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P A S T <br /> CONSULTANTS LLC <br /> Seth A. Bergstein <br /> 415.515.6224 <br /> [email protected] <br /> May 2, 2016 <br /> Mike Carey <br /> Investment Real Estate Company <br /> 327 St. Mary Street <br /> Pleasanton, CA 94566 <br /> Re: Supplemental Letter for 4791 Augustine St., Pleasanton, CA <br /> APN. 094-0155-000 <br /> Dear Mr. Carey: <br /> This supplemental letter addresses questions from the City of Pleasanton Planning Department <br /> regarding the Historic Resource Evaluation (HRE) submitted by me, as Principal of PAST <br /> Consultants, LLC (PAST), on January 26, 2016. Based on conversations with you, two questions <br /> have arisen about the evaluation: 1. Have the changes made to the circa-1895 residence achieved <br /> historic significance, as they appear to be more that 50 years old; and 2. Is the brick storage <br /> structure historically significant individually, as it appears to be over 50 years old? <br /> First, as described in the January 26, 2016 HRE, the circa-1895 residence has received a full-width <br /> front porch addition, a full-width rear addition and a gable-roofed addition to the right side <br /> elevation. While no permits exist to date the additions, the rear shed-roofed addition appears on the <br /> 1943 Sanborn map. The front porch addition was dated based on the age and type of porch <br /> construction materials to the 1940s— 1950s. While these additions are more than 50 years of age, <br /> they have obscured and removed much of the earlier fabric of the circa-1895 residence for purposes <br /> of constructing the additions. The additions have removed the historic integrity of design, <br /> materials, workmanship, feeling and association from the circa-1895 building and it no longer can <br /> communicate its historic significance under National Register Criterion C (California Register <br /> Criterion 3) as a Vernacular Queen Anne-style residence. While the additions are likely more than <br /> 50 years old, they would not qualify as outstanding examples of design, materials or construction <br /> method under National Register Criterion C (California Register Criterion 3). The additions do not <br /> have historic significance. <br /> Regarding the brick outbuilding on the subject property, the structure was likely constructed as an <br /> equipment storage building. As stated in the HRE, the property housed family members and <br /> workers for the Americo Zaro Gravel Company in the 1940s and 1950s. The associates of the Zaro <br /> Gravel Company likely used the brick structure for equipment storage for their gravel business; and <br /> P.O. Box 721 <br /> Pacific Grove, CA 93950 <br /> www.pastconsultants.com <br />