State of California - The Resources Agency DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
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*NRHP Status Code
(Assigned by recorder)
*Resource Name or #:
3S
227-229-231 Ave 19
B1. Historic Name: B2. Common Name: B3. Original Use:
B4. Present Use:
Multi-family residential
*B5. Architectural Style: *B6. Construction History:
Multi-family residential
Folk Victorian (Construction date, alterations, and data of alterations)
Year constructed: 1907
X
*B7. Moved?
No
Yes
Unknown
Date:
Original Location:
*B8. Related Features:
None
B9a. Architect:
b. Builder:
unknown
*B10. Significance:
Area: Los Angeles
Period of Significance:
1907
Theme:
unknown
Folk Victorian Architecture 1885-1905
Property Type:
Residential
Applicable Criteria:
C/3/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity.)
The grouping of three early residences located on one parcel appears eligible for the National and California Registers and for designation as an HCM under Criterion C/3/3 as a unique example of Folk Victorian as applied to a multifamily property. Folk Victorian styled residences were popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as an affordable way to decorate otherwise modest homes with the elaborate decorative styles of the Victorian Era. Generally chosen from pattern books and mass-produced, the ornamentation on Folk Victorian homes demonstrate how industrialization of the building industry boadened and popularized what would otherwise have been prohibitively expensive design for most people. Hundreds of these residences were built during the residential booms in the 1880s and 1900s, but intact examples have since become increasingly rare. While these residences represent a modest example of the style, together they represent an application of the style to a multifamily...(continued on next page)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes:
(List attributes and codes)
HP03
*B12. References:
Sanborn Maps
(Sketch Map with north arrow required.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: *Date of Evaluation:
Kathryn McGee 05/25/2011
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DPR 523B (1/95)
*Required Information