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Home My WebLink About2011-08-22 11-271 ORDINANCEDate: Auaust 22, 2011 Item no, 11 271 Ifem/Subject: Ordinance, Amending Chapter 148, Historic Preservation, § 148-5, Designating 107 Court Street as an Historic landmark Responsible Department: Code Enforcement Prentiss and Carlisle has requested that their property at 107 Court Street, which is known as the William Augustus Blake House and is on the National Register of Historic Places, be designated as an historic landmark under Chapter 148, and this amendment accomplishes this designation. Upon recelpt of a request for landmark designation, Chapter 148-0 requires the Historic Preservation Commission to hold a public hearing and for the Commission to make recommendations on the request. At the same time, Chapter 148-4 requires that the item be placed on the neat regularly scheduled City Council agenda. The application for designation was received on August 4, 2011. The Commission held its Public Hearing on August 11, 2011, and unanimously approved the request from Prentiss and Carlisle. This Ordinance is for First Reading. Department Head Manager's Comments: uo au 01?vnwc.q, d4q, �'jt-Zj p,,, ql.l i� .. •/ City Manager Associated Information: Ordinance Amendment, Approval Letter from HPC 7 Finance Director Legal Approval City saldtor Introduced for Y Passage x First Reading Page _of._. Referral 11 271 ]WSJ~ Assigeed to Counetlor Lougu August TT, 2011 1 ;t CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.) Ordinance, Amending Chapter 148, Historic Preservation, § 148-5, Designating 107 Court Street as A Historic Landmark BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGOR THAT Historic Preservation Code, Chapter 148, § 148-5, be amended by adding new subsection C(36), as follows: §148-5. Historic districts, historic sites and historic landmarks designated. The following described lands, buildings or structures or areas of the City are designated historic districts, historic sites or historic landmarks, as follows: C. Historic landmarks. 36The William Augustus BI k HO —The land and buildings ted at 107 Court Sliest City of Bangor Tax Assessors Mao 32 Lot 180 IB CITY 808861. Ao t 22, 2011 Yirst & aan cIT� jmT m an wacn Bepte r 12, 2011 mUot w e asd Becooded fm vote: 9-0 c Cm rs votiv Yes: Blw Brossos, O gm, Lo o, Cral Baves: Paler, Yestoo B Nd C Cll"s vvtio No: emle Faced �/N CiPY. c;� M 19g N 11 271 !075924299 fax a075u _ ��N}d/nQ _ _.._ I mY ma?rn�E 9mmalm, neOne wwv. WnAormalne Aar CODE ENFORCEMENT UrvI510N J1,11,11Y P mento. orwlonmenr (oortlnuloi August 17,2011 ' Mr. Benjamin D. Carlisle, Vice President Porches and Carlisle P.D. Box 637 Hangar, Maine 04402-0637 Re: Bangor Historic Preservation- Notice of Decision Historic Landmark Designation— William Augustus Blake House —107 Coun Street Dear Me Carlisle This is to notify you that at the August 11, 2011 public heating by a vote of 5 to 0, the Historic Preservation Commission recommended approval of your application request to have the William Augustus Blake those located at 107 Corot (Map 32 Lot 188) designated as an Historic Landmark. Your request and the Commission's recommendation will now be submitted to the City Council for Council action. I will notify you when the City Council will hear your request. The Historic Preservation Commission apVmdates Pmntes and Carlisle's commitment m the City of Bangor and its architectural history. If you have any questions about he process do not hesitate to contact me r l�ectlully.; 1 J rernYP'�Manin Development Coordinator 73 Harlow Sneer r 8anbor, Maine 04401 u 271 July 1111, 2017 Mr. Jeremy Marne Code Enforcement Division 73 Harlow Street Bangor, Maine 09401 Dear Mr. Martin Please consider "a letter our learned request for a local landmark Property designation under the historic preservation city ordinance for fire Prentiss& Carlisle main office building at 107 Court St Prentiss & Carlisle has operated our forest management and timberland services at this location roue 1947 Also known as the William Augustus Blake House, our building is already listed on tie National Register of Historic Places, as well as with the State of Maine, and we have taken great pride in preserving the building's heritage. We intend ter continue serving as its stewards so that the t istory of this holding and our neighborhood remains intact. I have taken the liberty to assemble a package with some materials regarding the building's history amI some other background Irtormation m allow you and the Histone Preservation Commission 0 familiarize yourselves with this local treasure. If you or they have any questions about this request or our property, please feel free fir carrier me at your convenience. Sincerely, eek n D. Carlisle WmPrestdent APPLICATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION DESIGNATION 11 271 TYPE ❑ Historic District ❑ Hislorlc Site AHistoric Landmark Applicant __LgarTII E Date_ malting Address _lo% Coa;c_Sr._ baa a , At _ . _ Phone qjk,- t?jg _. Location of Buildirg/Ske - rP _ c ,Kr STJ' LYN k Name of Building/Site WW{4q AIuSvrvS Kis H, E .. If District- List All Properties Proposed Onnsr of BuildinglSde � 'mSt*..CAPUYf_f41PnNY Im (If not ayplicard) - Description of Historic Charactans6cslQualRuafions _ N_IveK +_#A.Wm..&k Is Yui-ssk`-an �fww _er._. CMe0.r Fy . >f i c*?.. EUMAIfi ecs a srsawL µL P� ure of Applicant �FNYovIN U. c.1p11S1,E HistoricJ Prey/ervation Commission Action Approved Denied I I� Date City Council Action Approved Denied Date 4 261 W911,11 Fury50¢ Bake Hoex107 Court S iso, I Syr 58, Rvtiv & F,i 11 271 BJ Br C. ►_. t:r, r 262. WMIlm Assault Bose Bnw, rastem .tilde n Eleunn c , ea RVJ&FW1,r 1 bridge. Massachusetts,' a a but differs from it in detass of Its poor, which Ryder apparently copied from details of the Jonathan Eddy House. The Bangm mansard which imitates the Houghton House M the David Bu ibee House. Calvin Ryder (1810-1890) was a native of Omrglon who practiced in Frankfort as a young v During this period he drew the plans fox the 1834 Winterport Congregational Chi Ryder also did residential work in Belfast during Ns years at Frankfort, and his James P. White House, 1842, is one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the state. William pollutants Blake was a banker who owned timbethins and other properties: his wife was the sister of Mrs. Calvin Ryder. Complete plans marked For Williams P. Bhkq Erp Burger, Maine maw. by AYdn as FWIR Aust pairs, mmdmc 40 Suit Street, Boston, Man, estabhsb me on®nal interior appearance of the house and supply information about misung exterior element. The Blake House has the blockwork sash typical of the final mansions of the period, A circular bracketed monotonous bay is in she dining room, the second roam on 262 the stormily side of the central halt, the Houghton House had a similar bay on the front room on the other side of the hall. The interiors of the two houses are said to have followed the same plan, and she Houghton House had the same asymmetry in its side elevations as the Blake House fare below), therefore. the pians were revered in building the two houses, 261 The More bay facade has a shallow central pavilion, We re Eddy flout but unlike the Houghton House, with paired founddeaded windows (unlike either tEe Eddy or Houghton '.63 WJIiam Augustus Bite Boom, chamber Scur Fit, by Nor, Q Fulle,. °L M<. WiWam A artm Blake H"w, Atac Plan' by Ryser d FIJI" Housed above the himanate portico. and a resundheaded window with an elaborate floral key. SpOne in the central moble above. The latter has a centra l roof and small Mees modJlinns echoing those of the m Nand dormers; its roof is supported on edinfles and has sweeping concave sides. The sagmental dormers, liable, and moddha ed coriuce are like those of due Eddy House, but the roof elope is more curved, like that of are Houghton House and early Cambridge mn setas by Greenough. The elaborate exterior detail includes paired ro sole Three brackets between bays, a waled Po¢e (main block oNys moddlions along the base of the roof hip, and curved bases crollug to the sides on the dormer windows, untie the forward-prejacting brackets of the Eddy House: The pound story windows have Bat bracketed architraves and those above have drip moldings, all with small sill brackets. The more decorative portico brackets have carved drops. and the roundhwded motif is well on it in bghtweTht open wood arches set within square headed openmgs: this any treatment is quite different from the porticoes of the PaWk and Eddy Houses where the round headed openings were of sold wood. Fine carving is also seen in the rotate designs of the keystones over these portico archea (inside and out); inthe carving of the comic¢ over the outer doors, a pattern of overlapping hearts; and in the carved paneled counted markets, which have buds on the upper scroll and caused bones at the base. Ryder's Greek Revival houses in Belfast pvicmarly the James P. White Hous, reveal a fondness for served detail that may have been inspired by the influence of Charles G. BryantI 1 n The portico was formerly surmounted by a parapet of ovals joined by Bayou having paneled posts; this is the only impotlant exterior element now missing. Though complicated and elaborate. there is a restraint and classicism in flus elevation which Is comparable to that of the lames P. White Hous, Belfast, but different from Darius Lawrence's Pauli Hous and the other mansions (Jonathan Eddy, Nathan Pendleton, Jacob Smith) attributed to Lawrence 11 271 V Imo - '.63 WJIiam Augustus Bite Boom, chamber Scur Fit, by Nor, Q Fulle,. °L M<. WiWam A artm Blake H"w, Atac Plan' by Ryser d FIJI" Housed above the himanate portico. and a resundheaded window with an elaborate floral key. SpOne in the central moble above. The latter has a centra l roof and small Mees modJlinns echoing those of the m Nand dormers; its roof is supported on edinfles and has sweeping concave sides. The sagmental dormers, liable, and moddha ed coriuce are like those of due Eddy House, but the roof elope is more curved, like that of are Houghton House and early Cambridge mn setas by Greenough. The elaborate exterior detail includes paired ro sole Three brackets between bays, a waled Po¢e (main block oNys moddlions along the base of the roof hip, and curved bases crollug to the sides on the dormer windows, untie the forward-prejacting brackets of the Eddy House: The pound story windows have Bat bracketed architraves and those above have drip moldings, all with small sill brackets. The more decorative portico brackets have carved drops. and the roundhwded motif is well on it in bghtweTht open wood arches set within square headed openmgs: this any treatment is quite different from the porticoes of the PaWk and Eddy Houses where the round headed openings were of sold wood. Fine carving is also seen in the rotate designs of the keystones over these portico archea (inside and out); inthe carving of the comic¢ over the outer doors, a pattern of overlapping hearts; and in the carved paneled counted markets, which have buds on the upper scroll and caused bones at the base. Ryder's Greek Revival houses in Belfast pvicmarly the James P. White Hous, reveal a fondness for served detail that may have been inspired by the influence of Charles G. BryantI 1 n The portico was formerly surmounted by a parapet of ovals joined by Bayou having paneled posts; this is the only impotlant exterior element now missing. Though complicated and elaborate. there is a restraint and classicism in flus elevation which Is comparable to that of the lames P. White Hous, Belfast, but different from Darius Lawrence's Pauli Hous and the other mansions (Jonathan Eddy, Nathan Pendleton, Jacob Smith) attributed to Lawrence 11 271 V 11 271 :90 bnryr. Maim• Ii591914 'A rFnert al brain The house was designed to have two over two light sash, which were carefully graduated in size, both by story and by (heir placement on the facade or sides It was probably the firs( Bangor house to case this kind of ewer. The two -light cellar sash carefully corresponds to the windows above, and in the later twmstory, bay on the northerly Side wall, the three -tight teller windows make an wkaa d transition where every other detail is a carefully planned There in al departure hothe a ap carefully designed correond<seeb and proportioned elements n nmn theplans. The archeect provided atloid secondsttery window between the two main bays for the elaborate dressing rows, wacMbssin doxy and cupboards between the two chambers on each side elevation, and his drawing shows that privacy was provided by completely louvered interior shutters (the kind that first appeared in Bangor in the dining room of Cliff Cottager. Thu asymmetry foreshadows the Crucial Revival, in which the provision of comfort permitted variation in fenestmdon. A library with sliding doors containing plass panels is at the front of the secpndstory hall. 363 and there are five plain bedrooms on the third floor, reached from the all staircase A circular skylight (now deficient in the second story ceiling has its original leaf molding. On the mom 260 floor, the floor Opening cal The man black of 265 rive feet four triches and had a parlor, an oval bad 266 (one announced a safe for. was entered though an at Thele was no chimney on mg room Aster l r plaster elements, indicating that these w all ordered from suppliers. The specipcations: which would have demfibed these element ado not involve. The present interim well Molded fourpari doors am originalas are IM1e double sliding library doors on the second floor. In the late 19th century, the Ihenowdvr of IM1e house, Edward H. Blake had [be Inlenter remodelled in Ian elaborate Colonial R. al massive; taste ith overtones of the Queen A (the inglenook previously described) Without the p f tions, one cannot be certain f Inoriginal finance. The counters skirting (mop) boards and chamber dervers seem always have been deduced, but the original - 267 binary doors am stained and converted . Downstairs, the elaborate drawing room doorswhich respond to the architect's design except for an addi meal crown molding, are ago stained V and varnished, as are the window surrounds, skirting boards, laterwall panels and so on Since the descriptions of the Nathaniel Lord(1844)and Hayward Pence 118511 Wife, show a prefer ce for dark wood pained finishes in reception rooms (even the greenish Rogers Double House of 1835 had the outside of its from door finished before Installation, which may indicate staining, and the 1839 addition to she Alfred G. Jewett House had a white oak front door]. it is notable that sire one woad vim in (hese areas was originally stained not painted. The high varnish now presentre , however, was probably added in she late 19th century redeco lion of the boom AB chimney games were opposed in Edward Blake's redecoration, those of the parlor and dining room by beautifully agreed mahogany ones with Aural centerpieces: elaborate ma ¢luny paneYng was installed in these rooms The parlor and front southerly bedroom received high Adamesque plaster relief ceiling frieeas (that of the parlor is a ver). and o neve added ompontimic ceiling moldings wereNosection n the older simple late Creed Revival gs moldinAlso Installed at this taste were wall panels filled with ((moots papers, a new heavy mahogany railing and Dc]agonal newel rr ranted by Blinn acceptant. and additional moldinp over the drawing roodoor. In this room�Ionic columns before the bay and matching Ionic _ window m ndow plasters replaced Oe old into The chimnev piece in the bay is a ohms d white wooden one with mucor of the type made let the Morse mill Upstrun, the front southerly bedromn temved a carved reserved chimney, piece of exquisite workmanehip with Blake Myself worked Into the carved gadands. and the back bedroom a high rl 271 Pher science and care. Frviwu Com 1830.1660 . �. Lly•i L8 L r .' L .-C'� J M William Aaeuetm Blake Hous,, 266. Willhm Ancestor Blake Home, First Story, plan, by RYder® earth plan of its Cellar by Ryser A, Fuger, $battles bot ab PIP'S leading to III paneled neatly blackatamed dado. a Germmie medevaliainB chimney piece with wide file surround. builnin cupboards, and a bed which folds into the paneling The work here resembles first of the German carver who worked at the Morse m81 in this period, though the finely carved work in the front bMmom Is believed to have been done in Boston. The name of the architect n charge of the redadamiton of thehourt B not known, but he wait sensitive to Ryder's drawings,, and replaced elements, for example the outer front doors (which cridinagy had round -head molded panels above molded oblongs) with square -head Homs with dee and dart moldings in the Colonial Revival taste, that carefully relate 0the original elements. The even more far-reichum redecoration of the Isaac Ferrer Mansion by Isom, Merrill represents the same kind of fashionable 56 - upg2dmg; the George W. Brown House received an interior in the same taste in this period, and other important concede, for example the PhJo Strickland Hours (a mansard) and she George Stetson House, received circular bays The that of the Blake House. Whether Merrill followed Blake's example or that of another important mBliauire, or$lake Merrill's, is not known. When the Blake Home was nearly complete it was described in the Bangor Daily Whig and Coupler of October 5, 1858, and its modern convrniencea, rather than its exceptionally polished architecture, were what caught the attention of the jourrai st 'Gold's Steam Heating Apparatus" fducls. are shown on Ryder's plan leading to every room) was of particular note, The Witter 166 commuen: e of the most eteynt pmae tandu m Barter. Mame-emu under The rope. Trideadoncroor Mr. ROMat carol, rhde r ry toroidal io ..trite and area ,norawas nearly awry cosuccars,and Comfort f« me three vatunmodern true,. The restaurant Eam or coelomic for my far sco ma and violating Iran ncan w. a to, "few avmn the rut fatuity ,f seen to the differentapmm ms, au.: 11, complete emade aliberal had That u I'll n ' pee real youth that of an ether prettycity Writing in the When first listed in the Bangor lax lista in 1858it was valued of 513,000. Robert Cobalt' r l was the cabinet maker turned founderwho had remodelled his older Stam Street cape house the Guests taste, fH6 brother John Carbe Jr., remained a cabinet maker. ) The architect's plans confirm that the Blake House was indeed palatial In The degree offs s. In addition to the communicating dressing rooms with basins between the main bedrooms,ethere wan a passageway storage area with there between parlor and dining room. -- D^;,, I, or, l.'Eei 611 d,.l .vim mru/1,,, fi ,ea 11 271 and in the secondsmry ed.a bathroom and two ttpanle wa ler close Or mansomed serum to entrances. The kitchen, which was croul by its onestory back addition housing a wash room with boiler behind the four -barter range, and a fuel room, had its own water drier 'Phe plans by Ryder 5 PuOer prese n all then details the way In which planning for mWarn conveniences produced a house withta copies of comfort that was really new and unequalled until the present enNry They also show that the sulsyme t rmnodedling of the 61ake House was entrained merely with matters of dermanon- - -� �- fIi 11 FI 0F.1 Il a« ;,!tr� :17 widner, A1911116 IMIT, HIIIIV f aTOO and "baty E nby Ry Oil W ...._. - and in the secondsmry ed.a bathroom and two ttpanle wa ler close Or mansomed serum to entrances. The kitchen, which was croul by its onestory back addition housing a wash room with boiler behind the four -barter range, and a fuel room, had its own water drier 'Phe plans by Ryder 5 PuOer prese n all then details the way In which planning for mWarn conveniences produced a house withta copies of comfort that was really new and unequalled until the present enNry They also show that the sulsyme t rmnodedling of the 61ake House was entrained merely with matters of dermanon- BANGOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY Historic Preservation Committee This citation is awarded to in recognition of the restoration of T6s [QrjisLe Co, 'M7vltse a °f ?hake am Wz f('sa'n AINUs `{ the architect -Ural and historic fabridistinc ofguBisanhed- gorcontribution to. Award dens;SLJ/ess �u.6Ci[.L�i,A�S Date: �vve�6e�- l9, 79Z6 Z- N H 11 271 Niton[5Fegisteroe�Rl horic.daces in tkie State of Xaine o� `.79t is to arfif flat fle. . 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