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RecordTrac - City of OaklandDATE:
TO:
City Council
FROM:
City Planning
Properties
of
SUBJECT: Placement
between
Street
CASE
Commission
Northerly Side of
on
12th
and
11th Avenue
Avenue
FILE: R
East
in
July 6, 1982
the
82144
12th
S7
Brooklyn Downtown).
Preservation Combining Zone. (Clinton-
Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board recommends that the six
the
northerly side of East 12th Street between 11th Avenue and 12th
properties
The basic zoning
7 Preservation Combining Zone.
the Swithin
Avenue be placed
57 would impose a
the
remain.
would
M3
0
Adding
Industrial,
of the properties,
The
DISCUSSION:
on
structures
design review requirement for all exterior changes to the
demolition
of
issuance
in
permits.
any
provide for possible delays
and
would
thriving 19thpart of the oncebuilding group was originally developed as~
which
of
East
district
business
Oakland,
and early20th century Clinton/Brooklyn
three
blocks
about
extended
19001
920
along East
at its developmental peak around
Avenue.
13th
12th Street and three blocks along
This
The
for
district originally constituted part of the
old business
which
town
plat
was
laid out
in
1853,
but
experienced
settlement
little
of
Clinton,
growth until
Antonio and other nearby communities to form the town of
joined
the
Brooklyn in 1870. By 1852, ferry service existed between San Francisco and
San Antonio embarcadero at the base of 13th Avenue and by 1872, a train station
with
Clinton
San
trolley line connected Brooklyn with Oakland. Brooklyn was annexed by Oakland
Much of the
1872 and rapid residential and commercial development followed.
some of whose residents
desirable
residential
became
a
suburb,
area
surrounding
and
in
commuted by ferry to San Francisco.
business district began to decline about 1920, many of the old commercial buildings being demolished, especially in the earliest central portion at the intersec-
The
The
12th
and East
13th Avenue
tion of
Street.
concentration of
group constitutes the most intact surviving
the
westerly end
structures within the old district, its location at
subject building
commercial
reflecting its construction during
The
development.
in
terms
of the
buildings within
uses
the
the
middle
group
and
are
later
they contained and their
which
of
representative
range
of
district's
the
of
phases
the
old
architectural
district
styles.
Like many commercial building groups of its era, this group is architecturally
wellintegrated through consistent building heights, floorlines, zero setbacks
Additional unity is added by the repetition of projectand fenestration patterns.
ing bay windows and roof elements. Within this unity, the individual distinction
of several of the buildings is especially satisfying.
The
proposal
Downtown
could be
considered to be establishing
Historic District which could be expanded
The
properties involved
1.
11021118
building
in
East
was
Oakland
whose
in
success
Oakland,
and
12th
are
the
in
Street.
in
was
Originally
18801881
known
for
early 1860's. Jurgens
real
one
estate
of
nucleus
the
for
ClintonBrooklyn
future.
follows:
as
constructed
in
and
number
other
of
the "Central
as
Charles
was
had
significant early
businesses
early
Jurgens,
Block",this
who
German
paralleled
immigrants
settled
settler
of
the
growth
who
contributed ~~
I~
2-
after the " Central Block"
development of the Brooklyn area. Shortly
floor store spaces was occupied by the
was completed, one of the ground
branch libraries in the City at
East Oakland Free Reading Room, one of two
to
the
This
time.
that
extent
suffered from poor maintenance and
has
building
The
is
there
that
for
being considered
also
is
structure
demolition
threat of
the
on
designation.
Landmark
fire
recent
basis of
its
to
the
being
is
cur-
public safety. The City's Housing Conservation Department
to save the building; its placement in
rently working closely with the owner
not preclude a demoS7 zone or even its designation as a Landmark would
an
hazard to
safety considerations.
lition order because of
12th
2.
1120
3.
11321134 East
East
with
4.
the
is
Street. This
the
1909.
Bishop's Building, built in 1908-
date
recent
more
appearance
the
of
block
as
whole.
indicate that this
11361140 East 12th Street. City tax assessment records
who
operated a hard1898 for William L. Taylor,
structure was built in 1897store
ware
the
center
truncated curved conical roofs
and
the
wer
curving
in
cornice
sides
of
bay
below.
windows
12th
11421144 East
for his
use
in
Street.
1895.
KcKown
into the
business
ware
small
This
ground floor and lived in the flat above.
distinguished by an unusual gable roof with molded
the
on
is
building
5.
12th
Vacant property).
in relation to the other structures
construction
are highly
compatible
the block face, its scale and architectural features
its
Despite
on
Street. (
Alexander McKown had this building constructed
subsequently
floor
ground
store
moved his
from
plumbing,
location
stoves
across
the
and
tin-
street
six years. McKown made the upper floor his residence.
that the
The roof treatment and the second story stained glass window suggest
it
was
before
elaborate
been
fairly
ornamentation of the building may have
where
he
had been
covered with
6.
composition shingles.
11481156 East
and
for
12th
Street.
At
the
building --
12th Avenue, this
northwesterly
the " Williams
corner
Block" --
of
East
one
of
12th
the
Street
two
most
structures in this grouping, the other being the "Central Block"
The " Williams
described above and anchoring the corner of 11th Avenue.
1886 for George R. Williams, a San Francisco
Block" was constructed in 1885home on 8th Avenue ( Williams
attorney who at that time commuted from his large
significant
as
later
moved to
another house, still
standing
at
1930
10th Avenue). The build-
towered roof make it a
ing's distinctive and conspicuous corner pyradimal
is
also
This
structure
focal
being considered for
visual
point.
prominent
Landmark
Action
on
the
to
designation.
place these properties in
environment
and
the
the
S7
zone
cannot
possibly
have
an
adverse
impact
California Environmental Quality Act therefore does not
apply.
RECOMMENDATION:
Zone
to
the
S7
as
described above.
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