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State of California - -- The Resources Agency DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION BUILDING, STRUCTURE AND Primary # HRI OBJECT RECORD Page 2 of 4 81. Historic Name: B2. Common Name: B3. Original Use: Single family residential 'B5. Architectural Style 'B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations) See page 3 'B7. Moved? ®No OVes ❑Unknown Date: 'B8. Related Features: Detached garage 'NRHP Status Code 84. Present Use: Single family residential Original Location: B9a. Architect: b. Builder: 'B10. Significance: Theme: Residential Development Area: Early 201" Century Expansions and Additions Property Queen Anne Cottage Period of Significance: Type: (modified) Applicable Criteria: 3/C (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity.) 536 St. John Street is located within the original Kottinger subdivision plan for the City of Pleasanton. With the confirmed continuance of the Western (later Central /Southern) Pacific Railroad through Pleasanton in the late 1860s, large property holders in the vicinity of the Pleasanton town site began rapidly subdividing property into house lots and laying out streets. In 1868, John Kottinger laid out a regular grid of streets on his irregularly shaped parcel of and between Division Street on the south, the Arroyo del Valle on the north, and Main Street on the east, creating a series of regular, square property blocks and various partial blocks and Tots in anticipation of continuance of the grid south of Division Street at a later date (Thompson 1878, Pleasanton Downtown Historic Context Statement). In the early 1910s, Manuel and Katherine (or Catherine) Goularte (alternatively Goutard) owned the property. Manuel immigrated to the US in 1909 from the Azore Islands. He is listed in the 1910 and 1920 US Census as a farmer. The Goulartes owned this property into the 1940s. In later years, Manuel worked doing odd jobs and as a gardener at a private home (Pleasanton 1912, 1940: US Census 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940). 536 St. John St. has many of the features of a modest, Queen Anne cottage from commonly constructed in Pleasanton in the late 19'" and early 201" centuries. The property acquired this appearance in the 1930s, however, when owners wanted to expand the property. It appears the Goulartes or their builder chose to model the expanded house on a common local building form. The property retains a high degree of integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling, association, and setting from the period of historic alteration, The property is not significantly associated with any historic events or persons in the history of Pleasanton. (continued on page 3) 811. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) 'B12. References: See page 3 B13. Remarks: 'B14. Evaluator: Elaine Stiles and Katherine Petrin Architectural Resources Group Pier 9, The Embarcadero San Francisco, CA 94111 'Date of Evaluation: April 2015 (This space reserved for official comments.) (Sketch Map with north arrow required.) Google Maps DPR 523B (1/95) 'Required Information