Northside - City of Riverside

including architectural style, estimated or factual date of construction, and related
features. Two freeway improvement projects have recently prompted intensive-level
Section 106 surveys within portions of the study area. A report entitled “Historic
Architectural Survey Report (HASR) for the Widening of State Route 60 (SR-60) and
Interstate Route 215 (I-215) between Valley Way and University Avenue” by David
Bricker was included within the project’s corresponding Historic Property Survey
Report (HPSR) dated February 1995 by Stephen Hammond, and a series of revised
and supplemental HPSR-HASR documents were prepared from 1993 to 2000 for a
separate project to improve I-215/SR-91/SR-60. The preparation of these documents
involved a number of consultants, including Myra L. Frank & Associates, Inc.;
Historical, Environmental, Archaeological, Research, Team (HEART); Parsons,
Brinckerhoff, Quade, & Douglas, Inc.; and David Bricker and Christie Hammond,
then Architectural Historians for California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans), District 8.
SURVEY FINDINGS
In completing the reconnaissance survey, JMRC found that 952 properties were
included within the survey boundary, of which, approximately 11% had been
previously intensively surveyed and 63 had been previously designated. Of the 952
properties, 128 were constructed, or appeared to be constructed, after 1959 and 143
appear too altered. 156 properties appear eligible for inclusion as contributors within
three (3) potential districts. In addition to the three historic districts, 11 properties
appear individually eligible for designation, and 16 properties are recommended for
further study. In addition, the theme of Immigration and Ethnic Diversity is
recommended for further study as association with ethnic groups, particularly
Northsiders of Hispanic descent, could not be fully developed (Appendices IV through
IX).
The surveyed portion of the Northside represents several types of property use and
a variety of periods of development from the late 19 th century to the modern period.
A portion of the locally designated and NR-eligible Heritage Square Historic District
exists within the southeast boundary of the survey area and represents a large
variety of residential architectural styles popular in southern California from the
1880s to the 1920s, including excellent examples of the Victorian, Revival, and Arts
and Crafts periods. Debate over the boundaries of this district has ensued within the
process of previous surveys by Aegis in 1992, during the Section 106 survey process
for the Caltrans freeway improvement projects begun in the 1990s, and by Myra L.
Frank & Associates, Inc. in 2003. The district is currently bounded by SR-91 to the
east, the north side of Fifth Street to the south, the east side of Orange Street from
Fifth to Third Streets and the west side of Orange Street from Third to First Streets to
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