CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
SEVENTEENTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. O-06-4 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton, by request
ORDINANCE
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Designating the Werner-Gilchrist House Located at 202 Cornell Drive SE a City of Albuquerque Landmark (Benton, by request)
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DESIGNATING THE WERNER-GILCHRIST HOUSE A CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE LANDMARK.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
Section 1. Intent.
(A). The Werner-Gilchrist House located at 202 Cornell Drive SE, Lots 1 and 2, Block 10, University Heights Addition, has been recommended for designation as a City Landmark by the Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission; and
(B). The Werner-Gilchrist House meets criteria for City Landmark designation, as specified in Section 14-12-7(A) of the Ordinance establishing the Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission and providing for designation of City Landmarks (R.O.A. 1994) as follows:
(1) Has historic significance rooted in its architecture and its associations with the eastward expansion and suburban development of the City of Albuquerque;
(2) Portrays the environment of a group of people (New Mexico residents) in an era of history (post-railroad, pre-Statehood New Mexico) characterized by a distinctive architectural style (Hipped Box);
(3) Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type and method of construction, being a single-family house of adobe bearing walls - a pre-railroad vernacular building tradition - built in post-railroad, Hipped Box styling with lumber-framed, hipped roof and milled wood doors, windows, and trim inside and out; and
(4) Was listed in the State Register of Cultural Properties and National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(C) Significant features of the Werner-Gilchrist House identified by the Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission as being worthy of preservation:
(1) Main mass of the house including its earthen walls, hipped roof, and dormers;
(2) Milled wood doors, windows, and trim characteristic of early 20th-century Albuquerque houses; and
(3) The open yards north and west of the house.
(D) In addition to the preservation of distinctive features set forth in subsection (C), the following guidelines should be adopted:
(1) New construction may be approved on the premises if it is compatible in scale, style, and material with the historic building.
(2) The federal Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation shall be incorporated by reference into specific development guidelines to be adopted by the Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission for the Werner-Gilchrist House.
Section 2. That the Werner-Gilchrist House be designated a City Landmark.
Section 3. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance. The Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, paragraph, sentence, clause, word or phrase thereof irrespective of any provisions being declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid.
Section 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall take effect five days after publication by title and general summary.
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