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D.9 - 1 HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION MAY 24, 2021 DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION PERMITS PR-2021-055337 2807 BONNIE ROAD PROPOSAL Demolish a ca. 1937 house with a ca. 1985 two-story addition. ARCHITECTURE One-story, rectangular-plan, hipped-roof stone veneered frame house with a projecting front- gabled street elevation containing a round-arched inset entry portico and two 1:1 windows with decorative wooden screens and a prominent attic vent; large one- and two story stucco non-historic addition to the rear right of the original structure. RESEARCH The house was built during the winter of 1936-37 by a local contractor who built a number of stone cottages in West Austin. The first owners and occupants were Bob and Ethel Dalton, who lived here from around 1937 until around 1948. Bob Dalton was a retail clothing salesman for a tailoring company out of Cincinnati, Ohio. He later opened a custom tailor shop in Austin; his wife Ethel was the co-owner of the business. After the Daltons moved to a house on Meadowbrook Drive in 1948, this house was purchased by Alton K. (Bill) and Marguerite Jarrell, who lived here at least through 1959. Bill Jarrell was in the home insulation business. STAFF COMMENTS The house is beyond the bounds of any City survey to date. Staff has evaluated this house for designation as a historic landmark and has determined that the house does not meet the criteria for landmark designation as set forth in City Code: a. Architecture. The original part of this house is a stone 1930s cottage, which was a style prevalent in this Tarrytown neighborhood, but which is rapidly disappearing. The original part of this house is intact, and could qualify for landmark designation under the architectural criterion, but the structure was added onto in the 1980s, according to city building permit records, significantly compromising its integrity. b. Historical association. The house had two owners during the majority of the historic period; the first was a clothing salesman who later established a custom tailor shop in Austin; the second was the owner of an insulation company; there do not appear to be significant historical associations. c. Archaeology. The house was not evaluated for its potential to yield significant data concerning the human history or prehistory of the region. d. Community value. The original house was a stone cottage dating to the late 1930s, and is characteristic of the early phases of construction in Tarrytown, but has been compromised by a large two-story addition. The house does not otherwise possess a unique location, physical characteristic, or significant feature that contributes to the character, image, or cultural identity of the city, the neighborhood, or a particular demographic group. e. Landscape feature. The property is not a significant natural or designed landscape with artistic, aesthetic, cultural, or historical value to the city. STAFF RECOMMENDATION  D.9 - 2 Encourage rehabilitation and adaptive re-use, then relocation over demolition of the original part of the house, but release the permit upon completion of a City of Austin Documentation Package, consisting of photographs of all elevations, a dimensioned sketch plan, and a narrative history, for archiving at the Austin History Center. The house does not meet the criteria for individual designation as a historic landmark.  LOCATION MAP D.9 - 3  D.9 - 4 2807 Bonnie Road ca. 1937 OCCUPANCY HISTORY 2807 Bonnie Road Alton K. Jarrell, owner No occupation listed City Directory Research, Austin History Center By City Historic Preservation Office January, 2021 1959 1957 1955 1952 1949 Alton K. and Marguerite Jarrell, owners Insulating contactor Alton K. and Marguerite Jarrell, owners No occupation listed Alton K. and Marguerite Jarrell, owners Jarrell Investors (not listed) Alton K. and Marguerite Jarrell, owners Secretary treasurer, Comfort, Inc., air conditioning, heating, insulating, 905 W. 5th Street. NOTE: Robert A. and Ethel Dalton are listed at 2100 Meadowbrook Drive; he was a salesman. Robert A. and Ethel Dalton, owners Salesman NOTE: Alton and Marguerite Jarrell are listed at 1202 W. 6th Street; he was a salesman. 1947  D.9 - 5 Robert A. and Ethel Dalton, owners Salesman Robert A. and Ethel Dalton, owners Salesman Robert A. and Ethel Dalton, owners No occupation listed The address is not listed in the directory. NOTE: Robert A. and Ethel Dalton are not listed in the directory. 1944 1941 1939 1937 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Robert A. And Ethel Dalton (ca. 1937 – ca. 1948) Robert Dalton married Ethel Creager in Travis County in 1934. Robert Arthur Dalton was living at this address at the time of his 1940 draft registration for World War II. He was born in 1907 in Wynne, Arkansas and was employed by the Hamilton Tailoring Company out of Cincinnati, Ohio. His next of kin was his wife, Ethel. He was 5’-11” tall, weighed 195 pounds, and had a ruddy complexion with brown hair and blue eyes. The 1940 U.S. Census shows Robert and Ethel Dalton as the owners of this house, which was worth $5,500. Robert Dalton was 33, had been born in Arkansas, and was a retail clothing salesman. Ethel Dalton was 32, had been born in Texas, and had no occupation listed. They had no children listed with them. Her 1978 death certificate shows that Ethel Dalton was living in an apartment at 600 W. 10th Street in Austin at the time of her death; she was married to Bob Dalton. She was born in Eastland County, Texas in 1908 and was the co-owner and corporate secretary of a tailoring company. Obituary of Ethel Dalton Austin American-Statesman, December 1, 1978 Robert A. Dalton married Carmen Smith in Travis County in 1980. He died in July, 1983.  D.9 - 6 Advertisement for Bob Dalton Custom Tailor Clothes Austin Statesman, December 7, 1966 Alton and Marguerite Jarrell (ca. 1948 - ) His 1940 World War II draft registration card shows that Alton Kelly Jarrell was living in Brownfield, Texas where he worked for the Reed Roller Bit company, presumably a manufacturer for oilfield drilling machinery. He listed an address in Odessa, Texas as well, and his closest contact was a  D.9 - 7 friend in Odessa. He was 5’-7” tall, weighed 145 pounds, and had a sallow complexion with brown hair and blue eyes. Alton Kelly Jarrell was born in 1913 in Augusta, Georgia, and was living at 2111 Vanderbilt Drive at the time of his death in 1966. He was a self-employed insulation contractor. Obituary of Alton K. Jarrell Austin Statesman, April 7, 1966 Marguerite Mitchell Jarrell was born in Weatherford, Texas in 1908 and died in Austin in 2001.  D.9 - 8 Water service permit for this address (November, 1936) 8 a