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HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION PERMITS IN NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICTS JUNE 28, 2021 HR-2021-082905; PR-2021-070768 WILSHIRE NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT 4200 LULLWOOD ROAD C.9 – 1 PROPOSAL PROJECT SPECIFICATIONS Partially demolish ca. 1948 contributing house; construct a two-story rear addition; and replace steel casement windows with fiberglass windows. 1) Demolition of rear garage and bedroom additions. 2) Construction of a new two-story addition within a similar footprint as the existing additions. The complex roof of the addition, with a central hip and gabled and hipped extensions, will largely appear side gabled as viewed from the front and will have composition shingles to match the house. The addition will be clad in fiber cement siding, with multi- light fixed and casement windows to match the proportions, size, and design of the replacement windows for the house. 3) Replacement of original steel casement windows with fixed or casement fiberglass windows. The specified windows are Andersen 100 series in dark bronze with full divided lights. ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH This side-gabled Ranch-style house sits within an expansive yard with mature oak trees, as is characteristic of the Wilshire National Register District. The front entrance is slightly recessed, next to a projecting front-facing gable. The house is clad in random ashlar limestone, with horizontal siding in the gable ends and on rear additions. Windows are single or groupings of up to four steel casement windows. The house at 4200 Lullwood Road was constructed around 1948 and owned by Hilton E. and Eleanor Nau through at least 1959. The Naus are known for founding Nau’s Enfield Drug Store, which remains in operation at W. 12th and West Lynn streets in the West Line National Register District. Historically, multiple drug stores bore the Nau name, most owned by Hilton’s older brother Ladner. Ladner Nau came to Austin in 1926 to go to pharmacy school at the University of Texas. After working at a drug store for a couple of years, he and the proprietor of that store opened the Community Drug Store at 1201 E. 1st (Cesar Chavez) and Waller streets. Shortly thereafter, he bought the business outright. In 1935, Ladner established Nau’s San Jacinto Drug Store at 1819–21 San Jacinto St. This location remained in operation for nearly 30 years. Nau’s Drug Store No. 2 at 913 E. 1st St. operated under the management of Maynard Anderson from at least 1949 through 1959. In 1964, Ladner Nau closed the San Jacinto location and opened Nau’s Pharmacy at 2405 San Gabriel St. Though Ladner had retired, the pharmacy remained open in 1980, but neither the business nor the building presently remains. Hilton Nau also attended the University of Texas. Per City Directories, he worked as a pharmacist at the San Jacinto Drug Store in 1937 but by 1939 had co-founded Nau’s Nueces Drug Co. with Ladner. Hilton married Eleanor Liebscher in 1945. In 1951, the couple established Nau’s Enfield Drug Store. Eleanor Nau did the bookkeeping, continuing for years after the couple sold the business to pharmacist Lambert Labay in 1972. Labay continues to operate the drugstore and soda fountain. STANDARDS FOR REVIEW Repair and alterations The City of Austin’s Historic Design Standards (March 2021) are based on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and are used to evaluate projects in National Register Historic Districts. The following standards apply to the proposed project: 5.1 Repair, rather than replace, historic windows, doors, and screens; and their trim, surrounds, sidelights, transoms, and shutters, unless they are deteriorated beyond the point of stabilization or restoration. Retain windows if 50% or more of the wood or metal sash members are intact. The project involves replacement of original steel casement windows with new fiberglass fixed or casement windows. While C.9 – 2 specific information regarding the condition of the windows was not provided with the submission, steel casement windows are typically repairable, and their removal may require intrusive work to dismantle and reinstall the masonry veneer around the window openings. Other measures to improve energy efficiency—such as installation of interior storm windows, window film, or retrofitting with insulating glazing units—should be considered in lieu of replacement. The project does not meet this standard. 5.3 If historic windows must be replaced, match the size and details of the existing window, including configuration, profile, and finish. Take into account elements such as frames, sashes, muntins, sills, heads, moldings, surrounds, hardware, and shutters. Accurate replication of the appearance of steel casement windows is challenging in other materials. While the proposed windows will have a general rhythm of horizontal and vertical divisions similar to the original windows, they will not provide a match. Each original window unit consists of paired casement sashes with four lights each under a two-light fixed transom. This gives an overall appearance of a 2- by 5-light configuration. The proposed new windows have a 2- by 4-light configuration. The muntin grids available for the proposed fiberglass windows have a wider profile more reminiscent of wood sash windows. The expression of the thicker edges of the casement sashes, in contrast with extremely thin muntins, is necessary to accurately capture the appearance of the steel windows. While this can be achieved in alternate materials such as aluminum, it is through custom-designed windows (see for example the National Park Service’s Preservation Tech Notes: Windows No. 12: https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/tech-notes/Tech-Notes-Windows12.pdf). The project does not meet this standard. 5.8 If a historic window or door is missing, replace it with a new unit based on documentation of the historic feature. If no documentation exists, use a new design compatible with the historic opening and the historic character of the building. It is unclear if the existing front door is original. The proposed two-panel front door is compatible with the character of the house. Residential additions 1.1 Locate additions to the rear and sides of historic buildings to minimize visual impact. 1.3 If an addition adds a story to the historic building, set it back from the front wall to minimize visual impact. 1.3 a. If the historic building has a side-gabled, cross-gabled, hipped, or pyramidal roof form, set the addition behind the roof ridgeline or peak. The proposed two-story addition is set well behind the ridgeline of the side-gabled roof of the house. It is largely behind the back wall of the house but extends slightly over the back wall at the second story. 1.5 Minimize the loss of historic fabric by connecting additions to the existing building through the least possible invasive location and means. The proposed addition connects to the house where an addition currently exists. While limited removal of the original rear wall will occur, the plan primarily makes use of existing openings. 2.1 Design an addition to complement the scale and massing of the historic building, including height. The addition must appear subordinate to the historic building. 2.2 Minimize the appearance of the addition from the street faced by the historic building’s front wall. 2.2 b. The historic building’s overall shape as viewed from the street must appear relatively unaltered. The addition will be minimally visible from the front of the house and will not significantly alter the view from the street. 3.1 Design additions to be compatible with and differentiated from the historic building, if they are visible from the street. The addition will be differentiated from the historic house through its two-story form but compatible in its design, as further explained through the following standards. 4.1 If an addition will be visible from a street on the front or side, design its roof form and slope to complement the roof on the historic building. 4.2 Use roof materials that match or have similar color, texture, and other visual qualities as the roof on the historic building. As viewed from the street, the roof of the addition will have a similar pitch and roof form as that of the house. Roofing will be composition shingles to match the roof on the house. 5.1 If an addition will be visible from a street on the front or side, use exterior wall materials that are compatible with those on the historic building, as well as with the character of the district, in scale, type, material, size, finish, and texture. 5.2 Differentiate the exterior wall materials of the addition from those of the historic building. This could be accomplished by using different materials, using the same materials with different dimensions, or changing trim type or dimensions. The horizontal fiber cement siding resembles the horizontal wood siding of used in the gable ends on the house but is differentiated from the primary limestone cladding. 6.1 If an addition will be visible from a street on the front or side, use windows that are compatible with those on the existing building in terms of material, fenestration pattern, size, proportion, configuration, and profile. The windows of the addition are of the same size and proportions as many on the house and have a similar light pattern. C.9 – 3 The proposed addition meets the applicable standards. STAFF COMMENTS The house is contributing to the Wilshire National Register District. Designation Criteria—Historic Landmark 1) The building is more than 50 years old. 2) The building appears to retain high integrity. 3) Properties must meet two criteria for landmark designation (LDC §25-2-352). Staff has evaluated the property and determined that it may meet two criteria: Wilshire National Register district. a. Architecture. The building is a good example of the limestone-clad Ranch-style architecture prevalent in the b. Historical association. The property was associated with Hilton and Eleanor Nau during the period in which the couple established and operated Nau’s Enfield Drug Store. As such, it may have significant historical associations with this legacy business. c. Archaeology. The property was not evaluated for its potential to yield significant data concerning the human history or prehistory of the region. d. Community value. The property does not 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. COMMITTEE FEEDBACK Not reviewed. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Encourage retention of original steel casement windows on the façade, but comment on and release the permit upon completion of a City of Austin Documentation Package. LOCATION MAP C.9 – 4 PROPERTY INFORMATION Photos C.9 – 5 Cox McLain Environmental Consulting and Preservation Central, Inc., Historic Resources Survey of North Loop, Hancock, and Upper Boggy Creek Planning Areas, Austin, TX, draft survey report, 2020 C.9 – 6 Source: Applicant, 2021 Notes: Hilton E. and Eleanor Nau lived at 3407 Robinson Ave.; manager, Nueces Drug Occupancy History City Directory Research, April 2021 1947 Address not listed 1949 1952 1955 1957 1959 Hilton E. and Eleanor Nau, owners Nueces Drug (601 ½ W 19th Street) Hilton E. and Eleanor Nau, owners Nueces Drug (address not listed) Hilton E. and Eleanor Nau, owners Enfield Drug Store (1115 West Lynn) Hilton E. and Elanor Nau, owners Nau’s Enfield Drug Store (1115 West Lynn) Hilton E. and Eleanor H. Nau, owners Hilton – Nau Enfield Drug Store (1115 West Lynn) Eleanor – Bookkeeper, Nau Enfield Drug Store Biographical Information C.9 – 7 World War II draft card, Hilton Ernest Nau C.9 – 8 Nau’s Enfield Drug Store grand opening, The Austin Statesman, 12/17/1951 The Austin Statesman, 3/11/1952 C.9 – 9 Information on San Jacinto Drug Store owned by Hilton Nau’s brother, Ladner Nau, The Austin Statesman, 7/13/1935 C.9 – 10 Information on pharmacies owned by Hilton Nau’s brother, Ladner Nau, The Austin American-Statesman, 3/6/1980 C.9 – 11 Lottery won't change Nau's -- and people like it that way Mike Kelley 792 words 25 March 2000 Austin American-Statesman AAS A1 English © 2000 Austin American Statesman. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved. Nau's Enfield Drug looks and feels just about like it did when it opened in 1951. And since most folks who trade there know most of the other folks who trade there, word got around fast this week that this was where a $28 million Texas Lottery ticket was purchased and that Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson had bought it. "Everybody is elated," said Martha Taylor, behind the front counter. "They're happy for the store and the fun of it. Everybody's heard about it." Nau's, at West 12th and West Lynn streets, caters to a mix of not- at-all-wealthy and wealthy-indeed customers. And it was famous in its part of town long before Henderson -- of Dallas Cowboys fame -- saw a football. Lambert Labay got his first job there in 1963, fresh out of the University of Texas Pharmacy College, working for owners Hilton and Eleanor Nau. In 1972, he bought the place and kept the name. When he got a telephone call about 8:30 a.m. Thursday from an employee telling him that the winning ticket had been bought at the store, Labay wondered whether "he was just joshing me." Who ever holds the license to sell lottery tickets collects 1 percent of the jackpot for a winning ticket. In Labay's case, that meant $280,000, which would be about five years' worth of profits. His employee wasn't joshing. "What went through my head," Labay said Friday, "was things I've intended to do but couldn't for financial reasons. My soda fountain needs some major repair work, quite expensive, and I've been putting that off. . . . My employees get a bonus every year, so maybe this year it'll be a little bit better." As with any real drugstore, the heart of Nau's is the soda fountain, 12 orange seats lined around the U-shaped, green Formica- topped counter, all from 1951. Next to the counter are four booths, solid wood. And there are three wooden tables and their old, familiar ice-cream-parlor chairs with heart-shaped wire backs. At one of those tables, a customer spotted Labay. "Mr. Famous," he said. Labay smiled. At the counter, Austin lawyer David Brooks was having lunch. He lives across town, but he comes here for the burgers. Of the store's windfall, he said, "I certainly think they should distribute it among the employees and the longtime customers who have been here more than 10 or 15 years. I happen to have been coming here for 18 to 20 years." He was joking. As was George Alvarez, one of the store's 10 employees. He's seen Henderson, who lives nearby, only a couple of times, and doesn't really know him. He'd hoped the winner would be one of the customers he knows better because "I've been promised many trips to Europe if they win." Ann Butler, wife of former Austin Mayor Roy Butler, dropped by to tell Labay congratulations. She's been trading at Nau's for years. And for years, Nau's has remained Nau's. The milkshake machines are jade-green Hamilton Beach, right out of "Happy Days." You can get a banana split or ice cream sodas in chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, cherry or pineapple. You can buy an Archie comic book or a Captain Marvel, which a sign urges you to purchase before reading. You can buy hard candies and crutches, stuffed animals and heating pads, postcards, greeting cards, a ceramic pig or perfume. This is where the neighbors come to post notices. A dog's been found. Mathews Elementary School is having open-house tours. The Clarksville Community Development Board has a meeting scheduled. There's a children's mask-making workshop. "This is a neighborhood pharmacy," Labay said. "It's a place where most people know my name, and they know each other. . . . I have lots of people who have gone to school here come back years later, come in the store, and say, 'Oh my gosh, it looks just like when I went to school; don't ever change.' That seems to be real important to a lot of people. "And it's not going to change. Just business as usual." Except that, at least for a while, Nau's may sell a few more lottery tickets. You may contact Mike Kelley at mkelley@statesman.com or 445-3627. COLOR PHOTOS; Photo: Larry Kolvoord/AA-S; For the most part, time has stood still at Nau's Enfield Drug. On Friday, Annette Veloz straightened up the counter -- green Formica from 1951 -- as Austin lawyer David Brooks enjoyed lunch. C.9 – 12 Austin American Statesman All were family at her drugstore Melissa Ludwig, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF 534 words 11 April 2005 Austin American-Statesman AAS B1 English © 2005 Austin American Statesman. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved. When the march of computers transformed Austin into a high-tech city, it bypassed Nau's Enfield Drug Store. With its old-timey soda fountain and homemade pimiento cheese sandwiches, the iconic pharmacy has barely budged toward progress since Hilton and Eleanor Nau opened it in 1951. Eleanor Nau, who died Saturday at the age of 95, kept the books by hand until she was 87, using an ancient adding machine and paying the employees cash in brown envelopes, said Brenda Kruemcke, Nau's great-niece. "It was a traditional small-town-in-a-big-town kind of pharmacy," said Kruemcke, 51. "The customers were like family. She knew intimate details of everyone's life, yet she never discussed them." Nau grew up a "country girl" in Giddings, Kruemcke said. In 1945, she married the love of her life, pharmacist Hilton Ernest Nau, after he returned from World World II. The couple opened their first pharmacy on Nueces Street soon afterward, working from early morning until the wee hours of the night to develop the business. But it was the second pharmacy, Nau's Enfield Drug Store on West Lynn, that became the center of their lives, Kruemcke said. Eleanor, a tall looker with flawless skin and an outgoing personality, took care of the books and purchased knickknacks for the store while her more reserved husband filled prescriptions, family members said. She loved to talk to everyone who bellied up to the lunch counter for a hamburger or a malt. "She truly was stunning and very sharp-witted," Kruemcke said. "She lost an eye to cancer very young, but you never knew she had a glass eye; she was just so elegant." The couple never had children, but Eleanor raised her nephew Marvin and took care of her mother and a friend's mother before they died. In 1972, the Naus sold the store to Lambert Labay, a pharmacist who started working there as a young student and had become like a son to the couple. Labay insisted that Eleanor remain the pharmacy's bookkeeper and even brought the ledgers to her bedside when a back injury forced her to retire at 87, Kruemcke said. The Naus were die-hard fans of the University of Texas, and their den was a blur of burnt orange, Kruemcke said. They even chose their gravesites in Oakwood Cemetery near the stadium so they could continue to watch the games. Hilton Nau died in 1990. "They hired so many UT students over the years, and they took each one in as family; they would feed them, pay them, listen to them, parent them," Kruemcke said. Even as Nau's health failed, Kruemcke said, she would not relinquish her lifelong beauty routines. Her hair was done, and her nails and lips were painted red, she said. "She was a true Southern woman," Kruemcke said. "It wasn't glamour; it was an identity of who you were: always dressed, always with your lipstick on." Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Weed- Corley-Fish Chapel, with burial at Oakwood Cemetery. C.9 – 13 mludwig@statesman.com; 246-0043 Austin American Statesman ELEANOR HELEN LIEBSCHER NAU was born November 12, 1909, in Giddings, Texas, to Richard and Sophie (Schlottman) Liebscher and died April 9, 2005. Eleanor reached the age of 95 years and five months. She was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Giddings, Texas. She attended Good Hope School, Giddings High School and attended Business College in Dallas. She married Hilton Ernest Nau on September 28, 1945, in San Antonio, Texas. Eleanor and Hilton, in partnership with Hilton’s brother, Ladner Nau, opened their first drug store, Nueces Drug Store. In 1951, Eleanor and Hilton began the legacy of Nau’s Enfield Drug Store. This Austin landmark continues to operate today under the ownership of Lambert Labay, Eleanor’s choice to continue the dream she and Hilton started. Eleanor viewed all the employees and patrons of Nau’s Enfield Drug Store as family and she continued to keep the books, long after she had sold the business. She retired from Nau’s Enfield Drug Store at the age of 87. Eleanor attended First English Lutheran Church in Austin, where she was active until her retirement. Eleanor spent many volunteer hours as part of St. David’s Volunteer Auxiliary Association. Eleanor spent the last years of her life at Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village in Brenham, Texas. Not only during the last years of poor health, but through the years, Eleanor was faithfully and lovingly cared for by Rita and Marvin Christiansen. Frequent visitors who brought joy to Eleanor were her two favorite Pomeranians, Sassy and Mandy. Eleanor was known for her elegance and beauty and Rita always made sure that Eleanor had her trademark lipstick and her classic red fingernails. Eleanor was preceded in death by her husband, Hilton Ernest Nau, her parents Richard and Sophie Liebscher, sisters Clara Liebscher Christiansen, Gussie Liebscher Woodcock, brother Herman Liebscher, and her nephew, James Christiansen. She is survived by nephews and nieces, Marvin and Rita Christiansen of Brenham, Texas, Charles and Edna Christiansen of Newport News, Virginia, Vernell Christiansen Kruemcke of Giddings, Texas, Carol Anne and A.J. Stayton of Cat Spring, Texas, niece-in-law Florence Christiansen of Waller, Texas, sister-in-law Kathryn Nau of Austin, Texas, and numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews. Find A Grave, Eleanor Helen Liebscher Nau, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11345929/eleanor-helen-nau Permits Building permit, 1948 C.9 – 14 Sewer tap permit, 1948 C.9 – 15 Water tap permit, 1957