Created By: Historic Boulder, Inc.
2221 4th Street/ Hobart Wagener architect/ Usonian style/ built 1955/ Mapleton Historic District
Addition: Late Modern style/ built 1977
The original version of this house was a simple design with a garage near the street and the living spaces in a wing that stepped down the hillside to the west. An addition reimagined the house in a Late Modernist style with a flat roof, ribbons of horizontal windows, a flying beam, and a brilliant white paint finish.
Around the time the modern addition was completed, the neighborhood reacted by creating a protected historic district, making it more difficult for such a contemporary design to be built again in this area.
About Boulder’s preservation program: The U.S. Secretary of the Interior's guidelines for best preservation practices recommends additions to historic structures or infills in historic districts to reflect design of the current time while simultaneously being compatible with the historic building(s). Boulder's guidelines follow suit.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Boulder, CO - Central
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