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• January 18, 2016 536 St. John Sr. e'r 4372 Pleasanton Ave., Pleasanton Project Evaluation Introduction This evaluation addresses the two above properties, both located within Downtown Pleasanton (see Downtown Design Guidelines, p6). The Former property houses a single - family residence that has been identified as an historic resource for planning purposes under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The latter property houses a residence that has been identified as lacking his- toric resource potential. The specific purpose of this evaluation effort is to address historic resource issues concerning the proposed relocation of the house at 536 St. John Street to the 4372 Pleasanton Avenue site. Summary History The property at 536 St. John St. houses a one -story over a partial basement, single - family residence on an open lot, set back some thirty feet from the sidewalk, with an entry path centered on the house, a driveway to the right (west) side, a small detached storage building behind the house, and a garage at the rear of the lot. The property is surrounded by larger, multi - family buildings. [lased on a recent historic resource inventory (attached), the house originally dates to 1900 but was substantially altered and added to in 1930, which is its present character. While its recreation was somewhat out of date even at the time of its alteration, its architecture is that of a Victorian (Queen Anne) Cottage and, also based on the record, its identified characteristics include: • Partial length engaged front porch with square balustrade, turned posts and brackets, and square spindle screen • Centered main entrance fitted with historic, glazed wood door • 1/1 and 2/2 double -hung wood windows • Wood channel board siding • Wide frieze and applied acanthus ornament on rear section of main block, indicating original main block (constructed before 1907). The historic record concludes that the building at 536 St. John St. — specifically its architecture — are distinctive and, on that basis, eligible for the California Register of Historical Resources (under CR criterion 3). The record additionally concludes that "536 St. John St. has many of the features of a modest, Queen Anne cottage form commonly constructed in Pleasanton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... ", adding that the residence "acquired this appearance in the 193Os." Additionally, the "property retains a high degree of integrity of design, materials, workmanship, feeling, association, and setting from the period of historic alteration." An enclosed porch with modern siding and sliding sash windows, located at the rear end of the east elevation, is not potentially historic, nor is the partial basement below the rear portion of the struc- ture, and neither the property's detached storage outbuilding behind the house nor the garage at the rear of die lot are potentially historic. As noted, the proposed project would relocate the 536 St. John St. building to another residential site in the immediate neighborhood (fig.I), in so doing displacing another older residence yet which has been identified as not potentially historic (see 4372 Pleasanton Ave. HRI, attached). 446 17th Street #302 Oakland 94612 510 418 0285 mhulhertcTvearthlin!<.ne: