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Resident 1y ago. Close restaurants and public transportation. Few blocks from downtown Bonito lugar para vivir. Boulevard Park homes represented the beginnings of the truly modern home, being the first ones built with open floor plans, abundant natural light, indoor plumbing, electric light fixtures and central heating. They retain Victorian sensibilities with the attention to detail in decorative moulding and window treatment, high ceilings and the use of pocket doors to create private spaces.
Overall, the architecture is a local vernacular adaptation of styles popular throughout the entire country during the same period. The Boulevard Park neighborhood is located on the former site of the Union Park Race Course which was in operation for 42 years beginning in The track, owned by the State Agricultural Society, was the location of the first permanent State Fair.
Old photographs and maps of the structures show a large grandstand on the southwest corner with surrounding stables. Socially prominent Sacramentans, including Stanford, Crocker and Haggin, raced their personal trotting teams on the track; horse racing was the premier national sporting event of the period.
The Union Park Race Course was the site of Eadweard Muybridge's the early photography experiments, which were an important prelude to the development of motion pictures. In addition to horse racing, bicycle and auto races eventually were held. Many of the structures around the racetrack and along H Street were built to house those involved in horse racing.
While too costly for the very poor, they were affordable to clerks, railroad employees, craftsmen and small business owners. City Beautiful design principles encouraged home ownership for working people, in the hope that more pleasant cities would make them better citizens. While lots on the north end were not as tightly restricted as those on the south end, they still featured design elements including the street median boulevards, orientation of lots toward the boulevards, paved streets and sidewalks, and street tree plantings.
As built, the north end also featured close access to a streetcar line and a city park. One block, between 21st, 22nd, B and C, was originally platted for homes until Park Realty encountered a problem. Originally designated as a city park block by John Sutter Jr. Decades of court battles over the land title were ignored while the racetrack was on the lot, but legally the block belonged to the city of Sacramento.
Faced with a potential quagmire, Park Realty surrendered the block, now known as Grant Park, to the city of Sacramento for its use as a public park. While the Boulevard Park development generally followed the gridiron street pattern laid out for the city of Sacramento, these boulevards are unique. Sacramento streets were originally designed for a width of 80 feet from curb to curb.
Medians were typically landscaped with grass, with Canary Island date palms planted on each intersection. Smaller trees of various species, including Ginkgo biloba and Mexican fan palm, are located on some street medians, generally on the inner portions of the median nearest the alleys with varying species of low-lying shrubs and ground cover plants. Lots in Boulevard Park were oriented towards the landscaped boulevards, unlike the rest of the central city, where lots are oriented towards the lettered streets.
This deliberate design maximized the number of lots with aesthetically pleasing street frontages. Boulevards of this type were common features of City Beautiful neighborhoods, and intended to denote the most desirable and elegant neighborhoods of a city. Purchasers on the southern edge of Boulevard Park were required to sign a deed that included permanent restrictions on the property. Not all of these rules were strictly obeyed throughout the district's period of significance, but they limited incompatible development sufficiently to create a visually and aesthetically coherent neighborhood.
No flats or double houses shall be erected on said lot. The front of the house exclusive of the porch and steps shall not be closer than Twenty-five 25 feet to the sidewalk line of the sidewalk running along the front of said property, and the porch and steps not closer than eleven 11 feet to said sidewalk line; and the house must not be built nearer than Three 3 feet to the adjoining lots on either side.
No front fences shall be erected and no fence on said lot shall be constructed nearer to said sidewalk than will be the house which shall be erected thereon. No barns shall be constructed on said lot without the written consent of all other owners of lots in the block in which said lot is situated.
The Developers. White was born in Springville, Iowa in , and moved to California in after graduating from Cornell College. He moved to Sacramento after eight months in Placer County , and worked for Sacramento attorney George Cadwalader before receiving his own law license in In he became a member of the Board of Freeholders who crafted a new charter for the city of Sacramento, adopted in His social and political circle in Sacramento included figures like Hiram Johnson, one of the best-known figures of California's Progressive movement and Governor of California White served as Mayor of Sacramento from to , was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , and in he was a delegate to the Progressive National Convention.
In addition to his legal practice and political career, White was a board member of the People's Bank and had agricultural real estate holdings in the northern Sacramento Valley. White died in As a Republican of this era, active in local reform politics since the charter change, Clinton L. White was a Progressive as well as a businessman, and his real estate project in Boulevard Park reflected his social ideals and political affiliation as well as his business interests.
As the president of Park Realty, the corporate body that purchased the Boulevard Park property, Boulevard Park's organization and design carried the stamp of Progressive "City Beautiful" ideas. He built his primary residence in Boulevard Park, on one of its most prominent corners. Charles E. Wright founded his real estate company in and took on partner Howard Kimbrough in They functioned as owner-agent and subdivider for many real estate projects within the city of Sacramento and in the unincorporated county, and diversified their business into city real estate, farmland, rental and leasing, insurance, building and advertising.
In the firm began colonization of the Florin area, a project that pioneered ideas of low-cost housing in new developments in the Sacramento region.
This differed from earlier Sacramento developers' approaches, who generally sold only unimproved lots, leaving the purchaser to construct a building on the lot.
The architecture of Boulevard Park is eclectic, reflecting the fact that many property owners purchased vacant lots and built homes in styles they preferred, but several factors made Boulevard Park a visually consistent neighborhood. The deed covenants mandated particular setbacks, minimum sizes and cost requirements on homes in the featured southern end of the development area.
Features constructed prior to sale, including concrete sidewalks, paved streets, street trees and the boulevard median strips, gave the neighborhood an overall framework, and subsequent houses fit into the framework. Varying lot sizes, with the largest on the south end and smallest in the north, resulted in gradual differences in building sizes.
Houses constructed over the period of significance reflected the changing tastes in architecture and housing styles of Sacramento residents across class lines. The aforementioned City Beautiful features of Boulevard Park gave new residents an aesthetically pleasing background to build a house, and a minimum cost for those houses. As a result, larger houses on the neighborhood's southern end were often architect-designed rather than prefabricated kits or standard patterns.
As the homes of prominent city residents, doctors, bank presidents and politicians, they set the tone for later development in the district.
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