (1834-1897), who had previously worked as a painters Their factory, formerly at 3rd and Eddy Streets, dates from 1875.6 The well-equipped plant had a 25- horsepower engine manufactured at the Star Foundry of Hastings. By 1880 the plant employed about 15 workers. In 1875 the Bells also opened a sawmill in Cannon Falls.8 The Bell Brothers Manufacturing Company was described in 1881 as the only furniture manufacturer in Dakota County. The firm also made sash, doors, and blinds. The furniture store and company office were located at W. 3rd and Vermillion Streets. Bell Brothers were also the city's principal undertakers, a standard feature for furniture businesses of the period. The 1880 Federal Census for Ward 3 enumerates Alvah, his wife Isabel Chapman Bell (1841 - 1917), their two daughters, a niece and nephew, and a servant.10 The census-taker did not record a street location, but other heads-of-households known to have lived on W. 3rd in the 1870s, such as Jonas Lambert, were shown in close proximity. However, the 1884 Sanborn map does not ~ Dakota County Deed Book 53, page 2. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Hastings 1884 Sheet 2, and 1891 Sheet 3. ' George E. Warner and Charles M. Foote, History ofDahota Cocmty and the City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Co., 1881), 301. ~ "Business Changes," Hastings Gazette, 16 Jan, 1875. Warner and Foote, 301; Alvah Bell obituary, Hastings Gazette, 5 June 1925. James arrived in Hastings in 1861. He lived at 606 W. 3rd Street. See James Bell obituary, Hastings Gazette 13 Feb. 1897; Mrs. J. R. Bell obituary, Hastings Gazette, 26 April 1902. e Warner and Foote, 281. Ibid, 281. s Hastings Gazette, 17 April 1875; "Hastings: A Pencil Sketch of the Town," Hastings Democrat, 21 July 1892. `' Ibid. 10 Isabel Chapman Bell obituary, Hastings Gazette, 22 Sept. 1917. Hastings Heritage Preservation Canmission Local Designation Projec[ 2008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-032 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 show a building on these lots. The double house appears on the next Sanborn map published in 1891." Alvah Bell retired in 1885, and his brother continued the business until his death in 1897. By 1890, Bell was living in Merriam Park in St. Pau1.12 It appears that the house was rented until 1905, when Alvah Bell sold the property to James Perkins (1854-1912).13 Perkins was a native of Canada who settled on a fat7n in Denmark Township, Washington County prior to living in Hastings. His second wife, Mina Clothier of Demnark, died in 1899 during the birth of her twin daughters, Lucille and Louise. The federal census indicates that in 1910 Perkins was a widower. He had three children, including the twins and a son, Harold; a servant, and three boarders residing in his half of the house (#222).14 He rented the other half (#220). Perkins was a native of Canada and was a partner in Perkins and Cornelison, agricultural dealers and grocers. His partner was John R. Cornelison (1874-1929). Their business was advertised at the "Foot of Vermillion Street."15 At the time of his death he was alderman from the Third Ward and was president of the Hastings Commercial C1ub.16 Discussion and Significance Alvah B. Bell was Hastings' pioneer furniture maker and dealer and his double house is exemplary of the Queen Anne Style as constructed in Hastings in the late 1880s. James V. Perkins, despite considerable personal tragedy, resided here while he established a retail business and was involved in city government and civic organizations. The building's period of significance begins in ca. 1885 with Bell's construction of the building and ends in 1912 with the death of James V. Perkins. After this date the house appears to have been a rental property for a number of years. Recommendations The Bell-Perkins House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of architecture and industry and commerce. These broad contexts are described in the Hustings Historic Contexts Stztdy (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance § 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Alvah Bell was an important figure in the city's 19th-century furniture and lumber businesses. The house is a good example of Queen Anne Style architecture and one of only a few examples of a double house in Hastings. Although clad in aluminum, the building retains a good level of historic integrity with few alterations to openings and exterior millwork trim. ~ 1 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Hastings 1884 Sheet 2, and 1891 Sheet 3. ~~ James Bell obituary, Hastings Gazette, 13 Feb. 1897; Isabel Bell obituary, Hastings Gazette, 23 Sept 1917. ~' Dakota County Deed Book 102, page 144. The Bells were living in St. Paul by 1910. James Perkins obituary, Hash~ngs Democrat 23 May, 1912. 1900 Federal Census, Hastings 3rd Ward, Sheet 3. 14 Mrs. James V. Perkins obituary, August 7, 1878, Hastings Union. ~' 1905 Hastings Telephone Directory, n.p.; James Perkins obituary, 25 May 1912, Hastings Gazette, August 3, 1912. 16 James Perkins obituary, 25 May 1912, Hastings Gazette, August 3, 1912. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Convnrssion Loccrl Desrgnairon Project ?008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-032 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Property Maps r J ~ ~ ~~. ... ~ ~ ND ST W ~ . . O '~ 1 ~ 3 j l t ~ ~ . ,_i ' - r- 77 ~ ~ - ~ a' ~ [~ r, ~ _ ~. _ r l " ~ ~:0.' RD ST,W ~ ~ - .~ ' ' ~ r.-~. ~ ~ ` ~ f~~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ', ~ i `l i: - ~~ ~~ ~ - ~ r }'~ ~ ~ ~, - ~ ~ ~~~rn trtv -'UU;;, UaR ota Counts ~ 220 W. 3rd Street. Source: Dakota County N^ Hastings Heritage Preservaton Cornnrission Loc•cr! 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Hastings Herrtage Presernalion Commission Local Designation Project ZOOS 5 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-032 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 Historic Photo Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Cornnrission Load Designation Project 2008 Bell-Perkins House in ca. 1960 (MHS). ll 1~~f1t1~5~0~3 l Histori~ai Society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation o£ Bell-Perkins House, 220-222 W. 3rd St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2206 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The Bell-Perkins House was constructed ca. 1885 in the Queen Anne style and is a rare example of a double house in which one half was occupied by the owner and the other half was rented to tenants. The property was built for Alvah Bell, a pioneer furniture maker in Hastings who sold the house in 1905 to James Perkins, an agricultural dealer and grocer. In our opinion the Bell- Perkins House is significant in the areas of architecture and commerce, and is therefore a good candidate for local designation. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings foi- taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-tei-~n preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 SHPO #: DK-HTC-165 Historic Name: Elizabeth Graus House Current Name: Date of Construction: ca. 1877 Le al Descri tion: Lot 3 Block 31 Town of Hastin~~s Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32150-030-31 UTM: 15 511911E 4954320N NAD 83 T 115 R 17 Sec 27 SE-NW-NW Recommendation of Eligibility: Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: German-Americans, Architecture, Commerce SHPO #: DK-HTC-165 Address: 308 E. 4th Street Description The Elizabeth Graus House is situated on anorth-facing lot on a residential street between the Yanz-Kranz House and the "stone house" at 312 E. 4th Street (DK-HTC-166). Guardian Angels Catholic Church is one-half block to the west. The simple vernacular house has atwo-story, painted brick main block with aone-story wood-frame, vinyl-clad wing. The gable roof is clad in composition shingles. The north-facing gable end is decorated with sawn wood trim. A modern porch along the wing has three posts supporting a short shed roof. The building rests on a limestone foundation. Window openings on the brick portion have stone lintels and contain one- over-one sash. There is a projecting tripartite bay in the main, north-facing elevation. The main entry is placed in the brick portion, and there are two windows on the main elevation in the wood Hastings Heritage Preseri~alion Conv~iission Loch( Desrg~Tation Project ?lll)S 1 Looking south, 4/10/08, Landscape llesearch LLC; Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-165 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 portion. The 1891 Sanborn shows that there was a porch along the north and east side of the wing. ~ History This house occupies a lot on a block of modest houses, but the immediate neighbor to the west is the stylish large house built by Frank Yanz in 1882 (401 Ramsey Street; DK-HTC-048). After about twenty years of transactions between the original townsite proprietors and various investors, P. Chouteau Jr. et al. sold the property to Anton (or Antoine) Steffen in 1874.2 Steffen sold the property to Elizabeth Graus in 1877.3 The property remained in the Graus family until at least 1927, when Lena Graus Good sold it to J. T. Kenney.4 It remained in the Kenney family until 1983 when it was sold to David Juba.S It was sold to the current owner, Mary Crawmer, in 1985.6 This building appears to have been constructed by Anton Steffen, between 1874 and 1876, or by Elizabeth Graus after 1877. Anton (Antoine) Steffen (b. 1843) was the German-born, older brother of a well-known Hastings resident, Balthazar Steffen (1852-1925). Balthazar, who was born in Wisconsin, was involved in the brewing and hotel businesses and owned several farms in Dakota County. In 1870 Antoine resided with his wife Lizzie (1849-1911) in the city's First Ward, somewhere east of Vermillion Streets His occupation was listed as a carpenter and he also served on the Hastings police force. By 1880 he was a resident of Loreno in Brown County, and by 1890 he was a brewer in Sleepy Eye.10 Census records suggest that if he built a house on this lot it was rented to others. The next owner of the property, Elizabeth Graus (1839-1909), was in residence here by 1895, but it is not certain that she resided here with her children during the late 1870s or 1880s. The house may have been built been as an investment property. Elizabeth Graus was a native of Prussia and an•ived in the U.S. in 1849.~~ She married Wendel Graus (1824-1876) in Hastings in 1859. Graus was a fanner before becoming a brewer. In 1874, he purchased a portion of the Dietrich Becker wagon business at 401-403 Vermillion Street and operated a grocery. Although he died two years later at the age of 52, the business was eventually developed into a large dry goods, lumber, furniture, and hardware operation under his son Michael Graus (1861-1920) and other relatives.' ~ Sanborn Insurance Map, Hastings, 1891 Sheet 8. 'Dakota County Deed Book L-2, 526, May 18, 1874. Dakota County Deed Book S-2, page 411, August 20, 1877. Dakota County Deed Book 177, page 277, March 16 1927. ' Dakota County Deed Book 625, page 151, June 7 1983. 6 Dakota County Deed Book 703, page 944, October 17, 1985. ~ "Venerable Citizen, Early Settler Dies," Hastings Gazette, 8 May 1925; "Hastings Brewery," Hastings Democrat, 23 October 1902. s 1870 Federal Census, Hastings 1st Ward. 9 1870 census; Hastings Gazette, 7 June 1890. ~° 1880 Federal Census, Village of Loreno, Brown County; 1900 Federal Census, Sleepy Eye; Hastings Gazette, 7 June 1890. ~ ~ See "Graus Family Miscellaneous Information," compiled by Robert Olson, 1988, Graus Family File, Hastings Pioneer Room. ~~ See "Becker-Graus Block Local Designation Nomination Fonn" (DK-HTC-10, 1999), on file, Hastings Pioneer Room. Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Locrr! Designcrlion Project 10/78 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-165 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 At the time of Wendel's death in 1876, Elizabeth and seven children, ages seven months to 14 years, were living in Hastings' Second Ward, west of Vermillion Street.13 By 1895, however, Elizabeth was living in the house at 308 E. 4th Street with five of her adult children.14 At the tune of her death in 1909, she resided there with her two daughters, Lala and Lena. Elizabeth (Lala) Graus Good (1874-1938) was a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida at the time of her death. She had worked as a schoolteacher and a bookkeeper for her brother Michael in the Graus Brothers Grocery. Her sister, Wendolen (Lena) Graus (1878-1936) was also a bookkeeper. In 1922, Lala and Lena moved to West Palm Beach.~s Discussion and Significance Elizabeth and Wendel Graus were part of Hastings' first generation of German-Americans who led much of the city's retail and manufacturing trade. Although Wendel did not enter the grocery business until 1874, his Hastings-born children developed the business throughout the 20th century. Anecdotal materials in the Hastings Pioneer room suggest that Elizabeth Graus ran the business after Wendel's death. The Graus House, which Elizabeth may have built after being widowed and where she resided ca. 1895-1909, is an excellent example of a simple vernacular dwelling constructed at the heart of the German-American neighborhood near St. Boniface Church. Although natives of New England and New York were the dominant group of well-financed early settlers of Hastings, a number of German-Americans had early success with business ownership. There were 132 Gelman-born individuals residing in the city in 1860; by 1870, the number rose to 308, and another 662 were of Ger-rnan stock. In addition to many laborers, seven brewers, two ]umber dealers, seven coopers, and a wheat buyer comprised some of the occupations. ~~ Germans typically invested in businesses related to trades and skills learned in Europe. Groceries, butcher shops, breweries, bakeries, and wagon shops were popular enterprises. By 1904, 9.7 percent of the city's population was German-born, with hundreds of individuals of German descent, like the Graus children.~~ The period of significance begins in ca. 1877 with Elizabeth Graus' ownership and ends with her death in 1909. Recommendations The Elizabeth Graus House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of industry and commerce, German-Americans, and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Stz~dy (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance § 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Wendel Graus and Elizabeth Graus were well known in the i3 1875 Minnesota Census, Hastings Ward 2. ~~ 1895 Minnesota Census, Hastings Ward 1. ~' "Sister's Death in Florida Mourned by Graus Family," Hastings Gazette, 1 April 1938. ie Hildegard B. Johnson, "Germans," in They Chose Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press), 163; see also Carole Zellie, "Becker-Graus Block Local Designation Nomination Form," June 1999, on file, Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission. "Johnson, 163. Hastings Heri~nge Preseri~ation Commission Local Designation Project 2008 3 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-165 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 city's German-American community, and the house is a good example of a simple vernacular building from the 1870s. The building retains a good level of historic integrity, despite removal of the porch. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Property Maps ~ ~ ~ I~ ~~ 4TH. T. E ~- -~~ ~ } - ~ ~ ~ ~ 11 ~, ~ ~ ~ ~.. ,~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ - ~.. ~ t' ~ 7 i ~ - c> - r, ^ L r ', ~i ~- Co vri hi L] zuiiS, Gak~~ta Cunt 308 E. 4th Street. Source: Dakota County. N^ Hastings Herrtage Preservation Commission Local Desrgnation Project 2006 4 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 SHPO #: DK-HTC-165 .~ ,~_ ~._ ~ ~s v 4' ST.s,~ ~°`~ ~ ~v~ ~J ri C. xi `r•i -FI ry ~ lll~~~ I ~r _I _ 30 31 = ~ .~ -- I, ? ~ _ f": !=i_ ~~ ~ ,~~~~ ,L,' I rTASTt GS ~I III I' ~ N t((l ~ ~ I ~~ i r11,~, ~ Zr I_~ i ~_ . F ~~ ~ ~ is i ~. ~). ..~ _. , v ~ I ~ r,~ i ~ 't, t il m, L`~ ~ I ~~. I ~ g 8 '--- ~ k I ° i i i i .. f ~~ 46 = ~ ~~ ~ __ 47 I 3 1 48 _ ~~ ~I~ 7~r 'T t . r k ~ L' ~ i l i ~ ~'~ ~ ;~ ^" I n I ~~,, ~ , ~ ;; .. ar ra 7"' ST. ..~. ,.. I ... ~ ............ __.. ~ 4 '' ...__ R ry! I I~ ~ ~.1 U 308 4th Street, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1891, Sheet 8. Hastings Heritage Preseri~alion Con~nris.rion Loc•cr! Designation Project 20QS 5 11 MRnn~sota l His~torf~ai society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation o£ Elizabeth Graus House, 308 E. 4th St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2213 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). Built ca.1877, the Elizabeth Graus House is a vernacular gabled ell brick and wood frame dwelling. Elizabeth Graus was among the first generation of German-Americans to settle in Hastings and establish many of the city's commercial and manufacturing businesses during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Graus operated the grocery business started by her husband Wendel, which eventually became a large dry goods, lumber, furniture, and hardware business. Graus's vernacular brick dwelling was built in the center of Hastings' German-American neighborhood near St. Boniface Church. We concur that the house is eligible for local designation in the areas of commerce and architecture. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, '~,t,~t. e ~Q~.n,~.,f.~-~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Looking suuLL, a 1 U, US, Landscape research LLC. Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not Evaluated Areas of Significance: Architecture and Commerce (pharmacy) Description SHPO #: DK-HTC-234 ~,,, r~ ti ~~ - .~ s , _` `~ ~ra.:~ ~~ ~~~~ t ~. ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~,~ ~, .~ This two-and one-half story house faces east on a stone foundation on a slightly elevated double-lot site on the west side of Vermillion between W. 9th and 10th streets. The red-brick building is awell-executed example of the Georgian Revival Style. Concrete steps lead to the front entry that is sheltered by a full- length porch. Each of the gables in the cross-gabled roof has a full raking cornice. The roof is clad in composition singles and a broad chimney pierces the east roof slope. Stone-trimmed oculi and a pair of stone-trimmed windows are placed in each gable end. All windows, including a group of slender units in the central bay, contain wood, double-hung sash. There are projecting brick-clad, bowed bays at the south, and wood trimmed oriels at the north elevation. Three slender windows are placed in an oriel supported by wood corbels in the central bay above a full front porch. The porch is supported by brick piers and wood columns and has a prominent lnodillioned cornice. The flat roof of the porch deck was Hastings Herilcrge Preservation Connnission Local Designation Project 1005' Looking west, 5/10/08. Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-234 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 originally edged by a low porch rail. A rear entry is sheltered by a small enclosed porch trimmed with corner pilasters. History George P. Martin (1875-1913) and his wife, Mary Baldenweck Martin (1869-1921), purchased the Follett and Heinen Block on Vermillion Street in August of 1908 for $1,800. Martin contracted with Nicholas G. Wagner of Hastings to construct a "two-story veneered brick house" for $6,965. t Hugh Benjamin of Hutchinson plastered the residenceZ and when the family moved into the house in January 1909 the Hastings Gazette observed that the "handsome house was a great addition to the town." 3 George Martin, a mining executive, was born in La Moille, Minnesota in 1875 to German immigrants.4 His wife emigrated from the Alsace-Lorraine region as a young child.5 They lived in Rushford, Minnesota for 14 years before moving to Hastings with their five children: Mary Kathryn, Clementine Eleanore, Alfred P., George P., and Armand. Martin died in 1913 and his wife sold the house to Michael Kitntnes in 1919. She subsequently moved to St. Paul. G Michael J. Kimmes (1880-1970) was the son ofMattias (1843-1925) and Margaret Wagner Kimmes. Natives of Luxembourg, they raised eight children on a farm in Marshan Township. Michael Kimmes married Catherine Molitor (d. 1961) in 1906 in New Trier. He fanned in Marshan in 1910 before purchasing the house on 906 Vermillion Street in 1919. Michael and Catherine Kimmes raised four children in the house: Catherine, Margaret, Theodore (1913-1981) and Marie (1904-1909).s Michael owned the Kimmes and Edberg garage on Vermillion, which sold Ford automobiles. The family moved to Devils Lake, North Dakota in 1925 to manage a Ford dealership. (John) George Sieben (1860-1938) and Helena Kimrn Sieben (1864-1937) tnarried in 1883 and lived on Ramsey Street before purchasing the Kimmes residence in 1925.10 Both George and Helena (Lena) were first-generation Americans raised by German immigrants.~t Their five children were George, Louis, Hart', Gertrude and Stella. George Sieben was a prominent Hastings pharmacist who began his career as an apprentice for George W. Noesen in 1879 and eventually purchased the drugstore in 1883.t' The Sieben Drug business was located at 2nd and Tyler Streets, which Sieben operated until his death in 1938.13 Sieben's son, Hany A. Sieben (1890-1945), received his pharmacy degree in 1911 from the University of Illinois and operated the business after his father's death. Hany and his wife, Irene Buckley Sieben (1897-1982) of Minneapolis, lived at 906 Vermillion until Sieben's death in 1945. Irene Sieben operated the pharmacy ~ Hastings Gazette, 15 August 1908. Hastings Gazette, 21 November 1908. Hastings Gazette, 23 January 1909. ~ Hastings Democrat, 31 July 1913. ' Hastings Gazette, 22 January 1921. v Dakota County Deed Book 156, Page 302. Mortgage October 23, 1922 in Dakota County Deed Book 108, page 337. 1880 Federal Census, Hastings. 1900 Federal Census, Hastings. s 1920 Federal Census, Hastings. Hastings Gazette, 26 August 1921, obituary in Hastings Gazette, 12 March 1970. 10 1910 Federal Census, Hastings. Dakota County Deed Book 175, page 26. ~ ~ 1910 Federal Census, Hastings. George Sieben was born in Illinois and Helena Sieben was born in Minnesota. ~' "Parrot caused problems for Siebens," Hastings Gazette, 14 August 1997. ~' Lucille Hammar rem Doffin Hastin son t1~e Mississi i Hastin s: Hastin s Gazette and Kilenn Hammar rem g g> g PP ( g g Y~ g Printing, 1976), 217-218. Hns7ings Heritage Preservation Cornatission Loca! Deaignrnion Project ZOOS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-234 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 until 1964 when she sold it to Vern Johnson who continued the business until 1977.14 Irene Sieben sold the house on Vermillion to Millett O'Connell in 1983 and the building has since been used as law firm offices. Discussion and Significance In addition to their pharmacy business, the Siebens have been an important political fatnily in Hastings. George Sieben was Mayor in 1902-04 and 1914-16. His son Harry Sr., was the youngest elected mayor in Hastings, serving from 1924-26.15 Harry Sieben was also Democratic convention chair for twenty years.~G Harry Sieben's son, Harry Jr., ran for congress twice and was a member of the Dakota County Legislature from 1971-1984. ~ ~ In addition to its association with the Sieben family, this building is significant for its association with its contractor-builder, Nicholas Wagner. Wagner (1886-1962) was the son of City Hotel proprietors, Nicholas Wagner (1843-1905) and Margaret Kummer Wagner.~s The elder Wagner was trained as a carpenter and likely trained his son in the trade. Nicholas Wagner, Jr. was 22 years old when he completed the Martin house. He moved to Austin, MN in 1911 and operated the Wagner Construction Company with six of his sons.~~ In Hastings, Wagner also remodeled the Guardian Angels Church and completed the Memorial Auditorium at Hastings High Schoo1.20 The period of significance spans the construction by George Martin in 1908 to its sale by Irene Sieben in 1977. Recommendation The Martin-Kimmes-Sieben House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of architecture and commerce. The 1908 building is an excellent example of the Georgian Revival Style, and was constructed for George Martin by Nicholas Wagner, a local builder and contractor. It is also significant for its long-teen association with George and Helena Sieben, who were important in professional and commercial life in Hastings, and their descendants. The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation, and these broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Study (1993). The building exterior retains a high level of historic integrity. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 14 Hastings Gazette, 14 August 1997. The drugstore was razed in 1980. ~' Doffing, 185; Hastings Gazette, 10 August 1945. ~~ Hastings Gazette, 10 August 1945. ~~ Hastings Gazette, 20 January 2000. is Hastings Gazette obituary, 10 Jan. 1905. Margaret Kummer Wagner Schamo obituary in Hastings Gazette, 6 March 1936. ~~ "19th Child of Ex-Hastings Man Graduated in Austin," Hastings Gazette. 23 June 1960. ~0 "Builder of Local Schools Dies," Hastings Gazette, 22 March 1962. Hastings He[-itnge f'reser~~ation Commission Local Designation Projec[ 21108 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-234 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Property Map ;~. `_ ~~ ~~, 9THSTE ~ ~'' .i ~~ 7: t ~ ~~ ~ - ,- ~„ >> _ --~ ..~ ti .ti, L'o Vri ht G :UUE;, Dakota Cuunt~i 906 Vermillion. Source: Dakota County Historic Photo N^ a. `~E' .~ ~~r x~ Y •, ,• .a t` ~~ ~~ `ti ~~~ ~„ ~r > '~ : ~ cx _~,; ~ ~ a., ~ -~. 906 Vermillion Street, 1930 (Minnesota Historical Society) Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Loccrl Designation Pr-~ject ZOOb' 4 1+1nn~sota Histaric~t Society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Martin-Kimmes-Sieben House, 906 Vermillion St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2218 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 5 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). Built in 1908, the Martin-Kimmes-Sieben House is a very well-preserved, 2 '/z -story, wood frame, brick veneer dwelling designed in the Colonial Revival style. The house was built for George Martin, aGerman-American mining executive whose wife Mary sold the house in 1919 to Michael Kimmes after her husband died in 1913. Kimmes and his wife Catherine owned the property from 1919-1925 before selling it to George and Helena Sieben, first generation German Americans. Sieben was a prominent Hastings pharmacist who owned Sieben Drug until his death in 1938, when it was taken over by his son and daughter-in-law. Both George and Harry Sieben have strong political ties in Hastings, George serving twice as mayor and Harry being elected in 1924 as the youngest mayor in the city's history. Therefore, the Martin-Kimmes-Sieben House is an ideal candidate for local designation in the areas of architecture and commerce. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-047 ..,, 807 Vermillion Street, looking southeast 5/29/08. Landscape Research LLC. Historic Name: Dr. Jeremiah and Mary Finch House SHPO #: DK-HTC-047 Current Name: Address: 807 Vermillion Street Property Type: residential Date of Construction: ca. 1875 Legal Description: N 160 feet of Lot 5, Block 1, Herndon's Addition Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32500-051-01 UTM: 15 511712E 4953863N NAD 83 T17 R27 Sec NW-NW-SW Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Commerce (medicine) and Architecture Description This two-story, Italianate Style house occupies a wooded lot at the corner of E. 8th and Vermillion Streets. This lot is near the highest point of Vermillion Avenue as it descends towards the Mississippi River. The original lot of Herndon's Addition occupied the block between E. 8th and E. 9th Streets. It was subdivided for the construction of a dwelling (ca. 1930) located to the south. A limestone rubble wall runs the length of the frontage along Vermillion and E. 8th Street, and stone steps lead from E. 8th Street. There is a small wood-fi•aine shed at the rear of the property that was moved from the Hastings State Hospital. ~ It is clad in drop siding. Owner Paul Swanstrom provided Carole Zellie with information about this and other building featw-es, 5/29/08. Hastings Heritage Preservation Convnission Loca( Designation Project 2/)Q~ Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-047 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 The T-plan building consists of chip-roofed block at the west and agable-roofed east wing. There is also a small one-story shed-roofed wing, formerly a porch, at the south of the wing. The roof is clad in composition shingles and there is a single brick chimney that pierces the hip roof. The building rests on a limestone foundation. The exterior is clad in narrow vinyl siding with wood corner boards and eave trim. Prior to installation of the vinyl siding, the original clapboard siding had been covered by asbestos cement shingles for many years. There is a full porch along the west and north facades. The porch supported by heavy turned posts that rest on simple bases. Decorative spandrels composed of keyhole-motif panels, turned work, and scroll-cut brackets are placed between the posts. The standard rail with balusters is missing. The porch ceiling is bead board, and the deck is wood. The current owner, Paul Swanstrom, says that the trim is historic, but he moved some of the posts to suit the current porch configuration. Most of the windows across the principal facades of the hip-roofed block are very large and contain one-over-one replacetnent sash. The principal windows have cornice moldings at the lintel, and wide decorative casings. The first story windows at the north and west surmount decorative wood panels placed below the sill. These panels were uncovered when the asbestos cement shingles were removed. There are two historic entries on the hip-roofed block. At the west, there is a single-leaf, five- paneled door, and at the east there is a single-leaf modern door. The owner says that there had been an opening for adouble-leaf door on the north elevation. Currently, there is a window at that location that was moved over from a few feet to the west.' This north entry was likely the main entry. The owner has been told that the rear wing of the house was a house moved from Nininger, but there is no further evidence of this. The cun-ent "T" plan is a different configuration than that shown on the 1899 Dakota County Plat Book. History In 1863, Albert J. (1830-1865) and Han-iet (b. 1832) Norton purchased Lot 5 ofBlock 1, Herndon's Addition from W.M. and W.C. Herndon.; Heindon's Addition was platted in 1857.4 Norton, who was a native of Massachusetts, is listed in the 1860 Federal Census as a "Gentleman."5 Han-iet Norton, who was widowed in 1865, owned the property until 1872, when it was sold to Dr. Jeremiah E. Finch.G The Bird's E~~e View of Hastings (1867) shows ahip-roofed house with an entry facing E. 8th Street apparently situated on this parcel.' Such views were not highly accurate, but the bird's eye suggests that the Nortons could have erected a house during their ownership. Finch was more likely the first builder on the site, however. He owned the property until 1903, when he sold it to Patrick H. O'Keefe, who immediately sold it to Benjamin Chamberlain (1854 -1913).s By 1904 there was a large can-iage barn at the rear of the parcel; this building is not shown on the 1899 Dakota County Atlas but is suggested on the 1867 view. ' Information from Paul Swanstrom, 5/29/08. 3 Dakota County Deed Book L, page 462. 4 George E. Warner and Charles M. Foote, History of Dakota Cormt_y and the City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Co., 1881), 272. ' 1860 Federal Census, Town of Hastings. 6 Dakota County Deed Book P2, page 293. ~ Bird's Eye View of Hastings (Chicago: Chicago Lithographing Company, 1867). s Dakota County Deed Book 115, page 449. `r Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Hastings, November 1904, Sheet 7. Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Project ?OOHS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-047 Local Designation Nomination Form aooa Chamberlain was born in Nininger. He and his wife Mary (b. 1864), a native of Ohio, had eight children. He fanned in Renville County prior to moving to Hastings in 1903. Chamberlain listed his occupation in 1900 as a fanner.10 He was a director of the Farmers Elevator Company. ~ ~ The house was rented to two families during the period between Chamberlain's death and the next sale of the house in 1920. Austrian-born Fred and Sophia Mayer and seven children lived in part of the house. Mayer was a tool grinder at the Hudson Manufacturing Company. Their son Christian and his wife Sophia lived in the other part. They had four children.12 Christian Mayer worked at the Gardner Mill. In 1920 Mary sold the house to Johannes K. Nord, who owned it until 1932 when it was purchased at a sheriff's sale by the Dakota County Building Association. Nord was a native of Norway and an agriculture teacher at the Hastings High School.13 Mildred Schmitz purchased the property in 1941.14 Marie Gergen purchased it in 1855. sold Marie A. Gergen.~s Gergen reportedly operated a boarding house for elderly residents. It had a succession of owners during the 1970s and 1980s and was divided into apartments. The present owner, Paul Swanstrom, purchased it in 1999 and completed interior and exterior rehabilitation. iv The building remains in apartment use. Discussion and Significance Jeremiah E. Finch Jeremiah Finch (1829-1919) was a native of Ontario, Canada. He received his medical training in Toronto and an-ived in Hastings in 1856." His first wife Mary (1832-1885) was a native of New York. is Their eldest son, Frank, was born in Canada and their younger son, Albert, was born in Minnesota. Finch served as a surgeon for the Seventh Minnesota Infantry in 1862. He reportedly resigned after the death of his daughter, Flora. ~~ He was an organizer of the Minnesota State Medical Association in 1866 and served as its president in 1878. He was president of the Dakota County Medical Society 1875-1876.'° He was Mayor of Hastings in 1866 and served as President of the Hastings Board of Education 1871-1884. Finch also held various Masonic offices. In 1886 he became a surgeon for the Milwaukee Road, treating the injuries of railroad workers.' ~ The household in 1880 included the Finch family, a boarder who was a clerk in the Finch drugstore, ~~ and two servants.-- 10 1920 Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. ~ ~ 1910 Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. ~' 1920 Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. ~' Dakota County Deed book 153 Page 777, July 7, 1920; 1920 Census, Hastings 2nd Ward. i4 Dakota County Deed Book 209, page 422. ~' Dakota County Deed Book 249, page 609. ~~ Dakota County Document 1578223. ~~"Death of Dr. J. E. Finch," Hastings Gazette, 8 March 1919. is Mary Elizabeth Finch obituary, Hastings Gazette, 30 Jan 1885. 19 Warner and Foote, 307. This accowlt inaccurately states that only one of the Finch children was living. Frank W. was omitted. ~~"History of Medicine in Dakota Cowlty," Minnesota Medicine (December 1940), 113. '~ "A Credible Record," Hastings Gazette, 6 Dec 1902. '~ 1880 U.S. Census, Hastings 1st and 2nd Wards. Hastings Heritage Preserralion Commission Locat Designation Project 20118 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-047 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Dr. Finch was regarded as the "leading practitioner of Hastings."2j He was held in high regard in the state medical association as well as in the local community, where he was also associated with the building he erected and the pharmacy it housed. Following Mary Finch's death, in 1891 he married Sarah Franklin (1835-1922).24 In 1902 the couple moved to Port Rowen, Ontario. At this point, the address of this property was reported as 105 E. 8th Street, near Dr. Henry Van Beeck at 115 E. 8th Street. This seems to confirm that the main entry faced E. 8th Street. Jeremiah E. Finch was the city's first druggist as well as one of its first physicians. One account states that he founded a store in 1860. In 1864 he purchased the stock of A. M. Pett. Finch sold out to Fuller and Langley in 1867, but returned to the drug business in 1869.25 In 1874, Finch purchased the firm of C. P. Fuller and renamed it Finch & Son. He was joined by his son, Frank W. Froin ca. 1866 to 1875 he also owned a drug store in Sauk Center.2~ Other local doctors were also involved in drug and medicine sales, including J. W. Thorne. Thorne's firm, founded in 1878, was the successor to H.W. Ha11.27 In 1880, Finch built the Finch Block at 201 E. 2nd Street (DK-HTC-057, part of E. Second Street NRHP Historic District). The building, which was called in one account "the finest drugstore in the state," featured a "full plate glass front, black walnut and butternut finishing." 23 It had afirst- floorpharmacy with Finch's medical offices on the second floor. The building is clad in St. Louis pressed brick and trimmed with Frontenac stone. The fine sand used in the mortar reportedly came from Chimney Rock.29 Frank W. Finch (1850-1934) operated the store for nearly 60 years and was celebrated as the "Dean of Minnesota Druggists." 30 He lived at 113 W. 8th Street. His first wife was Amelia Bowen (1848-1911). After her death he married Harriet Gardner (1854-1923), a widow from Leonidas, Michigan.31 He was mayor of Hastings in 1912 and Vice President of the First National Bank. His brother, Albert (1866-1933), was a physician in Lackawanna, N.Y. The period of significance of 807 Vermillion St. spans its construction by Jeremiah E. Finch in ca. 1875 to its sale to Patrick H. O'Keefe in 1903. Recommendation The Jeremiah E. and Mary Finch House is recoimnended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of commerce (medicine) and architecture. The building is a good example of post-Civil War Italianate Style architecture in Hastings and occupies a very prominent location at the top of Vermillion Street. The property is significant for its long-term association with Jeremiah E. Finch, a physician of local as well as statewide significance. The Hastings Heritage "Former Resident of Hastings Dies," Hastings Gazette, 3 Feb. 1922. '_4 "Former Resident of Hastings Dies," Hastings Gazette, 3 Feb. 1922. '' See physician clipping file and Finch family clipping file, Hastings Pioneer Room. ~6 Hastings Gazette, 1 May 1875. '~ Hastings: A Pencil Sketch of the Town," Hastings Gazette, 5-15-1880 's "Lifetime Association of Hastings Druggist with City's Oldest Pharmacy," Hastings Gazette, 3 June 1927. "' Ibid. '0 "Veteran Druggist, Here Since 'S6, Celebrates 80th Anniversary," Hastings Gazette, 31 Jan 1931. 'Mrs. F.W. Finch obituary, Hastings Gazette, 19 August 1911. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Conrnrission Locat Des•rgncrdon Project 2008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-047 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Preservation Coininission Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation, and these broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Study (1993). Despite exterior alterations to the porch and siding, it retains a good level of historic integrity. 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Cake e a b e % 'V'R .•.•. ac' I .r ~`t,~ . 807 Vermillion St., Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, November 1904, Sheet 7 Hastings Heritage Preservation Comrnissio» Local Desigruuion Projec[ 2005 7 Nlnn~sc~fa Histc~ri~~i Socie#y July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Dr. Jeremiah and Mary Finch House, 807 Vermillion St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2209 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 5 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance 530.10, (D) (5). The Dr. Jeremiah and Mary Finch House is an Italianate style house dating to ca. 1875. It was likely built for Jeremiah Finch, who served as a surgeon for the Seventh Minnesota Infantry in 1862, helped organize the Minnesota State Medical Association in 1866, was president of the Dakota County Medical Society in 1875-76, and worked as a surgeon for the Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad). Finch was also important for his civic roles in Hastings in local politics, work with the Masons, and service on the board of education. In 1880, Finch built the Finch Block in downtown Hastings, which housed his drugstore on the first floor and medical offices on the second level. The Finch House is an excellent candidate for local designation in the area of commerce for its association with Dr. Jeremiah Finch, and in the area of architecture as a good example of the Italianate style. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, lJ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos ~~; ~ . SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 ~, ~. - ,:~';, ,s ~~ ~ ~~~ ' -.. tW ,- ~~i~~~y; I~ + ' ' ~`~ rs ~~~ ~~ ro Gi+a~, ~,.. : i ~~ ~~~ ~ c ~~ r~ ~ y~rx Looking southeast, 4/10/08. Historic Name: Todd Field SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Current Name: McNamara Stadium at Todd Field Address: Vermillion Street at W. 10`x' Street Property Type: recreational landscape Date of Construction: 1932-1937 Legal Description: Lots 1 through 8 Block 78 Town of Hastings ~ w Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-3215008178 UTM: IS 511581E 4953619N NAD 83 T 115 R17 SEC 28 NE-NE-SE Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Parks and Recreation and the Designed Historic Landscape Description Todd Field occupies aloes-lying, bowl-like area bounded by Vermillion Street (Hwy 61) to the east, W. 10`x' Street to the north and W. 11th Street (Hwy 55) to the south. Ashland Street is at the west end of the parcel. The field is surrounded by a two-foot limestone wall along Vermillion Street and Highway 55. The wall is crowned with afive-foot mesh fence and stone pillars placed 60 feet apart. Stone walls and Hastings Nerrtage Preservation Commission Locn! Desrgnutron Project ZOQ8 I Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos entrance gates are located on W. 10th Street near the stadium entrance. Metal bleachers are located on the north and south sides of the football field, which is turf-covered. A gravel parking lot is located west of the field. West of Ashland Street are tennis courts and an octagonal stone building surrounded by a stone retaining wall. The building rests on a forner well house and was rebuilt as part of the 1991 renovation. In 2000, the stadium underwent a $1 million renovation that included replacing the original concrete bleachers, and constructing an additiona126-foot press box and locker rooms under the bleachers. The stadium capacity is 3,250.` History In 1932, under the direction of Hastings school superintendent Ezra Durbahn, the Hastings School Board purchased two vacant blocks of land in tax forfeiture. The site was bounded by Vermillion (Hwy 61) to the east, West 10"' Street to the north, and West 11th Street (Hwy 55) to the south. The depressed triangular lot, described as a natural amphitheatre, had been an early limestone quarry pit and later a dump.2 The field was named Todd Field after Irving Todd, Jr. donated $500 to the school in honor of his father, Irving Todd, and his long-term dedication as secretary to the Hastings Board of Education.3 The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul (CM&StP) Railroad donated ten carloads of cinders to grade the field, claiming that because "the cinders are coming from a good fast railroad undoubtedly the boys at Hastings will be able to make some good records on the track."~ A concrete curb was designed around the edge of the track and a small bronze plaque that reads "Track, Class of 1932" was attached to the curb at the 50- yard lines During construction of the stadium, Highway 53 (now Highway 55) was paved from Hastings to Pine Bend. In 1934 the Minnesota Highway Department purchased lots to the southwest of the athletic field for the development of a park (Roadside Park) and scenic parkway along Highway 53 from Vermillion to Maple streets. Two lots owned by Adolph Stark (including his house lot) were purchased for $1,850 as well as four lots owned by Ed Husting and one lot belonging to the Zusan Brothers.' The highway beautification plan included parkway grading, stone walls around the stadium, a flag pole base, and stadium seating. The project was funded by $45,000 from the federal government, $500 from the State Highway Department and $750 from the Hastings City Council. In the summer 1934, concrete seating with a capacity of 1,000 was built along the south side of the stadium. A plaque was installed under the south bleachers, reading ``Bleachers, Class of 1934." Atwo- foot limestone wall, with stone donated by the Ray Freitag quarry, was built around the stadium by contractor Gus Johnson. Minneapolis contractor Carl Peterson graded the parkway with 33,000 yards of dirt and 8,000 yards of clay. ` Hastings Gazette, 2 September 2000, 27 January 2000. Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), 253. 3 Hastings Gazette, 7 July 1932. a Hastings Gazette, 15 July 1932. s Hastings Gazette, 31 August 2000. The plaque is in storage. G Hastings Gazette, 19 January 1934. ~ Hastings Gazette, 29 August 1934. Hastings Heritage Preser-~~crtion Comnrission Local Designaliar Pr~ojecl ?/IIIS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Hastings' first football game in the new stadium was against Cannon Falls on November 9, 1934. Hastings Blue and Gold ended the season undefeated and as champions of the Mississippi Valley Conference. In May of 1935 the Hastings Planning Board was formed to supervise parkway construction and placement of the flagpole base and an entrance to the athletic field on West 10`x' Street. Local businessmen supplied funds to complete the stone wall and gateposts after State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) labor was halted in August of 1935. Irving Todd, Jr. donated an additional $1,000 for fencing on top of the stone retaining wall encircling the field. The stadium wall and north side seating received Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds. The City of Hastings extended water mains to the athletic field and park to the west of the stadium. In 1936, safety concerns over crossing Vermillion Street to the Hastings High School, initiated the construction of a pedestrian tunnel under Vermillion. The tunnel was completed with $2,300 donated by local residents; the stone came from the recently demolished Wright and Austin building on the corner of 2nd and Ramsey streets.s Two concrete-paved tennis courts to the west of the stadium were completed in May 1937 through the donation of Colonel Hayden S. Cole, president of the First National Bank. After years of construction, the Roadside Park, tennis courts, Parkway and Todd Field were dedicated on Hastings Appreciation and Dedication Day on May 29, 1937. Mayor H. A. Fasbender`presided as master of ceremonies at the event attended by 2500 people including Irving Todd, Victor Christgau, Minnesota WPA administrator, Harold Olson, engineer in charge of roadside developments, H. C. Theopold, regional WPA administrator and E. A Durbahn, city superintendent of Hastings public schools.9 A plaque reading "Works Progress Administration Project 1937" was attached to the main entrance gate on West 10`x' Street. After the dedication, ownership of Todd Field and tennis courts was handed over to the Hastings School Board. With daytime games limiting attendance, the Hastings Athletic Club, headed by Kenneth H. Eddy, formed in 1939 to manage Todd Field. They initially raised $2,350 to light the field. The lighting contract was awarded to F.C. Bathrick of Hastings and included a 75,000-watt system with ten, 60-foot poles. The lighting dedication ceremony, led by Governor Harold Stassen, introduced the first lighted football game which ended with a win against Stillwater on September 15, 1939.10 The stone seats were replaced by steel bleachers in the 1970s and the pedestrian tunnel under Vermillion Street was closed in 1979. New lights, press box and a new scoreboard were added in 1989 and in 1991 the Minnesota Department of Transportation reconstructed Highway 55, which included replacing the most of the stone wall around the stadium. On September 22, 2000, after a major renovation by Wold Architects, the stadium was rededicated McNamara Stadium at Todd Field in honor of Hastings High School football alumnus, Richard "Pinky" McNamara, who helped raise funds for the $1 million renovation. ~ ~ The renovation included replacing the bleachers, an additional 26-foot press box, and locker rooms under the bleachers.12 s Hastings Gazette, 20 March 1936. ~ Hustings Gazette, 4 June 1937. 10 Hastings Gazette, 15 September 1939. ~ ~ Over the Years: Tales of an Historic Rivertorvn: 1 SO Years of Progress and Pride (Dakota County Historical Society, Vol 48, No. 1, May 2007), 54. ~~ Hastings• Gazette, 2 September 2000, 27 January 2000. Hastings Her-inrge Preservation Conunisaion Loco! Designaliorr Pr•ojecl ?I1 /18 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 Discussion and Significance Works Progress Administration By 1933, unemployment in Minnesota stood 29 per cent statewide, with 70 percent on the Iron Range. 14 million people were unemployed, representing one-fourth of the entire U.S. labor force and 37 percent of the industrial labor force.13 Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs, funds were administered by the federal government in partnership with state and local governments. The Minnesota Department of Highway's newly-formed Roadside Development Division, like the rest of the highway department, became an immediate participant in these programs. The partnership between roadside development and federal work programs was ideal. New Deal work programs were prohibited from competing with private industry and, therefore, could not manufacture, distribute, or sell goods and services. Instead, such programs engaged in work that "would not otherwise be done" such as replacing schools and hospitals, highway grading and paving, laying sewers and sidewalks, modernizing bridges and culverts, conserving soil and forests, and building roadside parks and scenic overlooks.14 Highway construction and roadside development were well-suited for the programs because they generally required large numbers of relatively unskilled workers who could be used with little advance training. Such labor-intensive work often meant that most of a project's costs went directly for wages, rather_than to purchase materials._Roadside development projects like those in Hastings also fit the New Deal's emphasis on public parks and other recreational facilities. Outdoor recreation and physical activity were seen by New Deal proponents as positive, healthy, leisure-tune activities that would help the country overcome the feelings of despair and hopelessness that the Depression had caused. The development of the Todd Field stadium was an ideal candidate for these funds and was one of many WPA roadside projects in Minnesota.~s Irving Todd The Todd family provided significant backing for the project. Irving Todd (1841-1921) moved with his family fi•oin Westchester County, New York to Prescott, Wisconsin in 1857. His father, Joseph Todd, purchased an interest in a sawmill in Wisconsin, but Irving apprenticed early as a newspaper typesetter.~G After editorial stints with the Minnesota Conserver, Prescott Journal and Hudson Star, Todd purchased the Hastings Conserver in 1862. Todd consolidated his paper with Columbus Stebbins' and his paper, The Independent, to form the Hastings Gazette in November 1866." Todd eventually purchased the paper from Stebbins in 1878 and incorporated the publishing company, Irving Todd and Son, in 1887.~s The Hastings Gazette is one of Minnesota's oldest newspapers. Todd was one of the original incorporators of the Dakota County Building Association in 1881 and served as secretary of the Hastings School Board for 32 years (1883-1902).~~ Todd was also collector of ~' "Historic Roadside Deveeopment Structures on Minensota Turnk Highways." Prepared by Gemini Research for Mn/DOT, December 1988, Section 3.13. 14 Gemini Research, Section 3.14. ~' Gemini Research, Section 3.14. ~~ "hying Todd, Dean of Minnesota Editors and Prominent in Masonic Circles, Passes Away," Hastings Gazette, 21 October 1921. ~ ~ George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History of Dakota Cocwty and the City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing, 1881), 319. is Marquis, Albert Nelson, The Book ofMinnesotans (Chicago: A.N. Marquis, 1907), 515. ~`~ Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, ed., History of Dakota and Goodhue Cotn~ties, Minnesota (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, 1910), 258. Hastings Heritage Preser~~crlion Commission Loccr! Designallon Project 2l)oS 4 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 internal revenue in St. Paul from 1872 to 1876 and played an important part in Minnesota's Republican party eventually serving as Doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 1867-68 session in Washington.20 Todd married Helen Lucas in 1865 and had two children, Irving and Louise. The family resided at 309 West Seventh Street in Hastings. Irving Todd Jr. Irving Todd, Jr. (1866-1964) published the Hastings Gazette after his father's death in 1921 and sold the paper in 1931. He founded the Hastings Telephone Company in 1898 and remained president for 50 years. Todd served as Hastings City Clerk from 1892 to 1895 and was on the boards of the Dakota County Savings and Loan and the First National Bank of Hastings.21 Todd was past president of the Hastings Commercial Club and was named Hastings first Eminent Citizen in 1946.22 Todd's philanthropy in Hastings was unsurpassed, including a $10,000 donation for the new city library the year of his death. Todd married Bertha Harnish of Hastings in 1906. She founded the Hastings Woman's Club in 1911 and served on the board until her death in 1963. The couple had no children. Recommendation The McNamara Stadium at Todd Field is recommended as eligible for local designation in the areas of parks and recreation and the designed historic landscape. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Context Study (1993). The Hastings Preservation Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specified cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Todd Field's designers adapted the stadium design to a low-lying area and used resources of the Works Project Administration for construction. It is also significant for its association with publishing pioneer Irving Todd and his family. The period of significance spans the date of construction in 1934 to the dedication in 1937. Because of replacement of the original stone walls and concrete seating, the masonry component of the site retains a low level of historic integrity, but the field space and setting retain a good level of integrity. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 20 "Irving Todd, Dean of Editors, Dies," St. Paarl Pioneer Press, 14 October 1921. ~~ Over tJre Years: Tales of an Historic Rivertorvn: 150 Years of Progress and Pride (Dakota County Historical Society, vol 48, No. 1, May 2007), 11. -~ "Irving Todd Dies at 98; Editor, Phone Founder," Hastings Gazette, 29 October 1964 Hastings Herim;e Preseri~ation Canmission Loca! Designation Project 2005 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos Property Map ,: i ~ ~ Y '~ ,, ~ R„ ~ K~ ... _ ~ 3 , S ~ `, i!I yy ... L?'... ~ F.... ' ,~ ~ ~ Q_ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~~ '. ~ 3 A j Y ( ~ ~ S 3 J i ~. ~ ~ ~~` ~ ti .J r--~ ~ P ~ 3 J ~ ' ~' ` ~- r; ~ R4 ~ '~, Source: Dakota County Historic Photo Hastings Heritage Presen~ation Cammrssion Loco( Desigi~alion Project ZQOS 6 Todd Field concrete bleachers and stone wall, 9/23/1936 (MHS) Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-236 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Y: ~ ~ ~ # ~'fi,~^,~~' ~ l~s~P~~~ I ~ ~fi~ ~}". Y y vJ`~ }l.a ~ s i t ~ ", ~1 f ~ ~w^~` fill ~: ~ ~ ~~2~ ~ `~ ~^~I' . Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Commission Local Designation Projec7 20118 Todd Field, looking north, 11/5/1937 (MHS) ll Minnesota 1 Histc~rica~ Societ~+ July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Todd Field, Vermillion Street at W. 10`h St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2219 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 5 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). Todd Field is aloes-lying, bowl-like area that contains aturf-covered football field. Flanking the field on two sides are bleachers that date to 2000, and surrounding the field is atwo-foot-high limestone wall crowned with afive-foot mesh fence that was constructed in 1991. New lights, a press box, and a new scoreboard were added to the field in 1989. Another press box and locker rooms under the bleachers were installed in 2000. Although Todd Field has historic associations with local boosters and the Works Progress Administration, the loss of the original concrete bleachers, the replacement of the original stone wall surrounding the field, and the addition of the press boxes has seriously compromised the overall integrity of the site. The cumulative impact of these alterations to the built features of the athletic complex has resulted in a severe change of character to the site. As a result, it is our opinion that Todd Field does not qualify for local designation. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, ~jt,,c,G. ~ ~ M~.Q.c~- Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 SHPO #: DK-HTC-131 } ~ ,,'; ~,'~ ¢. 3 f ~ ~ t ~y~+~~ ~% yy f ' ss yr~ ~E3 is -.,.yam z`~I sh ~ t ~ `~ ~*. ~ . =, ~ i ~~~ . ~~ ~mr: _: ~ .y~z: Historic Name: H. D. Hudson Manufacturing Company SHPO #: DK-HTC-131 Current Name: Address: 200 W. 2nd Street Property Type: industrial Date of Construction: 1914 Legal Description: Lots 7-9 Block 6 Town of Hastings Property Identification Number (PIN): 9-32150-090-06 UTM: 15 511555E 4954640N NAD 83 T115 Rl7 Sec 27 NW-NW-NW Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Requires further evaluation Areas of Significance: Industry and Agriculture, Architecture Description The Hudson Manufacturing Company occupies a block bordered by the Mississippi River at the north, the Hastings Bridge at the east, Lock and Dain Road at the west, and W. 2nd Street at the south. The site is paved, with the exception of a small parcel planted with mature trees on the south elevation. The south- facing main building of the manufacturing plant (1914) has a U-shaped plan and is clad in tan brick. The first story is fenestrated with a series of evenly spaced, arched six-over-six wood windows with brick lintels. The second story is fenestrated with flat window openings to the west and arched openings on the east wing. The gable roof has astanding-seam metal roof and nine aluminum ventilators across the ridges. The cornice has wood brackets with beadboard soffits. There are brick, concrete and metal building Hustings NerNage Preser~~alion Commission Local Designation Project ?008 Lookingnurrli«c.i. ~ InnX,LandscnpeRc~r:urh I I t Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-131 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos additions at the east, west, and north elevations. The 48,000 s.f. metal building to the northwest was added in 1974. ~ History This site was first occupied by the Stowell Lumber Mill. Hammon Stowell, an Ohio native and uncle of William G. LeDuc, arrived in Hastings in 1855 and built the first steam mill on the Mississippi north of Winona.2 R. C. Libbey acquired the mill in 1874 and rebuilt it as the R. C. Libbey Lumber Mill. The area between Vermillion, W. 2nd, and Eddy Streets was the center of the city's 19th-century lumber industry, and included the Libbey firm, the Libbey and Thompson Planing Mill, and the Bell Brothers furniture factory. The site was destroyed in an 1899 fire. In 1906, Herbert Hudson and Miles Thurber purchased the Brandt Manufacturing Company of Chicago City. Hudson & Thurber Company was located in Minneapolis at 414-18 3rd Avenue North and specialized in agricultural implement sales.3 The company owned the Minneapolis Tubular Well and Supply Company in Minneapolis and the R. Herschel Manufacturing Company in Peoria, Illinois.4 Following the printing of its first agricultural supply catalog in 1906, the company became the largest fanning supply company in Minnesota. In 1909 the Hudson & Thurber Company moved its compression faun sprayer company into an existing building on the Libbey mill site. The factory, bearing the Brandt name, was housed in a two-story building and had four employees.s A fire destroyed the factory in 1913 and the first wing of the present brick structure was built the same year. This was a period of company expansion; they purchased the DeFrees Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis (1913), the Pence Automobile Company of Minneapolis (1914) and the Kegler Manufacturing Company of Waterloo (1915). In 1914, the company issued two catalogs: their first barn implement catalog and Catalog D, which advertised pumps, well supplies, and compressed air sprayers made in Hastings.G Herbert Hudson purchased Miles Thurbei's share of the business in 1917 and renamed the firm as the H. D. Hudson Company. Another name change took place in 1921 to the Hudson Manufacturing Company. In 1921 the second wing of the factory was completed. Hudson's manufacturing buyouts continued at a rapid pace and included the purchase of American Culver Company of Albert Lea (1918), Western Steel and Iron Works ofDePere (1919), Pull-Easy Manufacturing (garden implements) of Waukesha (1919), Nelson Manufacturing (tank heaters) of Deerfield, (1920), Strickler Hay Tool of Janesville (1920), C. A. Libbey (barn equipment) of Oshkosh (1925), Davis-Hanson Pump Company of Oshkosh (1926), Albert Lea Sprayer Company (1927), Owatonna Metal Products (1927) and Warnock Company (sheet metal) of Sioux City.s ~ See March 17, 1985 Hastings Star Gazette Industry Section for a drawing of the plan. George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History of Dakota Coennv and the City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Co., 1881), 277. Stowell's steam engine was procured from Mount Vernon, Ohio, the home of many of Mary E. LeDuc's relatives. Stowell later moved to Northfield where he owned a mill. It appears that Stowell was residing in Hastings before the LeDucs moved to the Vermillion River from St. Paul. 3 In 1906 the company office moved to 308-14 3rd Avenue North in the Minneapolis warehouse district. H.D. Hodson Manufacturing Company 1905-2005 (Chicago: The H. D. Hudson Company, 2005), 6. Hudson purchased Minneapolis Tabular Well in 1903 and R. Herschel in 1905. Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and ICilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), 277; Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Hastings 1910, Sheet 2. 6 Ibid, 14. ~ Ibid, 16; Sanborn Fire Insw-ance Map, Hastings 1924, Sheet 2. s Ibid, 14-20. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Commission Loco( Designcrlion Project ZI)OS' Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-131 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos By this tune, the Hudson Manufacturing Company was producing metal barns, lawn mowers, pumps, hay equipment, garden tools, anchors, stanchions, poultry equipment and sprayers. In 1927, the company moved the headquarters from Minneapolis to the McCormick Building in Chicago, but maintained sales offices in Minneapolis as well as establishing new ones in San Francisco and Atlanta. Throughout the 1920s the Hastings factory was producing 90 percent of the agricultural sprayers and dusters sold in the country~0 and additions to the factory included beautification of the grounds in 1921 and an addition in 1927. Hudson's brother, Roy C. Hudson, was a salesman for the Hastings plant in 1938 when he died from an accidental fall from the railing of the Gardner Hotel in Hastings. ~ ~ In the 1940s the Hastings factory concentrated on producing sprayers for the armed forces.~Z Herbert Hudson died in 1943 and his brother, Robert C. Hudson, was elected president of the company. In 1965 Herbert Hudson, Jr. was elected president of the company which remains family-owned today. Additions were constructed in 1966 and again in 1974 for the Hastings factory. In 1976, there were snore than 500 employees at the Hastings factory and other Hudson factories were located in Minneapolis; Rockford, Illinois; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Overland Park, Kansas, and Ravenna, Ohio.13 Herbert D. Hudson Herbert DaVince Hudson (1861-1943) was born in 1861 on a farm in Ganges Township, Michigan. His grandfather, Pollard Hudson, was one of the early pioneers in Michigan settling a farm near Battle Creek, Michigan in 1837.14 Hudson began his career in Milwaukee as an implement dealer for Milwaukee Harvester Company. He and his wife, Adelia, had one daughter and three sons.~s Hudson moved his family to Minneapolis in 1905 after he purchased Minneapolis Tubular Well and Supply Company. With Miles Thurber, Hudson purchased the R. Herschel Manufacturing Company and formed the agricultural supply company of Hudson and Thurber. The firm was located at 414 3rd Avenue N. in Minneapolis. Hudson bought Thurber's shares in the company in 1917 and renamed the firm as the H. D. Hudson Company. Hudson lived in Minneapolis until he moved the company headquarters to Chicago in 1929.~G His sons continued to run the business after his death in 1943. Indztstry in Hastings in the 20th Cer~tzuy Hastings' ]ate 19th-century economy was founded on grain, lumber, and agricultural trade and related banking activity. The Con-Agra mill on the Vermillion River at Highway 61, still in operation, is the successor to the city's earliest mill founded by Harrison H. Graham in 1853-54. There is little remaining evidence of the city's other 19th-century industries; the Hastings Foundry, later Star Iron Works (1859) at 707 E. 1st Street is a notable building survivor. The early 20th century saw the birth of several new manufacturing firms. The Stroud Humphrey Manufacturing Company was the successor to Star Iron Works, and after 1905 manufactured marine gas engines, faun engines, and pumps. The Ralph Brownson Company, in operation from 1915 to 1954, began as a manufacturer of feed baskets and horse collars and ~ Ibid, 20-23. 10 Hastings Gazette, 10 May 2001. ~ ~ Hastings Gazette, 25 March 1938. ~' H.D. Hudson Manufacturing Company 1905-2005, 23. ~' Doffing, 277. 14 Marion D. Shutter, History of tVJinneapolis• (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923), vol 3, 770. ~' 1910 and 1920 Federal Census, Minneapolis. ~~ "H.D. Hudson, Founder and President of Manufacturing, Died Sunday," Hastings Gazette, 26 March 1943. Hrtstingr Herita;e Presernntion Commission Loca! Designation Project ?I)Ilb' Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-131 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos evolved into pre-cut house production, and the C.A. Lund Ski Factory was in operation between 1927 and 1945. ~~ Most notably, the Smead Manufacturing Company, which began as a producer of bandless filing envelopes, was founded in 1906. The Finn remains based in Hastings and has an international trade. is The H. D. Hudson Manufacturing Co. is a significant survivor of this group of 20th-century industries, and remains in business at its original location. Recommendation The H. D. Hudson Manufacturing Company building (1914-1927) is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of industry and agriculture and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Context Study (1993). The Hastings Preservation Commission Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specified cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. The Hudson Manufacturing Company has been in continuous operation at this location since 1909 and is exemplary of manufacturing firms that grew in Hastings after the 19th-century grain and lumber era. The building components dating from 1914-1927 represent awell- conserved example of a manufacturing plant of the period. The 1914-1927 building retains a good level of historic integrity. The Phase I and II Cultural Resource Investigation Report for CSAH 42 Corridor notes that the property is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places due to the multiple additions that damage _ integrity, but additional evaluation may revise this finding.i~ Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 ~~ Carole Zellie, Hastings Historic Contexts Study. (Submitted to the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission, July 1993), 17. is Ibid.; http://smead.com. ~ ~ Phase I mid 11 Cultrn~al Resource Investigation along the CSAH 42 Corridor (from County Road 87 to TH 61). Submitted by BRW, Inc. to the Dakota County Highway Department, 1995. 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Designcnion Project Zoll~S 7 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form Zooa Historic Photos SHPO #: DK-HTC-131 ~ ~~; ~ 4t~~ ~ ~t1b1 ~~~~~ ~~ ~:- '~~ - , ~_ - ;~. -- Hudson Manufacturing Company, looking northwest, in ca. 1925 (MHS) Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Project ?OOS 8 t~~nttesota Historical Society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: H.D. Hudson Manufacturing Company, 200 W. 2"d St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2211 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The H.D. Hudson Manufacturing Company is a large, two-story brick industrial building located adjacent to the Mississippi River and the Hastings Bridge. The building was built in two phases in 1913 and 1921. Hudson Manufacturing has ties to the Hudson & Thurber Company, an agricultural implement business located in Minneapolis that by 1906 was the largest farming supply company in Minnesota. The Hastings facility manufactured compressed air sprayers and during the 1920's it produced nearly all of the agricultural sprayers and dusters sold in the United States. As such, the H.D. Hudson Manufacturing Company is an ideal candidate for local designation in the area of commerce. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, ~jt~-dam ~. ~ ~.1: ~L,~.,Q.a.<~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Historic Name: Dr. Llewellyn D. and Katherine Peck House Current Name: Property Type: residential Date of Construction: 1910 SHPO #: DK-HTC-040 SHPO #: DK-HTC-040 Address: PP Legal Description: South 97 feet of Lot 7 and 8 Block 41 Original Town of Hastings Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32150080-41 UTM: 15 5114337E 4954030N NAD 83 T115 R17 Sec 28 SW-SE-NE Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Commerce (medicine) and Architecture Description This two and one-half story, Classical Revival Style house is located on the northwest coiner of W. 7th and Ashland Streets. The wood frame building has nan-ow clapboard siding and rests on a foundation that is concrete-parged. The flared hip roof and prominent gabled dormers are clad in green composition shingles. Each gable end is accented with three rectangular windows an-anged in a Palladian motif. All windows contain wood, double-hung sash, including tripartite bays at each elevation. The front facade faces south and has afull-front, screened porch car-ied by Doric columns. There is also aflat-roofed Hastings Heritage Preservation Contnussion Local Designation Project ?008 402 W. 7th Street, looking northeast 3/10/08. Landscape Research LLC. Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-040 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 sunroom at the east elevation. There are two brick chimneys; the one on the west roof slope has a decorative flared cap. The garage is located to the northwest of the house and has a peaked roof clad in cotnposition shingles and wood siding. Fencing along the perimeter of the property appears to be of recent date. History After completing his tnedical training at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Llewellyn Dwight Peck (1877- 1947), originally of Rochester, moved to Hastings and opened a family practice. In 1904, Peck married Katherine Fasbender (1879-1970), daughter of Peter Fasbender and sister of Dr. Herman A. Fasbender of Hastings. The Pecks purchased a lot with a small existing house frotn the family of dairyman Charles LeVesconte in 1910. They lived in the house at 402 West 7th St. while the larger house was being constructed at the front of the parcel. ~ The building was cotnpleted in 1911 at a cost of $ 5,000. The Pecks raised two children here: Llewellyn Raymond and Bernice. The property was sold to Thomas Raymond Soleiin in 1971 after Katherine's death. The current owners, Bill and Jackie Boler, purchased the house in 1997 and received a 2006 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission award for preservation of the Classical Revival Style house.2 Discussion and Significance Llewellyn D. Peck, M.D Peck practiced medicine in Hastings for 45 years and while he was described as a "country doctor" he also worked to advance medicine and promote the welfare of Hastings.; In 1924, he opened the Fasbender-Peck Hospital at 121 E. 2nd Street and eventually owned the St. Francis Hospital with his son Lewellyn Raymond. The St. Francis Hospital started in the home of Francis Kruger on East Eighth Street in 1935 and moved to a now-razed house at the southeast corner of 3rd and Eddy streets the following year. Peck was the chief physician in the hospital and in 1941 connected the neighboring house with a total of twenty-five beds.4 In 1941, the hospital advertised an $800 sterilizer, new surgery room, heated baths, oxygen tent, laboratory, X-rays and a nursery.s Peck was a member of the American Medical Association and was president of the Dakota County Medical Association for a number of years. Dut-ing WW I, Peck was medical examiner of Dakota County during a serious influenza outbreak.G For the entirety of his practice, Peck served as the local physician for the river division of the CM&StP Railroad (Milwaukee Road). In this and other capacities he seems to have picked up where Dr. Jeremiah E. Finch left off. Finch, who arrived in Hastings in 1856, closed his practice in ca. 1901 (see local designation form for 807 Vermillion Street, 2008). ~ Dakota County Deed Book 129, p 39. Mortgage from Dakota County Building Association, Dakota County Deed Book 82, 240. Hastings Democrat, 17 June 1909. "Living History: Bolers' Work to Preserve House Wins Award," Hastings Star Gazette, 27 April 2006. ' "Dr. L.D. Peck, Hastings Surgeon, Passes Away," Hastings Gazette, 11 July 1947. ~ Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), 167. The St. Francis Hospital closed in 1957 and was later converted into an apartment house. ' "St. Francis Hospital Doubles Capacity," Hastings Gazette, 1 August 1941. a Hastings Gazette, 11 July 1947. Ibid. Hcrstings Heritage Preseri~alion Conrrnission Loca/ Designation Project ZOQb Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-040 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Peck was an important civic leader in Hastings, serving as Mayor in 1938-40.s During his tenure he advocated for construction of gas lines into the city. Katherine Peck taught in the Hastings public school system and Llewellyn served on the school board for a number of years.10 Peck's son, Llewellyn Raymond Peck, also became a prominent Hastings physician and continued his father's practice in the St. Francis Hospital. ~ ~ The Pecks were members of the Guardian Angels Church and are buried in the Guardian Angels Cemetery. Hastings Hospitals Peck's effort to develop hospitals in early 20th-century Hastings preceded the opening of Regina Memorial Hospital in 1953. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, hospitals in small towns such as Hastings were typically owned and operated by local physicians. They typically occupied large houses rather than specially designed facilities. The Hope Sanitarium, in the former Van Dyke-Libbey residence at 612 Vermillion, for example, was opened in 1914 especially for patients with "nervous diseases" or rheumatism. The Latto Hospital operated in the former Rudolph Latto residence at 620 Ramsey Street from ca. 1914 to 1931.1z The period of significance for the Peck House is 1910 to 1970, spanning the construction through the death of Katherine Peck. Recommendation The Llewellyn D. and Katherine Peck House is recommended as eligible for local designation by the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC). It is significant in the areas of commerce (smedicine) and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Context Study (1993). The Hastings Preservation Commission Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specified cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Llewellyn Peck was the city's leading physician (ca. 1904-1949) and was associated with the development of several early hospitals including St. Francis and St. Raphael. The house is an excellent exatnple of the turn of the century Classical Revival Style, and retains the companion garage. Both buildings retain a good level of exterior historic integrity. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 s Doffing, p. 185. ~ Hastings Gazette, 11 July 1947. 10 "Mrs. Katherine Peck, From Pioneer Family Died Sat," Hastings Gazette, 23 July 1970. ~ ~ Who's Who in Minnesota (Minneapolis: Minnesota Editorial Association, 1941) ~' Carole Zellie, Hastings Historic Contexts Study (Submitted to the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission, July 1993). 30-31. Hastins Heritage Preservation Convnission Loccrf Designation Project ?008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-040 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos Property Maps ~, -~, f ~ ~ - _ ~ --~~ C-==.~ ° ~ r~ ;~ ~ ~ ~ {~ ~ ~~ ~~ ;. i W, 7th Strcet --~~--- Co ri ht O 1uU~, Gakota l.uurrtti - ~ -" ' r 402 W. 7th St. Source: Dakota County _ ~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~ k ~ ' i ~' ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ N^ Hastings Heritage Preser~~ation ConTrnission Loco! Designation Project 2008 4 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-040 I5 ~___ J L_ ~~ ...,__ , ~ r ~'_- <6 ~;~1 i~'sJ~'= ., .~ ; ~ ,~ _~ ___~ ~ _J ~L,~ r~:e.:., 25~. 2 ~:~x..no3 ~ ,.., -~ JbYfA^iS w. aT~ sT. E~' HASTINGS -- T MINN. ~~ - I _~ Se 9 :.~ -~_ ; --. i ~_~_ ~. _ ~ J ®~ <. ~.r s ~ , ~T.._.......... - ~ ., ._. I __.. f~ ~ ~~~ I ~a~- ~" ~ LJ i ..o.~ .r :r... r 4 ~ e z i t ~ ~ ---- ~,~ Z i c~ d ~ ~ J ~ 9 z Q ~- ~l t s s r --~ ~ ~ f ~- rt _._. _. _ ~_ a~ -i . .~ , I ,p ~ L_-_~_ .._.. ~ .~. _... ~~ " :,~ ~ 3a ~`~ ~ ~- J a I 6 ~~I~' L:J ~ ~ i _~' ~~ ti~~ I ~ ~~ u' ~i~.~. ._ i s " ,~ . ~~~J~; W. 7T" 5T- 9 1 --- - n~ ~, ~~ ~ ~~ -~~ ~l ~ _. ~~ 49 is LJ ~~ .. 2.., - ~ ...~ x. Jai ~ga.~__._ ,_ '~=~-- - - 402 W. 7th St., Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1951, Sheet 6 Hns[ings Heritage Preseriu~tion Convnissron Loco! Desig~~ation Project ZIAIS 5 ll l+~~nrt~sot~ l Hisl:ori~a Society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Dr. Llewellyn D. & Katherine Peck House, 402 W. 7"' St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2207 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). Built in 1910, the Dr. Llewellyn D. and Katherine Peck House is a good example of a Classical Revival style residence. The property was built for Llewellyn Peck, arguably the most prominent physician in Hastings during the first half of the twentieth century, who also played a major role in the development of two hospitals in the city, and was an important civic leader. For these reasons, the Peck House is an ideal candidate for local designation. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, .~~" ~--~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos x~ :~. f.~s Looking southeast, 4/10/08, Landscape Kesearch LLC SHPO #: DK-HTC-146 Historic Name: Barbaras-Brandenburger House SHPO #: DK-HTC-146 Current Name: Address: 204 W. 3rd St. Property Type: residential Date of Construction: ca. 1894 yLe~al Descri~tion~E 36' of Lot_7 Block 11 and all of Lot 8 Block 11 Town of Hastings ~^~ ~~ Property Identification Number (PIN) 1 9-321 50-080-1 1 UTM: 15511510E 495447N NAD 83 T115 R17 S28 SE-NE-NE Recommendation of Eligibility: Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not Evaluated Areas of Significance: Architecture, Industry and Commerce Description The Barbaras-Brandenburger House is situated on coiner lot on a residential block with only two other houses. The two- and one-half story building faces south and rests on a limestone foundation. The hip-and gable-roofed building has an asymmetrical plan with the main entry placed at the southwest corner. There are two-story projecting bays at the east and west elevations, and agable-roofed, two-story wing at the north. The roofs are clad in composition shingles. The Queen Anne Style exterior is clad in asbestos cement shingles. A variety of window sizes and shapes are placed on the main elevation, including arched, single-pane lights in the gable end and at the entry, and athree-part window in the main facade. Has7ins Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Project 20/lS Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-146 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 There is a stnall, flat-roofed porch at the entry with awood-shingled roof, single turned wood post and a wrought iron railing. The main central chimney pierces the hip roof and has a flared cap. There is a modern hip-roofed garage at the rear of the lot. History In 1876 John Dudley purchased Lots 7 and 8 of Block 11, apparently for lumber storage. ~ Although surrounded by expensive homes to the east on W. 2nd Street, the block immediately to the south across Eddy Street was the Bell Brothers Sash, Door, Blind and Furniture, and Dudley's lumber company was to the southeast on Block 21.2 This was at the edge of an industrial district; R. C. Libby's Sawmill and sash and blind factory occupied portions of W. 2nd Street blocks on Eddy Street. George Barbaras (1832-1905) purchased two lots from Paul Dudley in 1894.3 He erected his dwelling and resided here with his second wife Elizabeth (Lizzie) Van Slyke Barbaras (1848-1908). George Barbaras was president of the German American Bank of Hastings, which he was involved in founding in 1882. Barbaras was a native of Alsace and was educated in France and Germany. He arrived in the United States in 1847, and in Hastings in 1869. He was elected justice of the peace in Hastings and served four years. He was admitted to the bar in 1874.4 In addition to banking, he was involved in real estate and built the Masonic Block, which housed the bank. Barbaras was Mayor of Hastings in 1876-77.5 Barbaras had two daughters, Alma and Julia, with his first wife, Harriet Vandawarker Barbaras (1831- 1908). She remained in the family's 1226 Vermillion Street house after their divorce. Barbaras married Elizabeth Van Slyke in 1892. Alma married John Peter Brandenburger (1855-1926). He was a native of Luxembourg who arrived in the United States in 1878 (the naive is also spelled Brandenbourger).s His family in 1900 included Alma and three children. At that trine they lived on Tyler Street. Alma's sister, Julia Barbaras, was also in the household. After Elizabeth Van Slyke Barbaras' death in 1908, the Brandenburger family next occupied the W. 3rd Street house. In 1888, Peter Brandenburger opened a men's clothing store on Vet-~nillion Street. He was last in partnership Thomas J. Griffin. By 1910, Peter was a cigar salesman. In 1920, the family included sons Karl (26) and Albert (23) and also had two boarders in residence. By 1930, Alma was living with her daughter, Han-iet Wilson, and Harriet's family in International Falls.10 The property remained in the Brandenburger family until 1944, when it was sold to John Pasch by Alma's daughter, Han-iet Wilson. ~ ~ ~ Dakota County Deed Book N-2, page 342. ' Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, Hastings March 1884, Sheet 2. 'Dakota County Deed Book 92, page 364. George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History of Dakota County and the City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Co., 1881), 301. ' Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), 184. e Hastings• Democrat, 2 Jan. 1908. ~ Hastings Gazette, 16 April 1892. s 1910 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 3. ~ Hastings Democrat, 21 July 1892; 4 March 1895. 10 1930 Federal Census, International Falls Second Ward, Koochiching County. ~ ~ Dakota County Deed Book 173, page 244. Has7ings Heritage Preser-rrdion Coznmiasion Locrrt Designraion Projec! 2(108 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-146 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Discussion and Significance George Barbaras was one of Hastings' leading German-American citizens. This position was secured by his founding the German American bank in 1882. He arrived in Hastings just as German immigration was increasing; by 1870, the number of German-born residents rose to 308.12 While most Germans invested in businesses related to trades and skills learned in Europe such as groceries, butcher shops, breweries, bakeries, and wagon shops, Barbaras was in competition with the leading institutions owned by Yankees such as John Thorne. Barbaras' banking interests began with founding of the German American Bank of Hastings in 1882. Claus M. Dittman served as president; William G. Hagelnan, vice-president; and Barbaras was cashier. Barbaras owned and built the Masonic Block (1882) that housed the bank. He sold his shares to the Union Investment Company of Minneapolis in 1904. The building's period of significance begins in ca. 1895 with George Barbaras' construction of the building and ends in 1905 with his death. Recommendations The Barbaras-Brandenburger House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of architecture and industry and commerce. These broad contexts are described in the Hustings Historic Contexts Study (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance ~ 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. George Barbaras was a leading figure in the city's German-American community, a founder and officer of the German-American Bank, and a local financier. The house is a good example of Queen Anne Style architecture. Despite replacement siding, the building retains a good level of historic integrity with few alterations to principal facades and exterior millwork trim. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 N^ i~Hildegard B. Johnson, "Germans," in Thev Chose Hinnesota (St. Paul Minnesota Historical Society Press), 163. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Commission Local Designation Project 100c~ Source: Dakota Co. Real Estate lnquiry Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form coos SHPO #: DK-HTC-146 A/" /y/ i s r i s , p i 7 I ..~ i I it LEVEE °R W.ls7 ',, 5T. 1` - d... I ICy. ~' ~~. ~ I I co'' b ~,~ .~It ~J . I _ "`J ' ~3• i- ,.., ~ S -, ~-,_ .. ~ ~ ,..~ -~ .~~5 ~ w ..~ ,..~ .~. __ 6 _ _.. ;, __~ ;~ , .- ~ ~J I ~ ~ :~ I ,:n ; c,~ ;i ^e ~ 5 I~ ~ J I ~ ~~ i i~ :~ R,~e.. 3 Avnn'1P9B HASTfNGS ___ ~~.., _. - ~ .. .s` _._. 1 ,. M [.Sb E N e 5 z ` r s ~ ¢ L; y o i w d a P 4 . ~ N ~`i 'S W 8 10 7l ~~ -~~ ~ ~ ~~~~ J~. ~~~ ~. - ~___,x;_ __ ., l '°' Eb 'f7~ J I T ` I . II ~ ~ I ~~~ ~~~ ~ ~ ~ F~ : t l J ~ ~ I { .. ~~; L~' ~' ,~ ' ~. ~~u~., ~•..._ _: ~ za _ r I ~; ~, ~~ a .. `~ W.4T" ~ S7. ~'°~~,n. ___ 72 u z O J 4 f~:l r ~ I ~ 'r ~ . € ~° ~ ~+~ ~ ~.'' ~ ,~ , _ _ ~ ~~~ ~, ~~ E ; ,~~~~; i :, F Cpu _ l~.. _... ~ E ~ ~. .....J e LElsd o .. \ok .! p.i. ..., •1 end 204 W. 3rd St., Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1898, Sheet 3. Hastings Herita;e Presen~crliorr Commission Local Designation Project ZIJOS 4 lvlinrl~s~ta Historic So~cie#~ July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Barbaras-Brandenburger House, 204 W.3`d St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2212 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage .. _. Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The Barbaras-Brandenburger House was built ca.1894 in a restrained Queen Anne style. The house was built for George Barbaras, a prominent Hastings resident of German ancestry who helped found the German American Bank of Hastings, owned and built the Masonic Block (1882) that housed the bank, and served as mayor in 1876-77. The Barbaras-Brandenburger House is eligible for local designation in the area of commerce. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to .locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos 700 W SHPO #: DK-HTC-195 - ~- ..y .~- ~~~ _ ~. 6th Street, looking east, 3/10/08. Landscape Research LLC. Historic Name: Jacob and Catherine Hiniker House SHPO #: DK-HTC-195 Current Name: Address: 700 W. 6th Street Property Type: residential Date of Construction: 1911 Legal Description: Block 31 Lots 19 and 20 Addition 13 Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32150-020-031 UTM: 15 510 829E 4954142N NAD 83 T115 R17 Sec 28 NW-SW-NE Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Architecture, Commerce and Industry Description This vernacular house faces south and is situated at the northwest corner of W. 6th and Pine Streets. The gable-roofed, two-story building is clad in wood siding and has a single window in the front gable. The eaves are slightly flared and the roof is covered with composition shingles. The structure rests on a buff limestone foundation and concrete steps lead to the offset front door. The open front porch has wood columns that rest on a wood rail and apron. The windows contain double-hung, one-over-one replacement sash. At the main facade, there are tripartite windows at the first story and a pair of windows at the second story. A projecting south dor-rner has a shed roof. A large porch at the north elevation appears to be a recent addition. The one-and-one-half story, frame bam is located to the northwest of the house. The entrance faces Pine Street and is accessed by a driveway from Pine Street. The gable-roofed building is clad in composition shingles. A band of multi-paned windows lines the south elevation at the eave line and there is a service door and three windows on the first level. There are also small windows in the gable ends. Hastings Heritage Preserration Corrunission Local Designation Project 2005 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-195 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos History Jacob Hiniker (1863-1945) purchased lots 16-20 of Block 31 from the widow of Theodore Refstrup in 1911.' It appears that Hiniker immediately erected this house and barn; the Hastings Democrat reported on August 17, 1911 that Charles Erickson had the contract for Hiniker's "new residence on 6th Street." 2 Jacob was the son of Hastings fanner and businessman, Peter Hiniker, and his wife, Theresa Brochman, who emigrated separately from Luxembourg and raised six children. Hiniker graduated from the Minneapolis Business College.3 In 1888 he purchased the Etter Grain Elevator. The elevator was destroyed by fire in 1892.4 Hiniker incorporated the Diamond Starch Company, on East 1st Street, in 1889 with Peter Doffing and Peter Marschall.s He joined the Hastings Malting Company in 1893 as the first secretary, and listed his occupation as a grain dealer in 1900. The Hastings Malting Company reincorporated in 1906 and listed Hiniker as secretary of the board of directors. Hiniker next served as president of the Hastings Malting Company from 1911 until his death in 1945. Jacob Hiniker's wedding ceremony with Catherine Niedere in 1893 was the first held in the new St. Boniface Catholic Church.g The Hinikers raised five children in this house: Maria, Cecilia, James, Mildred (Wieners) and Florence (Hughes). Catherine Hiniker remained in the house until her death in 1971 and her son, James, sold the house to Lynne and Denny McNamara in 1982.10 Discussion and Significance Hastings Malting Company Jacob Hiniker is associated with several significant agricultural and grain businesses in Hastings, most notably the Hastings Malting Company. This firm was organized in l 885 by "entirely German citizens."~ ~ The first Board of Directors included Louis Niedere, George Barbaras, William G. Hageman, F. L. Busch, Rudolph Latto, and Peter Doffing. Jacob Hiniker joined the board as secretary in 1893. ~' Although German-speaking, the original board members were from diverse homelands, including France, Luxembourg, and Prussia. Following the general collapse of the Minnesota wheat economy and Hastings' dependence on wheat shipment, diversification into other grains such as barley was sought by the firm's organizers. The brick ~ Dakota County Deed Book 131, page 412. ' "Town Topics," Hastn~gs Democrat, 17 Aug 1911, 2. See also 24 August 1911, 2. 3 Henry A. Castle, Minnesota: its Story and Biography (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1915), 1573. 4 Hastings Gazette, 19 March 1892; Castle, 1573. Hastings Gazette, May 1889. a Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), 84; and 1900 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 2. Ibid, 84. s "Funeral of Jacob Hiniker Held Saturday," Hastings Gazette, 16 November 1945. ~ "Funeral Services for Mrs. Jacob Hiniker, Area Pioneer, Today," Hastings Gazette, 28 October 1971. 10 "Tennis Court and Architectural Columns Distinguished this House," Hastings Star Gazette, 12 February 1998. ~ ~ George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History of Dakota Coimt_v and the Cit>> of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing, 1881), 282. ~~ Hastings Gazette, 16 November 1945. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Commission Local Designation Projec[ 21IOb' Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-195 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos malt house was an imposing, three-story structure measuring 60 x 120-foot, with a central elevator tower and a cornice decorated with prominent brick corbels.13 In 1906 the company reincorporated with Hiniker's father-in-law, Louis Niedere, as president. Jacob Hiniker was secretary and in-laws Henry Niedere and Mary Niedere were on the board as well as Jacob's brother, Peter Hiniker. Louis Niedere died in 1911 and Hiniker was president of the company until his death in 1945. This firm served the brewing industry; during prohibition it was converted to a feed mill.14 Jacob Hiniker's brother, Peter, was president of the company until his death in 1949.15 Jacob's son, James, managed the company until 1953 when he sold the buildings to Harold Stenson and Jerome Rohr for a Purina Chow business.~~ The building was demolished in 1966.r' Recommendation The Jacob and Catherine Hiniker House is recoimnended as eligible for local designation by the Hastings Preservation Commission (HPC). It is significant in the areas of industry and commerce, and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Study (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance §30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. This property is significant as awell-conserved example of aturn-of--the-century vernacular dwelling and exceptionally well-conserved barn, and for its association with Jacob Hiniker and his association with the Hastings Malting Company. The house and barn retain a good level of historic integrity: Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Historic Map ~^ 700 W. 6th Street. Source: D~ko[a County Property Inquiry ~' "Hastings Malting Company," The News Ern, 15 Dec. 1885, n.p. ~~ Carole Zellie, Hastings Historic Contexts Study. (Submitted to the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission, July 1993), 14. ~' Has•tings Gazette, 4 March 1949. ~~ "Hastings Malting Building Sold to Three Local Men," Hastings Gazette, 8 January 1954. ~' Doffing, 85. Hastings Herilcrge Preseri~alion C'onvnission Loccrl Designation Project ZOOS' 3 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Historic Photo .~n_ w.T ,.~. ~~~.6 ~ ~' - _ .. ^~~~ #~ ,.H ~~'v . ~~ _ a~ ~ • ... i ~ ' _ c. ' I t ~ ~ ~ ` 'Y ~' Y ",~.. r'~ -'~, tom'^~i'~4' 44' ~` ~ x .W ~~»~~- I SHPO #: DK-HTC-195 HasNn,~s Heritage Preseri~ation Gomntission Loco! Designation Project 2008 4 Hastings Malting Company (1885), in ca. lySU, looking southeast (MHS). ~~nttesvt~ Hi~tc~rit~i Satiety July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation o£ Joseph and Catherine Hiniker House, 700 W. 6'h St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2215 Thank you for the opportunity to corriment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance 5 30.10, (D) (5). The Jacob and Catherine Hiniker House is atwo-story, gable fronted, wood frame building constructed in 1911. Located behind the house is a 1 %Z -story, gable roofed frame barn. Jacob Hiniker is associated with several significant agricultural and grain businesses in Hastings, in particular the Hastings Malting Company, for which he served as president from 1911 until his death in 1945. Hiniker's significant role in the grain businesses makes both the house and barn eligible for local designation in the areas of commerce and architecture. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, ~~ ~ ~ ~ P L lJ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-046 ~~ t ,,~ >- ~ ~ _ - s ~ p,; ~, ~, .. w 1, ~ ~ ~. ,~ r ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ _~, ,; 5 ~.: h_ ~_ A _ r ~ :'.~ ~ ,, try >rt; '~.' ~ i .i . , ~ µ ,.~ } S + 1 f L' ~'. 1007 Sibley Street, looking; Fast, 4/10/~~~, L:uul.raju~ R~'.~~arch LLCf Historic Name: Charles A. and Hilda Hanson House SHPO #: DK-HTC-046 Current Name: Sloniger-Harff House Address: 1007 Sibley Street Property Type: residential Date of Construction: 1899 Legal Description: Lot 11 Block 7 except the S 18 feet and all of Lot 12 Block 7 Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-13200-123-071 UTM: 15 511804E 4953741N NAD 83 T 115 R17 Sec 27 SW-NW-SW Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not evaluated Areas of Significance: Commerce, Architecture Description This three-story Queen Anne Style house is located mid-block on Sibley Street between East 10th and 11th Streets on an elevated site. The building faces west and rests on a concrete foundation. Most windows contain double-hung, one-over-one wood sash. The house has an expansive gable roof with a raking cornice and full pediment. A broad brick chimney rises from the north roof slope. Aconical-roofed corner tui7-et is placed in the northwestern coiner and recessed balconies are located in the north and east Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Commission Loc•a! Desigr7ation Project 2005 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-046 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos gables. Gable-roofed dormers project from the north and south roof slopes. The influence of the popular Classical Revival Style is evident in the curved, wa•ap-around porch carried by Ionic columns and a wood railing above a wood lattice apron. The front steps are concrete and the front entrance is recessed. The date of construction, 1899, is expressed on plaques on either side of the center, second-floor window. The modem two-car garage has clapboard siding and is placed to the northwest of the house. History Charles August Hanson (1860-1935) emigrated with his family to Red Wing from Smaland, Sweden in 1870. He followed his older brother to Hastings in 1883 and married Hilda Erickson (1860-1923) of Hastings on November 3, 1884. The Erickson family emigrated from Sweden to Hastings in 1870.2 The Hansons lived at 903 East 9th Street until they purchased two lots on Vermillion Street in 1899. Construction began on the 18-room Queen Anne Style house at the coiner of Vermillion and 9th Streets in April 1899. W. W. Stuart was the contractor and Hilda Hanson's father, L. F. Erickson, completed the masonry.3 The Hanson family, now including eight children moved into the house in 1900.4 Six children lived to adulthood: Harry (1888-1903), Florence Hanson Sloninger (1890-1981), Karl L. (1892-1952), Roy C. (1885-1965), George D. (b. 1899), and Alma Marie Hanson Harff (1896-1970).5 The building's interior finishes were described in 1966 as ornate and included an octagonal room with open beamwork and bookshelves with a carved "H." All rooms were paneled with oak and Georgia pine, and scenes were painted on the walls. Some rooms were separated with latticework and sliding doors.G Hilda Hanson died in 1923 and Charles Hanson died in 1935. The family continued to own and reside in the house until 1966 when the Hanson daughters, Florence Hanson Sloniger and Alma Hanson Harff, sold the property to the Hastings School Board for a parking lot. Leslie Loran Sloniger had been superintendent of the Hastings school district and Arthur Harff was on the school board. The Slonigers and Harffs lived in the house together and rented rooms to schoolteachers. Subsequently, Robert Schafer, a Hastings teacher, purchased the house from Earl Graus and in 1966 moved the house two blocks west to Sibley Street. Schafer sold the house to Art and Edna Siebenaler in 1967.$ Discussion and Significance Hanson Brothers Grocery This property is associated with an important grocery business in Hastings that operated for more than 70 years. In 1882, Charles Hanson's older brother, John P. Hanson (1851-1934), moved to Hastings to start a grocery business on Second Street with his brother-in-law, Gust Lillyblad, under the name of Lillyblad ~ "Charles Hanson, Pioneer Merchant, Citizen Dies," Hastings Herald, 1 March 1935. ' "Mrs. C.A. Hanson Esteemed Resident of City, Summoned," Has7ings Gazette, 27 July 1923. ' Hastings Daily Gazette, 21 April 1899. 4 Hastings Daily Gazette, 24 January 1900. ' Hastings Herald, 1 March 1935. e Hastings Gazette, 28 July 1966. ~ "Neighbors Protest Having 15-Room House Moved In," Hastings Gazette, 23 June 1966; "City Gives Grudging Consent on House Move," Hastings Gazette, 14 July 1966; "Victorian Mansion Takes a 2-Block Ride," Hastings Gazette, 4 August 1966. s "Twenty-two Room House Nearly Lost in 1965," Hastings Star Gazette, 28 May 1998. Hastings Heritage Preseri~ation Conunission Loca! Designation Project 2/1118 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-046 Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos and Hanson. Charles arrived in 1883, and in 1886 the brothers built a new grocery at the corner of Second and Vermillion streets under the name, Hanson Brothers Grocery. The two lots were purchased from O.T. Hays for $2,700.° The new store was built by W. W. Stuart for $7,000; it was the first in Hastings to have electric lighting. ~ ~ "Charlie" and John ran the Hanson Brothers grocery together for 52 years and developed the reputation for- "honesty and fair-dealing."" The store sold everything from groceries to nails to sewing machines, but refused to sell liquor.13 The brothers were life-long members of the Swedish Lutheran Church (Our Saviour's Lutheran Church) in Hastings and the Hastings Gazette reported that "few appreciated the innumerable appeals for aid and the unfailing faith of this kindly business firm."14 Charles Hanson was elected alderman in 1907 and 1913, and also served as secretary and treasurer- of the fire department.~s John died in 1934 and Charles sold the business to John's son-in-law, Russell Swanson, who maintained the company name.~~ The building burned in 1938, but "Hanson Brothers" was rebuilt with Eddy's Pharmacy at the same location. The one-story building was razed in 1951 for High Bridge construction and moved to 109 E. Second Street. The grocery closed in 1960, ending the 77-seven year reign of the Hanson Brothers business in Hastings.~~ Recommendation The Charles and Hilda Hanson House is r-ecornrnended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of cornrner-ce and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Study (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Grocer Charles Hanson was an important business owner as well as a figure in the city's Swedish-American community, and the house is an excellent example of the Queen Anne Style. The period of significance spans the 1899 date of construction through Charles Hanson's death in 1935. Despite its relocation in 1966, the building retains an excellent level of historic integrity. Prepa-•ed for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 9 Franklyn Curtis-Wedge, Histot~~ ofDalcota and Goodhue Counties, Minnesota (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, 1910), p. 508. 10 Hastings Gazette, 10 April 1886. ~ ~ "Brother in Grocery Business Here Since 1882, Still Find Pleasure in Work; Have Had Few Vacations," Hastings Gazette, 13 December 1929. ~~ "C. A. Hanson, Revered Civic Leader, Pioneer Merchant, is Summoned," Hastings Gazette, 1 March 1935. ~' "C. A. Hanson, Revered Civic Leader, Pioneer Merchant, is Summoned," Hastings Gazette, 1 March 1935 and "Pioneer Grocery Firm Passes 52°`~ Anniversary Still Serving Patrons," Hastings Gazette, 2 February 1934. ~~ "Passing of John Hanson, Pioneer Merchant, Felt Keenly Throughout City," Hastings Gazette 4 May 1934 and "Who is He?," Hastings Gazette 3 March, 1933. ~' Curtis-Wedge, 263. 1 e Hastings Herald, 1 March 1935 ~~ Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and ICilenny: Hammargren Printing. 1976), 74-75. Hasring.r Heritage Preservation Gomnrission Local Designation Project 2008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Property Map Historic Photo -~._ .. ti-: , ~: .. -- x'~R ~+. ~~~ oa .~._ SHPO #: DK-HTC-046 Hastings Heritage Presernation Commission Loch( Designation Project 2008 4 Source:.Dakota Co. Real Estate Inquiry 1007 Sibley Street in previous location, ca. 1960 (?). (MHS) ?- l~llnrt~sota Histori~~i So~ietY July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Charles A. and Hilda Hanson House, 1007 Sibley St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2208 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The Charles and Hilda Hanson House was built in 1899 in the Queen Anne style with elements of the Classical Revival displayed in the curved, wrap-around porch. The house was constructed for Charles Hanson who, with his brother John, established the Hanson Brothers Grocery business, which operated for over 70 years from 1886 to 1960. The Hanson House is eligible for local designation due to its significance in the areas of architecture and commerce. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form zoos SHPO #: DK-HTC-323 ~~}._ -- II1 E. 3rd Street, lOOkln~ nr~rthc,i~~. I an~l~ca~u kc,r.irili I I Historic Name: Hastings National Bank; Northwestern National Bank SHPO #: DK-HTC-323 Current Name: Hastings Chamber of Commerce Address: 111 E. 3rd Street Property Type: residential Date of Construction: 1957 Legal Description: Portions of Lot 6 and 7 Block 13 Town of Hastings ~w~ Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-3215007013 UTM: 15 51 1703 5954477N NAD 83 Recommendation of Eligibility Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Requires additional evaluation Areas of Significance: Commerce, Architecture Description This two-story, flat-roofed bank is located on the southeast corner of E. 3rd and Vermillion Streets was completed in 1957. The brushed aluminum double-leaf doors at the main entrance at the west are placed in a curved bay. A second lower-level entrance to the north is accessed at the alley. The exterior is clad in yellow and beige Hebron brick laid in vertical strips and grey Modur stone at the coping, base and west wall panel. A row of windows divided by canted plastered piers is placed west of the entrance. The wall to the east of the entrance has one square window with a coved red granite surround and decorative brick panel above the window. There is a square, wall-mounted clock near the parapet in the entry bay. A Hastings Herilcrge Pr-esers~atior7 Commission Local Designation Prgject Zllllb' Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-323 Local Designation Nomination Form aooa flagpole is located near the corner entrance. Adrive-in alley and metal canopy are located on the north elevation. The Hastings Chamber of Commerce cur•ently occupies the building. History The Hastings National Bank, which was succeeded at this location by the Northwestern National Bank of Hastings, originally incorporated as the German American Bank in March of 1882. The bank occupied the Masonic Block (1881) at 3rd and Sibley Streets. The first officers were Rudolph Latto, president; William G. Hageinan, vice-president; and George Barbaras, cashier. ~ Barbaras was the owner of the Masonic Block. The bank directors consisted of prominent German citizens of Hastings including Latto, Barbaras, Hageman, Dittman, and Herman Teszmann and J. C. Bettinger.Z The original capital was $25,000 and the charter ran for 25 years. Among the founders was George Barbaras (1832-1905), who was from the predominantly German- speaking Alsace region of France. He arrived in the United States in 1832, and in Hastings in 1869. Barbaras opened a "general collection business" and insurance agency, and also acted as a justice of the peace.3 He was admitted to the bar in June 1874 by Judge Charles Crosby.4 He was the assistant cashier in the Farmer's and Trader's bank for four years before founding the German-American Bank, which he operated for 22 years. He served as alderman for two years (1874-75) and Mayor of Hastings for two years (1877-78).' In 1885 he was a founding member of the board of directors for the Hastings Malting Company.G In Febiua~y of 1904, George Barbaras sold his stock to F. H. Wellcotne's Union Investment Company and the bank moved to the Peter Doffing Building on E. Second Street.' The bank charter was renewed in 1907, and two years later the bank moved to the New York Store Building at Second and Sibley Streets.s In 1909 the officers were F. H. Wellcome, president; Theodore Cook, vice-president; and N. B. Gergen, cashier. The directors were E. A. Whitford, Peter Doffing and Charles Doffing. Deposits totaled $325,593.82. Responding to a wave of anti-German sentiment following the outbreak of WW I, the bank was renamed Hastings National Bank on July 26, 1918.10 The new name was announced when the bank joined the Federal Reserve System. ~ ~ On February 11, 1957, the Hastings National Bank opened the doors of its new building at the coiner of E. 3rd and Vermillion streets. Previously, a house stood on this site. The bank was designed by A. ~ "German American Bank," The News Era, 15 Dec. 1885, n.p. ' Lucille Hammargren Doffing, Hastings on the Mississippi (Hastings: Hastings Gazette and Kilenny: Hammargren Printing, 1976), 216. 3 "German American Bank," The News Ern, 15 Dec. 1885, n.p. Warner and Foote, 301. ' Ibid. e Doffing, 84. ~ This building was razed in 1950 for the new High Bridge. s High winds on October 10, 1949 severely damaged the New York Store Building and the third floor was removed. `~ Franklyn Curtis-Wedge, ed. History of Dakota and Goodhue Cocmties, Minnesota (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, 1910), 283. 10 NortMa~estern Bcrnk: A Bicentennial History (The Bank: Hastings, Minn.), 1976. ~ ~ Hastings Gazette, 3 August 1918. Hastings Heritage Preservation Conrnri.rsion Local Designcrlion Prgject 3006 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-323 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Moorman and Company of Minneapolis. This firm specialized in small bank design throughout the Midwest. Graus Construction of Hastings erected the building, and construction costs were estimated at $166,000.12 The modern facility advertised the latest in banking convenience and provided room for eleven staff members. The first floor entrance led to the tellers' cages, bookkeeping, vault and the loan department. The lower-level entrance accessed the insurance and installment loan department, safety deposit box vault, rest rooms and community room. The night depository was located at the entrance of the lower leve1.13 The board of directors in 1957 included some of Hastings most prominent businessmen: Orin J. Samstad, director, Ben J. Bahls, president (implement dealer), Millett V. O'Connell (attorney), Albert A. Jacobsen (hardware dealer), John Oys (Hudson Manufacturing Co) and Kenneth Eddy (pharmacist). Assets were $3,700,000.14 In 1961 Northwestern National Bank of Hastings purchased the bank. This organization opened a branch in Westview Mall in 1977 and a building across the mall in 1981. The system was renamed Norwest Banks in 1982 and the bank at 111 E. 3rd Street was vacated in 1987. Bank presidents: 1882 C.M. Dittman 1883-1891 Rudolph Latto 1891-1900 George Barbaras 1900-1901 Rudolph Latto 1901-1902 William Thompson 1902-1903 Peter Doffing 1903-1905 E.A. Whitford 1905-1920 F. H. Wellcome 1920-1934 Theodore Albrecht 1934-1938 L.P. Kingston 1938-1947 Theodore Cook 1947-1961 Benjamin J. Bahls 1961-1967 Theodore Cook 1967-1969 Bernard Engels 1969-1980 Richard Pikes Discussion and Significance Banking in Hastings The German American Bank opened about 25 years after the founding of Hastings' earliest banking institutions. As in other pioneer settlements, banking operated inconsistently and usually as private firms. The first private bank in Hastings was opened in 1856 by John L. and Edward C. Thorne and Lewis S. Follett. Two other private banks, Ennis and Plant, and Darling, Carswell and Scheffer, began operation in 1857. Thorne, Follett, and Thorne became Thorne and Follett in 1858, and added a partner, Jacob Rennick, in 1861 when they incorporated with a capital of $25,000. ~' The firm was started by Albert Moorman, a German immigrant, who died in 1927. The practice was continued by sons, Frank and Albert, and operated into the 1970s. ~' "Hastings National Bank to Open New Building," Hastings Gazette, 7 February 1957. i4 "Bank has 75 Year History: Makes 4'~' City Move," Hastings Gazette, 7 February 1957. ~' Northwesterl7 Bank: Bicentennial Histot~~ (Hastings: The Bank, 1976). Has7ings Heritage Preseri~crtion Cornrnission Loccrl Designation Project 1008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-323 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos In 1863, John Thorne established Thor-ne's Bank, a private institution, which was merged into the Merchant's National Bank in 1865. This business moved to Minneapolis in 1874. In 1872, brothers Byron Howes, F. C. Howes and G. W. Howes opened the Fanners' and Traders' Bank. Two years later the Dakota County Bank was incorporated by R.J. Marvin as president and J.C. Novlin as cashier. ~~ While most of these early banking attempts were short-lived, the First National Bank of Hastings was organized in 1864 at 21 E. Second Street by Stephen and A.W. Gardner and remains the second oldest National Bank in Minnesota. Bank directors in 1881 included Stephen Gardner, Theodore Gardner, A.W. Gardner, Lewis Follett, Denis Follett, John C. Meloy and S. W. Mairs. The bank remains at its second location on the corner of Vermillion and Second streets. The Dakota County Building Association incorporated in 1881 to offer residential loans and continues today as the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Hastings. ~~ Discussion and Significance The corporate history of this bank and its early connection with Hastings' German-American community is of interest. However, the institution that built the current building, the Hastings National Bank, and its survival through the Depression and World War II are also significant in the city's modern banking history. At the time of the Hastings National Bank organization, its chief local competitor was the First National Bank. Such small town banks in agricultural areas such as Dakota County differed from their- Twin Cities counterparts in significant ways. Most of their business was based on customer- deposits rather than commercial banking; this would have included farmers' surplus cash. Many small banks, which had high overhead compared to large banks, developed sidelines such as insurance, real estate, and faun mortgages. In agricultural areas the seasonal deposit cycle had significant swings tied to crop production. rs Home mortgages were an important part of business; in the 1920s, home ownership for all classes was a national campaign supported by federal programs. Mortgage banking in this period intersected well with the professionalization of the real estate industry, although newspapers did not cant' the constant stream of home-building advice featured in many metropolitan newspapers. The national "Own Your Own Home" campaign was launched by the U.S. Department of Labor. Advertising included slogans about the importance of thrift and the perils of renting, illustrating that ownership of a modest home was possible for many. In 1920, the Better Homes in America Movement was led by then- Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and it spawned a variety of Better Homes demonstrations, all intended to increase homeownership and improve the building stockr~ This institution survived the uncertainty of the 1930s following the stock rnar-ket crash in 1929. While the crash did not trigger an irnrnediate panic, the "nation and state moved toward real panic in 1933."'0 Bank failures, foreclosures, dwindling savings, drought, depressed agricultural prices, unemployment, and labor unrest were among Minnesota's woes.' Some local banks took immediate measures in the fall of 1932. National bank reforms followed such bank holidays, including the amendment of the Federal Reserve ~~ George E. Warner and Chas. M. Foote, History of Dakota County and fire City of Hastings (Minneapolis: North Star- Publishing, 1881), 283. r' Doffing, 231. rs R. A. Stevenson, A Type Study of American Banking: Nonmebropo(itan Banks in Minnesota (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn, 1934), 14. ~~ Carole Zellie, "Residential Real Estate Development in St. Paul: 1880-1950," Historic Context Study submitted to the St. Paul Heritage Preservation Commission by Landscape Research, 2001), 19. ~0 Theodore C. Blegen, Minnesota: A History of tlae State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963), 525. '~ Ibid. Hastings Herilcrge Preservation Commission Loccr( Designation Project ?008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-323 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 Act, which provided for federal deposit insurance.zz When the new bank building opened in 1957, the American economy was enjoying a period of post-war prosperity. The Hastings National Bank was in direct competition with the First National Bank of Hastings, and two other small banks, the State Bank of Hampton and the Vermilion State Bank.23 With its community meeting room and other modern features, the building program reflected the demands of customers and their automobiles, and the modern exterior reflected the streamlined designs of the period. The period of significance is 1957 to 1961, corresponding to the construction of the building and the initial occupancy of the Hastings National Bank prior to its acquisition by Northwestern National Bank. Recommendation The Hastings National Bank is recommended as eligible for local designation as a contributing property in the existing E. 2nd Street Historic District. It is significant in the areas of commerce and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Context Study (1993). The Hastings Preservation Ordinance Section 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. The Hastings National Bank represents a unique and well-conserved example of post-World War II architecture in Hastings and is also significant for its association with an early Hastings institution, the German American Bank and its successor film, the Hastings National Bank. The building exterior retains a good level of historic integrity. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Amy Lucas, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 Property Map ° 2ND ~T f~ - ~ I l ~ f ~II~ ~. ~ a^ ~ i :: ,_.hh____ I~nlh__~ h~ ~ ~ _ p _~ c ~) ~ ., ~ _ f ~.~ r ~ ~~..--~ .3RD.ST. Co ~, naht i=i tUO~, dak~da Le~unt;~ ' ~, h-,~_ Source: Dakota Co. Real Estate Inquiry Stevenson, 138. '' Hastings City Directory, 1957. N^ Hastings Heritage Preseri~alion Commission Loco( Designation Project ZOOS ~ 11 l~tnnesvta l Hi~tr~rirai s~~i~ty July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Hastings National Bank, 111 E. 3r~ St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2222 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The Hastings National Bank is a two-story, flat-roofed building clad in stone and brick laid in vertical strips in a distinctly modem design dating to 1957. The bank was designed by A. Moorman and Company of Minneapolis, a firm that specialized in small bank design throughout the Midwest. The modem design, with its curved entrance bay and vertical orientation, provided the most current banking features for customers and employees, including a lower level loan department, safety deposit box vault, community room, and night depository. Hastings National Bank was founded in 1882 as the German American Bank, a name that was changed in 1918 in response to the wave ofanti-German sentiment at the beginning of World War I. While the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression forced thousands of financial institutions to close throughout the country, Hastings National Bank remained solvent and was one of the few banks in Hastings to stay open for business. The Hastings National Bank is architecturally significant for its modern, post-World War II design and historically significant for its association with financial institutions in Hastings. We agree that the bank is eligible for local designation as a contributing property in the existing East Second Street Historic District. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Nomination Form Zoos ,~ r~~~~° mot- ;,. ~.~ t Y ~Y ~ t~ ~ 1y,ti f{~'.. W Y' "T ~~t [ ~, Il C, F 1 L Z , yf. ~- r , I <r n~ ~' f ~' y~ 1 f 1{ g yy' ~~ f ~~~~ i ~ ~1 `' ~~.'~`£1 .(~ ~ .~ ` ~' SHPO #: DK-HTC-245 y ;~~ ~ }- 4 i > > 1 5 ~ .~ t r 1 { r, C '~, .. y' y -, ._ ~. _ 608 Eddy Street, looking n~u•thwest, 3/10/2008. Landscape Research LLC. Historic Name: Silver-Gergen House Current Name: Property Type: residential Date of Construction: ca. 1870 Legal Description: Lot 1 Block 43 and E 14 ft of Lot 2 Block 43 Property Identification Number (PIN): 19-32150-020-43 UTM: 15 511545E 495405N NAD 83 T115 R17 fi~R SE-SE-NE SHPO #: DK-HTC-245 Address: 608 Eddy Street Recommendation of Eligibility: Local Designation: Eligible National Register of Historic Places: Not Evaluated Areas of Significance: Commerce, Architecture, German-Americans Description This house faces south from a wooded, sloping site near the intersection of W. Sixth and Eddy Streets. Concrete steps lead from the sidewalk to a wood staircase with seven steps. The two-and one-half story house rests on a limestone foundation with a full exposure on the east side. The plan is irregular and has low-pitched, asphalt-clad intersecting hip roofs with shallow eaves (possibly reduced in size from the original). The Italianate Style exterior is clad in Hardiplank and the large rectangular windows contain replacement sash with two-over-two lights. The sash configuration is one-over-one (changed in 2008 after photograph above). A porch with square posts and a sirnple wood rail extends around the east and north Hcrslings Heritage Preservation Convnission Locn! Desdgnation Projec7 2008 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-245 Local Designation Nomination Form 2008 elevations above an exposed basement story; this story is screened with a wood lattice apron. There is a glazed transom over the south-facing main entry and another entry opens to the porch. The existing porch on the north side is a reduced version of the original shown in Gergen family photographs, and the existing west side porch is apparently longer. The currrent owner reports that the lattice was in place in the late 1970s. ~ The current owner reports that the garage was built on the foundation of a carriage barn History James M. Silver (1820-1872) purchased Lot 1 of Block 43 from John Thomas in 1867.2 Silver was a native of Nova Scotia and was the proprietor of Silver and Cook, Hardware Merchants. This fine was the successor to that of John Thomas, and the business may have been part of the transaction.3 It is likely that the house was built during Silver's ownership of the property. The Silver household in 1870 included James' wife Amy (1824-1909) and four children.4 By 1880, after James' death in 1872, the Silver household was comprised of Amy, her 24-year-old daughter Mary, and two boarders.5 Amy left Hastings in ca. 1884, and sold the property to Nicholas Gergen (1862-1926) in 1886. Born in Minnesota to parents from Germany, Gergen began his career at the German American Bank, and became cashier in 1891. He remained at the bank until 1917. He also served as city treasurer 1896-1912, and as an alderman from the 3rd Ward. The Hastings Den~ocr•at called him one of Hastings' most prominent citizens and bankers."g When the Hastings Commercial Club was organized in 1905, he was the first treasurer. Nicholas married Barbara Gores Gergen (1862-1925) in 1885.` The household included four children by 1900.10 The next owner was Nicholas and Barbara Gergen's son Albert (1892-1937), who was a real estate dealer. He married Frances Lindley in 1920.11 The walnut trees in the front yard were planted by the Gergens in commemoration of the end of World War L IZ The property transferred from Barbara Gergen to Frances Gergen in 1924.13 In 1930 the Gergen household included Albert and Frances, three children, and a servant.14 In 1941 Frances Gergen sold the property to Nicholas Kimmes, and it immediately transferred to John Schoen.ls Richard Graham is the current owner. ~ Personal communication, Carole Zellie and Richard Graham, 4/8/08. Dakota County Deed Book Y 480, verify page. Advertisement, Hastings Gazette, 10 Aug. 1868. 1870 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 3. ' 1880 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 3. ~ Dakota County Deed Book A-3, page 497; Amy Silver obituary, Hastings Gazette 2 March 1899. ~ Cw-tiss-Wedge, Franklyn. History ofDalcota and Goodhue Counties, Minnesota (Chicago: H.C. Cooper, 1910), 514. s Hastings Democrat, 17 Jan. 1919. `' "Wife of Bank Founder Dies," Hastings Gazette 1 May 1925. 10 1900 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 3; "Wife of Bank Founder Dies," Hastings Gazette 1 May 1925. ~ ~ "A. N. Gergen Dies Following 4-Day Illness," Hastings Gazette, 24 Feb 1939. ~' Personal communication, Carole Zellie and Richard Graham, 4/8/08. ~' Dakota County Deed Book 167, page 606. ''1930 Federal Census, Hastings Ward 3. ~' Dakota County Deed Book 209, page 197; Book 208, page 235. Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Local Designation Project ZOQs Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-245 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Discussion and Significance James Silver was apparently in Hastings only for a short time before his death in 1872. During this period, Hastings enjoyed apost-Civil War boom as a wheat terminal, and its grocers, dry goods and hardware dealers supplied local residents as well as farmers from a wide trade area. H. H. Pringle was the city's leading hardware dealer, and also offered stoves and tinware. John Thomas appears to have been Pringle's main competitor in 1865.' Silver's firm, Silver and Cook, succeeded that of John Thomas. Nicholas Gergen, the next owner of 608 Eddy, was associated with local banking for 40 years, and was one of the city's successful second-generation German-American businessmen. By 1904, 9.7 percent of the city's population was German-born, with many individuals of German descent.~~ The Silver-Gergen House is awell-conserved example of late 1860s residential construction in Hastings. There have been relatively few alterations to the principal facades since construction. The building is architecturally significant as an excellent example of the simple hip-roofed Italianate Style houses that comprised much of Hastings building stock in the late 1860s and 1870s. It is also significant for its early association with merchant, James M. Silver, and its long association with banker Nicolas Gergen and his descendants. The period of significance spans the date of construction, ca. 1867, through Nicholas Gergen's death in 1926. Recommendation The Silver-Gergen House is recommended as eligible for local designation. It is significant in the areas of commerce, German-Americans, and architecture. These broad contexts are described in the Hastings Historic Contexts Stztdy (1993). The Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance § 30.10 (B) specifies cultural and architectural significance as potential areas of significance for designation. Nicholas Gergen was an important figure in the city's German-American banking community, and despite porch alterations the house is a good example of late 1860s Italianate Style architecture in Hastings. It retains a good level of historic integrity. Prepared for the Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission by Carole Zellie, Landscape Research LLC, St. Paul, Minnesota March 2008 16 Minnesota Gazetteer and Bersiness Directory (St Paul: Graff and Bailey, 1865). ~~ Hildegard B. Johnson, "Germans," in Thev Chose Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press), 163. Hastings Heritage Presernrrtion Commission Local Designnlion Project 21J08 Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission SHPO #: DK-HTC-245 Local Designation Nomination Form zoos Property Map + ~ _ ~ ~ ~ ~~~ j~` ~~ _~ ' ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 ~._ ~ ~ ~~ . 4 ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ 1 L ~ ~ ~ _ «. ~ } ~' ~~ --~ ~ t ~ 'ti + ~ ~ LL~ ~ {~ ~ i ~ i ' ' f ~_ f'n irri~aht ~%1 2D0~, ~3k~it3 ~_nufltq Source: Dakota County Property Inquiry Historic Photo ~. ~~ ~ , 2 + <~ I S ~ ~ ~_ li_'_,1 ~ . ~ ~ •, ~ , ~t i f ~ ~ 3 ~~ [ .t~ ~ ~{~ N^ Has~rngs Heritage Preserralron Comn~issron Locrr! Designation Project 20118 4 Nicholas Gergen and family at 608 Eddy, ca. 1900. Hastings Pioneer Room Collection. 1"lnrie~ota Hi~tnri~al Society July 24, 2008 Mr. Bert Goderstad, Chair Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission PO Box 91 Hastings, MN 55033 RE: Local designation of: Silver-Gergen House, 608 Eddy St., MHS Referral No. 2008-2220 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the above referenced designations. They have been reviewed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes S 471.193, subd. 6., and Hastings Heritage Preservation Commission Ordinance S 30.10, (D) (5). The Silver-Gergen House is a fairly well-preserved, two-story, wood frame dwelling built ca. I870 in the Italianate style. The house was apparently built for James Silver, a native of Nova Scotia and the owner of Silver and Cook, a hardware business. Following Silver's death in 1872, his wife Amy sold the property to Nicholas Gergen in 1886. Gergen was employed by the German American Bank, served as city treasurer from 1896-1912, as an alderman from the 3'd Ward, and treasurer of the Hastings Commercial Club. The Silver-Gergen House is architecturally significant as an example of the Italianate style, and gains historical significance for its association with merchant James Silver and banker Nicholas Gergen. As such, it is a good candidate for local designation. We would like to commend the Heritage Preservation Commission and the City of Hastings for taking the initiative to locally designate such a large number and diverse collection of historic properties. Ultimately, local designation of these buildings will help secure their long-term preservation. We certainly appreciate the ongoing efforts of the commission, and the opportunity to provide our assessment of these properties. Sincerely, i~ Britta L. Bloomberg Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Comments/ Interactions with the Property Owners who Remain in the Study Harold DHoban- 313 Ramsey St (Owner) He provided an extensive amount of research regarding his property to aid in research for the study. ~,, Jacqueline Boler- 402 7`h St W Offered to lend staff research of the home to aid in the study. She later let staff scan a historic photograph of the home that the City and the Minnesota Historical Society did not have (c. 1911) Jacqueline and her Husband William spoke at the Last HPC (8-19-08) meeting and said they would rather not have to get HPC approval to make changes to their property, but added that the HPC is conducting the study properly and for preservation to work, designation cannot be voluntary. .: ~` r!`~ Y ~ ~, ~' ,~.: xf ~ ''& !~! y i 1 ~~ ~ I ~~y ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ x ~t ~, F ~ ~ f, ..,_f- ~ . , ~' , ~t~~ '( ~ ~y,- ~ _ ~~.{ I S e ~~ ~ 4 I ~`r2~ a ~Y 1~ ~?~~` 1~ 1/7/2008 Phone Ca11437-2566 Paul Swanstrom 807 Vermillion St (owner) I would not like to be researched or designated because I will keep-up my property and do not need a commission's help Called again on 2/6/08 to reiterate and add that he would like to soon build a carriage house, soffit bracketry, and porch railings. He would not appreciate having to perform this work with a commission's approval. August 18, ~4p8 Mr. Justin 1?artney and the HPC City of Hastings 201, 4~' Street East Hastings, MN 55033 Bear Mr. Farkney and Commission Yvlembers, 1 will put this in the strongest passible way for the umpteenth. time. Karen and I do nut want our property at 807 Vermillion Street to be part afthe Hastings Heritage Preservation site study. I fast food restaurant a.er another. Vlre are Hat yet done with all the work nor dv we desire psr~xussion to complete it. hest assured that whatever we do v;~ll not in any way detract from the historic lt~ok of our property. The building is a 4-plex. and even your building, fire, and rental compliance inspectors have high praise for the structure. Uur tenants are top Hatch and stay an average of 2-3 years. Everyone loves it there. We have just put in new sewer and water lines and while that was going. on I met Carole 2ellie. ~e had a nice chat but I also told her that 1 was not happy about being any part of a historic designation and the restricti©ns that come with it. Karen and 1 plan on owning this property for a long time. It is something of a labor of love. Sincerely, ~~~~ Paul Swanstra~m 505112cNamara Ave. Hastings, M1~T 5.5033 For the 35 years we lived in Hastings prior to 1999 when we purchased 847 Vernrillian, the building was an eyesore on Hastings' busiest street. It was a dump owned by an absentee California landlord.. It was the busiest drug house in Hastings, ar so I axrt told. The front porch. was the only thing about the house. worth saving and it vvas falling offthe house and held up only by the rotting plywc~vd surrounding it_ It had asbestos siding, a rotten hole in the back roof attd a huge old boiler condemned by the City. This is just the short list. 2n 1998 the previous owner had accepted two different offers on the property. The first offer was to buy the house, tear it down and put up two duplexes. They backed out due to cxrsts and financing. The second bidder backed out when he fouxxi out how much it would cost just to make it meet Cade. We bought and restored the house to ensure :Hastings would still have a few historic homes along Vermillion Street .and not end up looking like South :Robert Street with one He reiterated these comments at the 8-19-08 HPC meeting 1/14/2008 Phone Call 437-1609 1007 Sibley Lisa Siebenaler (not property owner- the owner is Edna Siebenaler) Wanted information and did not want property chosen. 1/15/2008 came to first HPC meeting when the HPC decided which properties to study and read the following letter: January 15, 2008 Mrs. Siebenaler has owned the house since 1967. She has maintained the property and has, in the past been sensitive to the historic significance of the home; painting and replacing exterior wood, in addition to other exterior repairs. Given that this notice was only recently received, we feel strongly that the home should not be examined for the possible designation for the historic preservation list. We are concerned regarding financial burden and responsibilities that would be placed on Mrs. Siebenaler with any requirements for restoration and replacement of historic elements. As you know, the labor and craftsmanship of historic repairs and replacements can be cost prohibitive, especially given the size of this home. Of course, if feasible, at the time of any required repairs or replacements, the historic option would be considered, but certainly would only be possible if the cost was within reasonable means of Mrs. Siebenaler. The process~of obtaining permission is time consuming, costly and burdensome to the home owner. Historic preservation, a very worthy cause, needs to be undertaken with careful consideration for the financial implications on the property owner. Certainly, if the City or the Historic Preservation Committee was willing to fund the difference between the reasonable repairs and the historic option they impose, then this could more easily be achieved. The result of historic preservation benefits the community, but can be a burden to the property owner. Mrs. Siebenaler is requesting that you do not examine her home for designation nor designate her home to the historic preservation list. If you choose to move forward, we ask for it to be deferred for a period of time to allow her to seek professional advice. We greatly appreciate your sensitivity and consideration in not moving forward with considering her home. Edna Siebenaler (owner) Called 8-14-2008 Edna made no comments about the designation, but said she found some inaccuracies in the designation study and would like to write down the facts for staff. She added that she will be out of town for the August 19`h HPC meeting. _, .~ ~ - \ , ~ j ; ~~ 1 I {=c Dick Graham- (608 Eddy St) ~' ~ ~ t ~•<' Called Dave Osberg around January 17`x' ~ ~ ~ •! !`ft~1~'' Sent the following letter to the Mayor on January 23`d. ~~``"~•, w ~ Mr. Graham came and spoke to me (Justin) about his frustrations with how the HPC should not look at details like people modifying their homes but should be a grass roots effort by citizens to be a part of preservation. Mr. Graham asked me to come to his property on 1-30 to tell him what the HPC may decide about some proposed changes to his property if he were designated. I went to his property and we discussed the following: Fence replacement: I said the HPC would not have any issues if it were replaced with a similar type fence. Garage: I said the HPC has not been strict with garages and probably would not have an issue with installing an overhead door, but may require panes or a decorative door like the Dahl's garage door (carriage house type appearance). Anew garage and its siding would be required to be of similar character to the home, but not required to be as ornate as the Dahl's newer garage. Dick has not attended any HPC meetings as of 1-4-08. From: richard graham <dick rah(riiyahoo.com> To: paul hicks <naullisahLwahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1 1:47:45 AM Subject: some frustrations Hi Paul, I want to share with you an interaction I am having with the City. I like to think I am offering this experience as feed back and maybe a learning opportunity for City staff. It just seems that there is something "very big" missing in the communication between City government and the citizens which counters any and all work that our Hastings Democracy Project values. My experience is around the designation of our home as a potential historic preservation site. I'm completely supportive of _ any and all efforts, I would be proud to work in this area. And, if there is any issue that should be more of a "bottom up" from the community instead of a "top down" Holm City Hall, it could and should be preservation. Historic neighborhoods are a source of deep community pride. Historic preservation is one of the few areas of civic life, in Hastings, that can appeal to a time and space much larger than our little individual lives. In other communities preservation is at the core of cultural and civic life. It is an opportunity for a community to come together to grow and build into the future as well as into the past. The LeDuc Mansion is on the right path Somewhere along the way, historic preservation in Hastings neighborhoods took a different path. My experience of late has been first, a very impersonal and perfunctory notice from the planning deparhnent indicating our home was being considered for historic designation...Weeould attend an HPC meeting if we wished. The style of the communication did not speak to importance, or welcoming. The second communication was another perfunctory ,more legalistic, (addressed to me or current occupant) communication stating we were selected for study...and our property was now "protected". Without all the nuances of the process it could be interpreted as a command from central government that is naturally misinterpreted. From the very beginning the City has created an antagonistic relationship that is unnecessary, counter to building stronger neighborhoods and costly real dollars spent on City staff and costly to the City's image. WHAT IS MISSING FROM THE PROCESS City Government needs to frame Historic Preservation as a source of community and individual pride, building and protecting community assets for generations to come. Historic Preservation is a hallmark of the community. It is now a planning dept enforcements function. 1 would have liked to have seen a letter come from The Mayor introducing (re introducing) the whole concept, value, and reasons for Preservation. It could have included an invitation and challenge to the "very best in us" to be apart of this very important work. 1 would see a role for The Mayor in "kicking off' the next round of preservation projects, stating that it's "not a planning department job" but "a community project". It is the civic and volunteer work of the community NOT a zoning enforcement process. [ would have appreciated an opportunity to say "1'm on board" before a commission meeting or any other public discussion..After all, it's our home. 1 would like to know all about the process before expressing support or lack of support, and I would want to be apart of the process of historic designation, again, because, it's home and home is emotions. The City can't lay an legal, abstract planning and zoning study on someones home as the might on zoning for a duplex or a vacant lot, or business. 1 would like to see regular meetings with all the homes included in the study. If there was invlavement from the council reps and Mayor it would reinforce the imporance of the work and create opportunities for learning. I have expressed my concerns to Dave Osberg. I plan on calling for a meeting with the planning deptannent staff and plan on sharing these thoughts with them.. Any thoughts? Dick Dick Graham spoke at the 8-19-08 HPC meeting and reiterated that the study was conducted from the top down, rather than from the people. 1/16/2008 Phone Ca11247-8561 Tom Johnson 401 Ramsey St (part owner) Wanted to know what the process is for designation and what it means to them as property owners. He said he has the original property abstract if it will help us in our research. He spoke at the 8-19-08 HPC meeting and said there seems to not be a benefit to being inconvenienced by~etting approvals for changes. James O.'Connell, 906 Vermillion St Phone Ca112-13-2008 437-4188 He said he is opposed to being designated because there is no benefit to being designated and there are restrictions added. This also affects the salability of the property. He is in the process of selling it and he will tell the buyer to come to the HPC meeting if they're opposed to it. Phone Call 2-28-08 Jim said that because the HPC selected the property for research, the prospective buyer has decided not to buy it [I was told later that they reduced their offer]. He was adamant about getting off of the list. I said I would check to see how that could be done and if the HPC chair would be willing to consider it. After researching the matter it was determined by Melanie Mesl<o Lee that the HPC would have to rescind the action of approving the study of the property. John Grossman and I deternined that it would not have been fair to treat this property differently than other properties whose owners' were also opposed to the study. This would have required rescinding the actions that led to the study of all properties and then having a new action to approve the study for the properties they wished to keep. This not only would have made for a messy and confusing process, but the Commissioners have commented that they would not be willing to consider removing properties during the study. As Mr. O'Connell had requested I asked the HPC Chair if he would be willing to go through the process of reconsidering 906 V. for the study and he choose not too because the HPC is charged with identifying historic properties and recommending : S ; ~ .~ '; designation of ones that meet the criteria of significance. In ' ` ~ ~j ~ t.r addition the study is already underway and Commissioners :~~, ' ~ ' '~~~ ,4 ~~'~ have expressed opposition to the removal of properties from ~ ;t~ the study for reasons outside of historical significance. I *~`~'~ j ~ ' 3 ~ h~ '~ ~. have contacted Mr. O'Connell regarding this decision by ~~~ ~,n:~~ `~ ~~ ~~ the HPC Chair. ~ `- ~'c''; ""'s9 b-..1 ppp oy~x ~.. r 3 i ~'~~}~ ~~~ ..P .yam He reiterated his feelings to the HPC at the 8-19-08 meeting Kathryn Birkeland (Owner) 111E 3`d street Phone Call 8-18-2008 Kathryn said she is not in favor of designation because it would add another hoop to jump through in order to make an improvement to the property. She asked what types of improvements required HPC approval. At the HPC meeting on 8-19-08 she made an emotional plea to not designate the property until she sells it. She said she is having trouble selling it with the slow economy and this could make it more difficult. Some Commissioners said they sympathize with her, but they are charged with recommending to the City Council which properties meet the designation criteria. Chair Goderstad urged her to attend the Council meeting on the 15`" and consider contacting her City Council person to explain her situation. , ..; ~ ; , , , ~ ~;~ ~~ ': fff ~ i A - Michelle M Andersen (part owner) 220 Sibley St Phone call (On about 8-12-2008) 651-227-1336 Michelle was worried that designation could negatively affect the profitability of the property because of possible restrictions. She also asked questions about what type of improvements required HPC approval. t i ~' ; ,;, ~ r ~'~ ~~~ ,,,. ~, '; ~ ~~: i ~- -Ff ~ 4 t `~ :~ ~ a ~ `~ ~ »~ °_ 1/7/2008 Phone Call lynae.mach("cuyahoo.com Lynae Mach 700 6Th St W (Owner) Made no comments but asked for the HPC contact information- Names and addresses provided. Call again on 8-14-2008 Again made no comment, but asked about ~ ~ ~, ~, ,~::, ~-- ~ ~„ what types of modifications would require approval. ~' ~`' '~ ,; ~" - - _-~~ ~,~ -~~ . m ~;~~_ ~~ I~ ~ i~ ~ ~ ~~ 8-19-08 HPC meeting Gary L & Carol A Schmitt 316 Vl1 8`h St Gary attended the meeting and said he is opposed to designation and his wife is for it so he was just there to deliver facts. He said that his actual house was never owned by the Densmore's or the Cobbs. He added that it may look that way by only looking at the County records, but his abstract shows that they only owned the property with the barn on it in the rear of the property. Given this possibility, the HPC tabled this property while the consultant looks into this possibility. ,_. " , ~' J t „~" ~ ~' ~ 2,f _ - r .~. ----- ~!^ !p ~.~~~~, t1J ~ ~;`, _ '~: ~~~ --~..~..a _ ~ ,. Gary has since let staff scan the abstract for the consultant to further research. When the research is completed, the HPC will reconsider the property for designation. No other property owners or members of the public have made comments to me or during public meetings regarding properties that are still being considered for designation, to the best of my knowledge.