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<br />Hardware (1896), at 600 Main Street, 1s
<br />[he most elaborate of these storefronts
<br />with a corner turret and a bracke [ed
<br />cornice with swag frieze.
<br />the Pleasanton Ho [el (originally the
<br />Farmer's Hoee l) is compositionally and
<br />ornamentally atypical, as it was
<br />reconstructed in 1915 as a pastiche of
<br />19th century motifs. (The L851 dale of
<br />construction, as stated on the present
<br />building plaque, is arguable.)
<br />One Victorian residence survives on Hain
<br />Street, Che Jerome Arendt House of about
<br />1880. I[ is a good example of late
<br />Italiana[e residential design, with ~
<br />heavily bracketed roof cornice, window
<br />cornices and eave returns.
<br />Several substantial brick commercial
<br />structures survive in [he downtown area.
<br />(This is not aurprising, given the
<br />proximity of the Remillard brick plane.)
<br />Aside from the one-story building with
<br />corbelled brick cornice at 443 Main Street
<br />(c. 1895), the remaining structures are
<br />two stories in height, with accentuated
<br />cornices, parapets and arched windows.
<br />Storefronts on the ground Level generally
<br />have less glazing than in wooden
<br />strucwres of the same period. The
<br />Johnston Building at 465 Main Street,
<br />built in 1896, and the Arendt Commission
<br />House and General Merchandise Store, 450
<br />Main Street, built about the same time,
<br />face each other on Main Street. The P.V.
<br />We ing 5 Co. Building, at 62 WesC Neal
<br />Street, was built in the 1880's and is
<br />unique in Pleasanton for its irregular
<br />plan and its diagonal corner entrance.
<br />2. Mission Revival (c. 1900 - 1915)
<br />The project area has an unusually large
<br />number of buildings in this style.
<br />Generally they are of wood-frame
<br />construction, clad Sn stucco. Identifying
<br />motifs include arched openings, over-
<br />hanging red-tiled roofs with exposed roof
<br />rafters and, most obviously, [he curved
<br />Mission-style parapet. The earliest
<br />example in the project area is the
<br />LO.O.F. Building (1901), though most
<br />examples of the style in Pleasanton were
<br />boil[ around 1910. These include [he
<br />First National Bank Building (1910), a row
<br />of buildings extending north from this
<br />building, and a small office building at
<br />[he northwest corner of Main Street and
<br />Rose Avenue, built around 1910 for Do E.
<br />Harnes. The Western Pacific Depot, also
<br />built around 1910 on Rose Avenue, was an
<br />important example of [he style and has
<br />since been demolished. The old Cicy Hall,
<br />constructed in 1914 at 603 Main Street, is
<br />a subdued version of the style.
<br />3. Parapeted Commercial (c. 1915 - 1930)
<br />Typical commercial buildings of Che period
<br />from World War Ito about 1930 were of
<br />brick construction, with a stepped
<br />parapet. Christesen's, a[ 629-33 Pia in
<br />Se reef, and the Cheese Factory, across
<br />from [he Pleasanton Hotel, are two
<br />examples, both construe [ed about 1920.
<br />4. Pfedite rranean (c. 1925 - 1940)
<br />Popular between the late 1920's and World
<br />War II, this style was an outgrowth of the
<br />Pli ss ion Bevival, sharing such motifs as
<br />stuccoed walls and red-tiled roofs. The
<br />most important examples of [he style are
<br />the Veteran's Building at 301 Main Street,
<br />of about 1930, and [he gas station at the
<br />northwest corner of Main and St. Plary
<br />Streets. The office building at 800 Main
<br />Street is the other major example.
<br />Two important buildings in the project
<br />area fall outside Che above categories.
<br />The Southern Pacific Depot (1901), a
<br />wood-framed wood-clad structure, was
<br />designed in a functional non-ornamental
<br />style. Its hismrical importance to the
<br />development of Pleasanton overshadows its
<br />architectural quality. 11ie Arendt
<br />Building (former Bank of America), at 500
<br />Plain S[ree t, was built about 1910. Its
<br />restrained classical detailing and
<br />re la cively sophisticated composition are
<br />unique to Pleasanton.
<br />® THE DOWNTOWN
<br />REVITALIZATION
<br />DISTRICT
<br />The windshield survey of Downtown
<br />Pleasan[on's historic and archt [ectural
<br />resources was CM first step leading [o
<br />construction of boundaries and
<br />implementation measures for a Ibwn[own
<br />Revitalization Ois tt ic[. The survey
<br />idencif ied iwo levels of resources:
<br />1) primary resources, which are [hose
<br />buildings and structures possessing
<br />poteneial eligibility for listing on the
<br />National Register of Historic Places; and
<br />2) secondary resources, which are [hose
<br />buildings and structures making a
<br />collective or background contribution to
<br />the distinctive character of Downtown
<br />Pleasanton. (A map indicating the
<br />location of these primary and secondary
<br />resources is on file with the City's
<br />Department of Planning and Community
<br />Development.)
<br />In addition to iden[ificacion of downtown
<br />area resources, consideration of dis[ricc
<br />boundaries also took into account land use
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