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HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION PERMITS JUNE 28, 2021 PR-2021-061472; GF-2021-080345 2903 BREEZE TERRACE D.4 – 1 PROPOSAL ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH Demolish a ca. 1946 house and ca. 1951 accessory dwelling unit and carport. One-story Minimal Traditional house with asbestos cladding and a hipped roof. The front porch is inset and features a metal railing with modest Art Moderne influences. Windows are multi-light steel casement and 1:1 wood sash. Behind the house is an apartment with vertical grooved siding, surmounted by a hipped roof with an integral carport. Hubert S. and Mary K. Wall owned the house from the late 1940s through 1971 or later. Mary Kate Wall (nee Parker, 1912- 1998) was an attorney and, until her retirement in 1970, the state’s leading authority on election law. After earning an LL.B. with honors from the University of Texas, she was licensed to practice law in 1934. Beginning in 1950, she worked for 17 years as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas, where she was as an elections expert and wrote the state’s first modern election code. In 1967, Mary Kate Wall joined the Secretary of State’s office and headed their elections division. In addition to writing significant opinions regarding election proceedings, she trained local elections officials, the League of Women Voters, and others through speaking engagements. Dr. Hubert Stanley Wall (1902–1971) was a professor of mathematics. He taught at Northwestern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology before coming to the University of Texas in 1946, where he spent the remainder of his career. Dr. Wall’s focus was continued fractions, studied since Euclid and written as fractions within fractions. His book The Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions is considered a standard reference in this field. He was also known for a teaching method in which he sought to develop the creative capacity of students to provide proofs of complex mathematical theorems. During the 1950s, the back apartment on the property was occupied by Rosealthe Parker, Mary Kate Wall’s mother. STAFF COMMENTS The 2020 draft report Historic Resources Survey of North Loop, Hancock, and Upper Boggy Creek Planning Areas lists the property as a medium priority but does not recommend a historic district in this area. 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 it may meet two criteria: a. Architecture. The house is a typical example of the Minimal Traditional style, with limited modifications made during the historic period by the Wall family. b. Historical association. The house is associated with Texas’s foremost election law authority in the mid- twentieth century, attorney Mary Kate Wall, and internationally known mathematics professor Hubert S. Wall. 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. STAFF RECOMMENDATION Consider initiation of historic zoning. Should the Commission choose to release the demolition permit, encourage rehabilitation or relocation, then require completion of a City of Austin Documentation Package prior to permit issuance. LOCATION MAP D.4 – 2 PROPERTY INFORMATION Photos D.4 – 3 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 D.4 – 4 Applicant, 2021 Occupancy History City Directory Research, Historic Preservation Office, 2021 D.4 – 5 Address not listed Garland F. and Jonita M. Johnston, owners Deputy County Clerk Hubert S. and Mary K. Wall, owners Hubert – Professor, University of Texas Mary – Office secretary, State Supreme Court Hubert S. and Mary K. Wall, owners Hubert – Professor, University of Texas Mary – Assistant State Attorney General Hubert S. and Mary K. Wall, owners Hubert – Professor University of Texas Mary – Legislative assistant, State Attorney General ½ - Rosealthe Parker, renter (widow Jas.) Occupation not listed Hubert S. and Mary K. Wall, owners Hubert – Professor, University of Texas Mary – Legislative assistant, State Attorney General ½ - Rosealthe Parker, renter (widow Jas.) Occupation not listed 1944 1947 1949 1952 1955 1957 1959 Hubert S. and Mary K. Wall, owners Hubert – Professor, University of Texas Mary – Assistant attorney general, Attorney General’s Department (Land Division) ½ - Rosealthe Parker, renter (widow Jas.) Occupation not listed Historical Information D.4 – 6 The Austin American, 10/26/1947, and The Austin Statesman, 3/5/1953 and 3/14/1961 D.4 – 7 The Austin Statesman, 9/12/1967 and 4/5/1970 D.4 – 8 The Austin American, 4/18/1964; The Austin Statesman, 8/13/966; and The Austin American, 1/5/1969 D.4 – 9 The Austin Statesman, 9/13/1971 Permits D.4 – 10 Building permits, 1946 D.4 – 11 Remodeling permits, 1951 Sewer tap permit, 1946  D.4 – 12 Water tap permit, 1946 6/16/2021 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 - AncestryLibrary.com Mary Kate Wall in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Detail Source Name: Mary Kate Wall [Mary K Wall] [Mary Kate Parker] Gender: Female Race: White Birth Date: 7 Aug 1912 Birth Place: Bertram Burn, Texas Death Date: 31 May 1998 Father: James F Parker Mother: Rosalthe L Lawhon SSN: 463600417 Notes: Jul 1955: Name listed as MARY KATE WALL; 22 Jul 1994: Name listed as MARY K WALL © 2021 Ancestry.com https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/24306718:60901?tid=&pid=&queryId=b5b9ffb0a764027393c2e5295d937b15&_phsrc=ksY41… 1/1 Hubert Stanley Wall Hubert Stanley Wall (December 2, 1902 – September 12, 1971)[2][3] was an American mathematician who worked primarily in the field of continued fractions. He is also known as one of the leading proponents of the Moore method of teaching. Contents Early life and education Selected publications Career Notes External links Early life and education Wall was born in Rockwell City, Iowa on December 2, 1902. He received the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa in 1924. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin–Madison) in 1927.[3] He married Mary Kate Parker, a lawyer and Texas assistant Attorney General. Her specialty was election law. Career Hubert Stanley Wall Born Died December 2, 1902 Rockwell City, Iowa September 12, 1971 (aged 68) Austin, Texas Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison Known for Continued fractions Moore method Scientific career Fields Mathematician Institutions Northwestern University Institute for Advanced Study Illinois Institute of Technology University of Texas Doctoral advisor Doctoral students Edward Burr Van Vleck Dan Mauldin, Coke Reed[1] Upon receiving his Ph.D. Wall joined the faculty at Northwestern University and stayed until 1944 except for the academic year 1938–1939 when he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.[3] He then went to the Illinois Institute of Technology for two years before moving in 1946 to the University of Texas where he spent the rest of his career.[3][4]:235 He became an emeritus professor in 1970.[2] Most of Wall's mathematical research was in various aspects of the analytic theory of continued fractions. This included the theory of positive-definite continued fractions, convergence results for continued fractions, parabola theorems, Hausdorff moments, and Hausdorff summability.[5] He studied the polynomials now named Wall polynomials after him. While at Northwestern he started a collaboration with Ernst Hellinger, and he was very interested in Hellinger integrals throughout his career, but did publish anything on them.[3][4]:235 [5] While at Texas Wall was a prominent practitioner of the Moore method of teaching. John Parker wrote, "Wall had long ago thrown himself wholeheartedly into the Moore tradition, with his own interpretation of the Moore method, and there was a good deal of cross pollination of students through their courses, some steered to the PhD by Moore and others by Wall and [Hyman J.] Ettlinger. Between them, they continued to dominate PhD guidance in Pure Mathematics throughout the 1950s and 1960s."[4]:285 The University of Texas memorial to Wall suggests that he may have picked up some of these ideas at Northwestern from Van Vleck and Hellinger and says, "Since there were already people on the Texas faculty who had used innovative techniques (chiefly Robert Lee Moore and some of his colleagues), Wall tried their methods. For him and for his students it was an unqualified success."[3]:3 Wall had 66 doctoral students, 61 at the University of Texas.[6] Wall died in Austin on September 12, 1971.[2] Selected publications Wall, H. S. (2000) [1948]. Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions. Providence: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-2106-0. OCLC 43311799 (https://www.worldcat.org/oc lc/43311799).[7] Wall, H. S. (1969) [1963]. Creative Mathematics. Univ of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-71039-9. Notes 1. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=7952 2. "Wall, Hubert Stanley" (https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri03marq/page/752). Who Was Who in America. V. Marquis Who's Who. 1973. pp. 752 (https://archive.org/details/whowas whoinameri03marq/page/752). ISBN 0-8379-0205-3. OCLC 13864526 (https://www.worldcat.or g/oclc/13864526). 3. "In Memoriam Hubert Stanley Wall" (http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorial s/SCANNED/wall.pdf) (PDF). Memorial Resolutions and Biographical Sketches. University of Texas at Austin Faculty Council. Retrieved 2008-09-23. 4. Parker, John (2005). R. L. Moore: Mathematician and Teacher (https://archive.org/details/rlmoor emathemati0000park). Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 0-88385-550-X. OCLC 57533062 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57533062). 5. Bing, RH; Raymond L. Wilder; Walter Scott; Paul Olum; Lorene Rogers; William T. Eaton (1976-01-24). "Presentation Breakfast of The University of Texas at Austin Mathematics Award Honoring the Memory of Professor Robert Lee Moore and Professor Hubert Stanley Wall" (htt p://www.discovery.utexas.edu/rlm/reference/bing_award.html). University of Texas. Retrieved 2008-09-23. 6. Hubert Stanley Wall – MGP (http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=7952) 7. Thron, W. J. (1949). "Review: H. S. Wall, Analytic theory of continued fractions" (http://projecteu clid.org/euclid.bams/1183514224). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (11): 1083–1085. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1949-09319-9 (https://doi.org/10.1090%2Fs0002-9904-1949-09319- 9). External links Hubert Stanley Wall (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=7952) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hubert_Stanley_Wall&oldid=1026630713" This page was last edited on 3 June 2021, at 11:17 (UTC).