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Historic Homes
Historic Home Detail | 74
Address
709 N 3rd Avenue
Upland, CA 91786
Evaluation
Building
5/1/2007
Construction Date
1899
Current Owner
James S. Lee,
Current Owner Address
793 w 2nd ave
Upland, CA 91786
Description
Although this one-and-one-half story house has been altered, its turn-of-the-century vocabulary is still apparent. The house is covered by a side gabled roof accented by a central hipped dormer with a gablet. Extended boxed eaves are used throughout the roof treatment. The shed roof over the porch, which spans three quarters of the facade, is supported by turned wood posts and enclosed by a decorative stick railing. Fenestration is narrowly proportioned, with an offset door and two one-over-one doublehung sash windows opening onto the porch. A pair of similar openings on the south elevation is topped by a single window rising into the open gable end. The windows in the dormer, which may have been a balcony, have been reglazed. The other alterations noted are asphalt shingle siding and a one-story addition on the south. The house is in good condition. RESEARCH NOTES: The documentary evidence is circumstantial. The estimated date for this house is based on architectural style, as the Swans, listed in the old lot books as either M.G. or Jennie, owned most of block 5 of the Magnolia townsite. There was no improvement on this parcel according to the 1899 assessment. The house was on its present site by the time the 1912 Sanborn was drawn. On the 1907 Sanborn the same house, with very minor deviations in footprint, appears facing G Street. If this is so, the house was moved on the property several feet and 90 degrees between 1907 and 1912. A 1900 directory showed M.G. Swan, carpenter, and wife at Third Avenue and Eleventh Street. In 1898 they had been listed as North Ontario residents and ranchers. In 1907 Swan was a mechanic living on the north side of G between Second and Third - which could have been one of four houses shown on the 1912 Sanborn.