Build Year: 1953
Building Type: Residence
DAHP ID: 126285
Parcel #: 61500200100

tatement Of Significance The City of Lacey was originally named Woodland for Isaac and Catherine Wood. The Woods filed Donation Land Claim #39 in the area in 1853, near the intersection of present-day Carpenter Road and Pacific Avenue SE. The area underwent a period of growth and development in the 1890s, and by 1892 the name of Woodland was changed to Lacey due to a petition filed by O.C. de Lacey, a land developer and attorney, to change the name because another town was named Woodland in Cowlitz County (Deck 1993; HistoryLink 2011; Palmer and Stevenson 1992; Stevenson 1985). In 1892, Lacey had a population of 500 and trains went through the town four times a day. The majority of the town’s residents engaged in agricultural pursuits, including raising poultry and dairy, fruit, and hops farming (Stevenson 1985; Wahl 1940). During the first six decades of the 20th century, Lacey continued to grow, with the majority of the area’s population growth occurring after 1940. The period 1910-1930 saw the creation of fewer than a dozen plats within the boundaries of present-day Lacey. However, over 40 plats were created in the 1940s and 1950s (City of Lacey 2011; Thurston County 2011). As the State government expanded and created new jobs, the demand for housing increased in the Lacey area. In addition, Saint Martin’s University grew from a boarding school to a degree-granting college by 1938 (Saint Martin’s University 2011). The City of Lacey was incorporated in 1966 (Palmer and Stevenson 1992). This residence is located in the Mattson Addition plat, created by M.J. Eitreim on June 18, 1951. The plat consisted of 3 blocks with 28 lots east of Golf Club Road along Crowe Street and 13th Avenue SE (formerly Stewart Avenue) (Mattson Plat Map 1951). A modest sized ranch, the residence reflects the rectangular plan with low-pitched roof, and brick façade typical of the style. The property maintains integrity of location, residential setting and feeling, and association with contemporaneous residential structures. Although the storm door is a replacement the residence features design, workmanship, and materials consistent with traditional ranch style houses and is therefore recommended as eligible for listing in the National Register under Criterion C at the local level. The preliminary historic property reconnaissance focused on only those buildings with a minimum of changes to their front elevations and so did not yield enough properties to constitute a historic district. However, it is not uncommon for post World War II houses dating from 1945 to 1959 to have historically undergone modifications to their original design thereby facilitating increased living space, such as by converting a garage to a bedroom. An expansion of the time frame under consideration for a local study and further investigations may be able to identify enough contributing elements within a particular plat to constitute a historic district within the current study area. Physical Description This one-story residence with rectangular floor plan was constructed in 1953 on Lot 2 in Block 1 of the Mattson plat within a residential section of the City of Lacey. The residence consists of a hipped roof house proper and an attached garage with an original rollup door with eight panels. The roof of the residence is clad in composition shingles and exhibits gablets and projecting eaves. A triple-stack, stretcher-bond brick chimney projects from the roof. The residence is clad in stretcher-bond brick. The front elevation of the residence exhibits a single-leaf door with replacement storm door beneath a covered entryway formed by the projecting eaves. The door opens onto a poured concrete and brick stoop accessed by one step. The front elevation exhibits three original, windows with wood surrounds and header brick lugsills including: a three-sash window comprised of a central fixed pane flanked by one-over-one sashes and two horizontal-sliding sashes. The residence and attached garage rest upon a poured concrete foundation.