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Historic Homes
Historic Home Detail | 504
Address
59 E 9th Street
Upland, CA 91786
Evaluation
Building
5/10/2007
Construction Date
1897
Current Owner
Robert D. Saunders
Current Owner Address
8441 Wilson ct
Upland, CA 91786
Description
This two-story residence illustrates the transition from the late Queen Anne into the Craftsman style. Beneath an L-shaped gable roof; the house is sheathed in clapboard. Gable ends are faced with patterned shingles and outlined by bargeboards with flared ends. Boxed cornices, endboards, and a sill course trim the siding. A pent-roofed porch fills out the L-shaped plan. Cobblestone walls and tapered posts define the porch. It is entered via three steps located at the southeast corner. Entrances face both south and east. Beneath the front gable at the west end of the facade a two-story bay is squared on the upper story and slant-sided on the lower. Windows are centered on both levels. These openings as well as others have been reglazed, replacing their original double-hung sash windows with single panes. Otherwise the house appears intact., unless the porch was a Craftsman era substitution for an earlier one. It is in good condition. RESEARCH NOTES : The assessments indicate that this house was built in 1897 by Almon C. Sikes. The 1900 directory lists A.C. Sikes, liveryman, and wife, at First Avenue and Ninth Street. W.H. Craig was the next owner (1906); he did not live in the house. He was followed by Charles Allen (1910), M.H. Bordwell (1911-18) and Paul Bachert. According to the Historic Houses and Sites file in the Upland library the house was used as a hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic. Long time residents remember a Mrs. Van Horn operating it as a rooming house in the 1920s.