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Historic Homes
Historic Home Detail | 233
Address
535 N 8th Avenue
Upland, CA 91786
Evaluation
Building
5/4/2007
Construction Date
1888
Current Owner
Michael S. Fowler
Current Owner Address
P.O.box 1645
Upland, CA 91786
Description
A fairly high-pitched front gable roof sets the tone for this
one-and-one-half story residence. Influenced by the early
Craftsman style, the building sits on a raised stone and cement
foundation and is sheathed in clapboards. The gable has boxed
eaves and decorative cornice returns at the ends of the raking
cornice. Below an extension of the gable with latticework in its
peak, a balcony has been enclosed. The porch is centered below
the balcony, framed by columns with decorative brackets. Up a
flight of five steps, the entry centered on the facade. It is :
flanked by single openings on each side that appear to have been
re-glazed. Other alterations include an aluminum porch awning
and iron porch railings. The house is in good condition.
There is a charming story about this one-and-one-half story
residence that is difficult to prove. According to its owner in
1973, the house is the original half of a schoolhouse which was
built in 1886, abandoned in 1909, sawn in half, sold and moved in
1919. However, the assessment record indicates that an
improvement on this lot was in place by 1915. This is confirmed
by the 1912 Sanborn, which shows the footprint of a one-and-onqhalf
story house that matches the present one. Other sources report that Upland's first school, the Eighteenth Street School,,
was moved to Campus Avenue near Thirteenth in 1919 to become the Sierra Vista School. Historic photographs of this schoolhouse do
bear a certain resemblance to the house on Eighth Avenue.
Another account of the house's educational origins identifies it
as the school originally on Seventh Street and moved to the
southeast corner of Euclid and Ninth Street in 1890. This, too,
is unproven.
However, the Sanborns confirm that the school at that location
had been replaced by a lumber yard in 1912.