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Let’s paint in our artist friend Erin’s neighborhood of Oxnard. You are free to roam and choose what you find appealing. Registered landmark suggestions listed below. Print out the list if you want to decide when you arrive, or research ahead of time. Stay near Erin’s if you need access to a restroom. [319 South F Street Oxnard](* If you are hoping to enter your ptg into our historic landmarks show, be sure to record the address!)
Visiting artist Duerre Waseem will be joining us!
The Oxnard Historic District is F & G streets, within Magnolia Ave to the north, W Fifth to the south. Here are also some registered landmarks outside this zone, but nearby:
#158 Swift Residence and Lying-In Hospital, 838-840 West Fifth Street:
This 1.1-acre site contains a residence built around 1926 for Dr. Floyd J. Swift and a small office/hospital that was built in 1928. Walls and courtyards form an integral unit connecting the two buildings. The residential area of houses was built between the 1910s and 1930s. The residence is located on the east side of the property and has a rectangular plan with a low-pitched side facing gable roof with a cross gable on the west side. A chimney rises in a stepped fashion adjacent to the porch and punctuates the roofline. The roof is covered with wooden shingles and the house with a smooth stucco finish. The office/hospital building is located on the west side of the property and faces Fifth Street. It is a one story modified L-shaped building with a two-story portion at the southern end. The medium gable roof has exposed rafters under the shallow eves. Punctuating the roofline are two chimneys and an octagonal hipped roof tower. Windows are multi-paned double hung wood sash and casement windows. All buildings are joined by a series of interconnecting walls and brick patios creating interior courtyards. The stucco walls, undulating in laces, are approximately six feet tall and have a brick cap. The round arched openings contain wood gates with wrought iron hinges.
#175 J. A. Swartz Residence, 636 West Fifth Street:
This 1929-30 Spanish Colonial Revival-style, one-story residence was built and designed by J. A. Swartz and features a T-shape plan. The residence is clad in stucco siding with intersecting gables and pitched shed roofs of Mission tile. A central tower has a small, entry window with Spanish-style grille work. Architecturally, the property is among the finer examples of the Spanish Colonial Revival style applied to a residence in the early downtown core of Oxnard. Swartz was a significant builder that specialized in and attracted high-end properties for other historically contributing individuals from various professional fields that developed the city and surrounding agricultural areas and industries. The quality and endurance of his work identifies him as a historically significant contributor to the development of Oxnard, particularly at the onset of the Great Depression.
#171 Bon Ton Court, 531 South F Street:
The Bon Ton Court is an eight-unit, Spanish Revival-style bungalow court complex built in 1926 for Fred L. Bonn and his wife, Lula M. Bonn. Mr. Bonn was a dehydrator operator for the oil industry. The couple resided in one of the units after Bon Ton Court was completed. Over the years, the Bon Ton Court provided a home for working-class Oxnard citizens. The bungalow courtyard complex was designed in a u-shaped arrangement known as the u-court that was popular in the early 20th Century in California, Florida, and southern Arizona. The u-court is the most common and typical plan with buildings on three sides facing a central open space and landscaped area. The bungalow court is arranged in a u-shaped plan and consists of a duplex and single unit on one side facing a duplex and single unit on the other side. At the rear, connecting the u-plan is a duplex. A long, rectangular-shaped, eight-bay garage complex is located behind the complex and fronting the alleyway. In the middle of the complex is a rectangular courtyard with a centered scored concrete walkway leading to the front entry of each unit.
#173 McColm Manor Apartments, 534-542 South F Street:
This 12-unit apartment complex known as McColm Manor was completed in 1950 for Ralph C. and Sofia McColm. Ralph Carter McColm was born in Kansas in 1893, practiced as a chiropractor in Washington in the late 1920s and moved to California with his wife in the late 1940s. They lived in Ojai and Santa Barbara and invested heavily in real estate and real estate development around Ventura County. The property is an example of the “u-parti” form of courtyard apartment complexes, as defined in the typology created by Polyzoides, et. al., 1992. One of the most common courtyard types built in Southern Califonia, the u-parti is defined by building masses enclosing a courtyard on three sides with an opening facing the street. The courtyard in this type is often “completed with a thin wall screen connecting the two front bars of the U,” a detail seen in this property. The buildings’ style is Minimal Traditional, a popularized form of the Modern style that incorporates familiar design elements derived from historical architectural styles into otherwise Modern buildings. The low-pitched, hipped roof, boxes eaves, and faux shutters seen on this property are representative of this approach.
#73 Murphy House, 205 South F Street,
#74 Henry Levy House, 155 South G Street
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319 South F Street Oxnard, CA 93030, 319 S F St, Oxnard, CA 93030-5802, United States,Oxnard, California
