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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: (Construction data, alterations, and date of alterations) <br />Year Built: circa 1895 <br />Screen Porch: August 13, 1924 <br />Alterations: October 30, 1929 <br />5x10 addition to residence: July 2, 1945 <br />Repair brick footings at porch: December 8,1998 <br />RELATED FEATURES: (Other important features such as barns, sheds, fences, prominent or unusual trees, or landscape) <br />None identified <br />DESCRIPTION: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, altera(ions, size, settings, and <br />boundaries.) <br />The nicely detailed prominent front gable and narrow clapboard siding indicates that this house was probably built in the 1890's. <br />Vertical venhvork of varying widths and diagonal molding-edged trim provide a pleasing pattern in the gables that face the front and <br />sides of this tall building, with double cross-gable roof Pairs of ten-light casement windows are used throughout the second story. A <br />large arched plate glass window, located in the center of the front fagade, was probably installed in the late 1920's, at the same time as <br />the casement windows. Enclosed porches, featuring ribbons of ten-light windows, flank tine large window in the center of the front <br />fagade. The Sanborn map of 1924 shows the original open entry porch on the north side and an open porch on the south side. Both <br />originally stopped at the edge of the front fagade of the house. Brick wainscotting was installed when the porches were enclosed. <br />Because the alterations occurred more than filly years ago, they are considered part of the historic fabric. However the jalousie <br />windows on the north and south sides are more recent. The most identifiable features, which make this building a Stick/Eastlake style <br />include: the decorative trusses at the apex of the gables, the vertical ventwork, the steeply gabled roof, the narrow clapboard siding <br />and the elongated windows. <br />HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS: <br />This house first shows up on the Sanborn map in 1895. However' it is not until 1909 that it is listed in the directories. William <br />Thomas, a local attorney, is the first resident listed at this address in 1909. Wallace and Mabel Rutann owned the house during the <br />1910's. He was a prominent attorney with the firm of Rutan and Tucker. The firm still is in existence today. Willard and Marie <br />Patterson owned the house from the 1920's through the 1940's. He was the manager of the General Bottling and Distribution <br />Company at 1420 W. 5`h St. and later, tine Whistle Bottling Company. <br />RESOURCE ATTRIBUTES: (List attributes and codes from Appendix 4 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office <br />of Historic Preservation.) <br />HP2 Single Family properly <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />LUI I ROcatcgozie5\rutan <br />10-5-00 <br />25A-8