South of Campus Neighborhood in Chico Contributing Buildings Sequenced By Year

Name Year Address Remarks 429 West 3rd Street Craftsman Bungalow. 414 West 6th Street 527 West 6th Street Salt-box cottage built between 1890 and 1921. 531 Hazel Street 325-327 Ivy Street Rectangular gabled house has Craftsman details. Moved here in 1952, when the University demolished the residences along West 1st Street. 317 Cherry Street Clapboard bungalow. A wide corbeled frieze under the boxed eaves is its most distinctive feature. O'Hair House 618 West 5th Street One of Chico's few Gothic Revival cottages exhibiting decorated bargeboards. Allen-Sommer-Gage House 1862 410 Normal Avenue Greek Revival style. One of Chico's oldest documented houses. National Register #77000288. Ball House 1869 536 West 3rd Street May be one of Chico's oldest extant structures. It appears to have been built for Charles Ball, pioneer watchmaker and mayor, around 1869, on the northeast corner of West 2nd and Chestnut Streets. It was moved here in the 1920's. 1870 530 Normal Avenue Pioneer cottage probably built in the 1870's. Crosette House 1871 305 Ivy Street Clapboard, multigabled cottage with many additions and renovations. Cosby Home 1872 327 Chestnut Street George B. Cosby, Civil War veteran and later State Adjutant General, had this home built in 1872. Originally it was an ell-shaped house facing West 4th Street with a veranda and Eastlake trim. Around 1900, it was moved to this site and by the late 1920's, Fifth Street Rooming House 1873 731 West 5th Street Italianate box typical of the early 1870s. Probably built as a rooming house for people associated with the railroad since it was built a few years after the railroad arrived and is about two blocks from the depot. Wood House 1873 644 West 4rd Street Italianate style house built for Rev. Jesse Wood about 1873. Typical of residences of the period in its symmetry, simplicity of detail and workmanship. Walker House 1875 702 West 3rd Street Italianate style. Jefferson Walker, whose brickyard supplied the brick for most of the commercial buildings and schools in town until 1902, built this house for himself in 1875. It is one of the few remaining brick residences in Chico. Fordham House 1878 342 Ivy Street Similar to the two Italianate cottages next to it. Built in 1878 for J.F. Fordham, a brickmaker. Reynolds House 1878 206 Hazel Street Greek Revival cottage. The fruit and nut packing family, the Reynolds, lived here from 1919 - 1959. 1880 428 West 5th Street Good extant example of a comfortable, middle-class home of the early 1880s. 1880 324 West 6th Street Excellent example of a single-story Italianate with front veranda. Moved to this site about 1915 from the Junction area. Built c1880. 1880 345 West 6th Street Proportions and symmetry typical of an early 1880s residence. 1880 604 Ivy Street Small clapboard, gabled cottage dates from at least the early 1880's. Waterland Apartments 1880 327 Normal Avenue One of Chico's first apartment buildings. Built about 1880 and remodeled by G.F. Waterland in 1914, which probably explains its eclectic appearance. Jackson House 1881 330 Ivy Street Local jeweler, Frank M. Jackson had this house built in 1881. Ormsby House 1881 318 Ivy Street Italianate cottage. 1883 228 Ivy Street Italianate cottage. Sherwood House 1883 310 Normal Avenue Eastlake stickwork used freely on the shiplap-sided building with elaborate knobbed brackets under the eaves. Built for wagon-maker, William H. Sherwood. Stansbury House 1883 307 West 5th Street National Register #75000424 1884 322 Normal Avenue 1884 417-421 Normal Avenue This pre-1884 clapboard cottage has been added to several times to create its asymmetric shape. Barnard House 1884 238 Normal Avenue Original building was Italianate with square bay windows on the facade and south side. In the early 1910's, the front bay was removed and a Greek Revival portico was added with two sets of triple double-story Ionic columns supporting a pediment with a bul O'Hair House 1884 628 West 3rd Street Rural interpretation of the Greek Revival style. 1885 626-628 West 4rd Street Moved to this site in the 1950s from 3rd and Salem Streets. Eames House 1885 630 West 5th Street Eames had this house built in 1895 next to his Chico Soda Works. Originally a classic box with a Queen Anne octagonal tower, it was remodeled around 1910 by architect Julia Morgan. 1886 330 West 5th Street 1886 543 West 6th Street Schooler House 1887 527 Ivy Street Italianate cottage. 1890 746 West 3rd Street Multigabled Queen Anne built between 1890 and 1902. 1890 621 West 6th Street 1890 706 West 6th Street Built between 1890 - 1902. 1890 718 West 6th Street Built between 1890 - 1902. Bicknell House 1898 611 West 5th Street Queen Anne style. One of the largest houses in the district. 1900 411 West 6th Street This cottage is similar to many from the 1900s. 1900 419 West 6th Street 1900 420 West 6th Street 1900 431 West 6th Street Classic example of a simple stucco California Bungalow. 1900 518 West 6th Street 1900 429 Normal Avenue Classical Revival box built in the first decade of the 20th century. Bicknell Cottage 1900 530 Hazel Street One of a set of three identical Queen Anne cottages built at the beginning of the 20th century for Thomas Bicknell at the back of his large Queen Anne house at 611 West 5th Street. Bicknell Cottage 1900 536 Hazel Street See 530 Hazel Street. Bicknell Cottage 1900 544 Hazel Street See 530 Hazel Street. Bower House 1900 308 Hazel Street Stick style. Earl House 1900 238 Hazel Street Stick-Eastlake style. built for the proprietors of a local hardware store, William and Nancy Earll, with all millwork done in Chico. 1901 530 Chestnut Street 1902 625 West 3rd Street 1902 319 West 4rd Street Classical Revival box with Queen Anne style shingled, multiple gables. A square side bay with beautiful carved brackets is the only vestige of the original one story Eastlake cottage which was greatly enlarged between 1902-1921 and remodeled in the late 1 1902 441 West 4rd Street 1902 611 West 4rd Street 1902 530 West 6th Street The first floor was a Colonial Revival cottage. Second story apparently added to accomodate a duplex. 1902 544 West 6th Street 1902 420 Hazel Street Built between 1902 and 1921. 1902 224 Ivy Street Colonial Revival cottage built between 1902 and 1914. White House 1902 642 West 3rd Street Dutch mode of the Colonial Revival style. 1903 430 West 3rd Street Built sometime between 1903 and 1921. 1903 527-531 West 5th Street Bryan 1903 730 West 6th Street Colonial Revival. Canfield House 1903 429 West 4rd Street Cole Residence 1903 334 Normal Avenue Local architect, Chester Cole resided here from 1918 to about 1933. Copeland House 1903 342 Normal Avenue Costar House 1903 505 West 5th Street Crew House 1903 504 West 3rd Street Colonial Revival style. Eames Cottage 1903 629 West 4rd Street One of 3 identical rectangular cottages built in 1903 by Charles Eames behind his Soda Works. The porch has turned posts and small Eastlake-like brackets. Eames Cottage 1903 637 West 4rd Street Idential to 629 West 4rd Street. Eames Cottage 1903 645 West 4rd Street Idential to 629 West 4rd Street. Rouke-Haile House 1903 512 West 3rd Street Shingle style with Queen Anne asymmetry and Colonial Revival details. Schwein House 1903 527 Cherry Street One of four gambrel-roofed residences designed by AJ. Bryan in 1903, one of which is around the corner at 730 West 6th Street. 1906 541 West 5th Street Colonial Revival cottage. Matthews House 1906 606 West 5th Street Colonial Revival. Richardson (C.C.) House 1907 520 West 3rd Street Colonial Revival style. Richardson (J.V.) House 1907 528 West 3rd Street McIntosh House 1908 440 West 4rd Street This square, 2-story house was once Chico's grandest example of the Colonial Revival style. Its current use as a fraternity house has led to its misuse and deterioration. 1910 729 West 2nd Street 1910 737 West 2nd Street 1910 421 West 3rd Street 1910 529 Normal Avenue Colonial Revival cottage form with Craftsman details. Probably built in the 1910's. 1910 514 Ivy Street 1913 318 Hazel Street 1914 529 Ivy Street Zwidler House 1914 544 West 3rd Street 1915 745 West 3rd Street Shepherd House 1915 647 West 2nd Street One of Chico's best-maintained examples of a Craftsman Bungalow. Abraham House 1918 413 West 4rd Street Chico's only Secessionist details in the patterning in the eave soffits and surface applied design. The original living room chandelier was a Secessionist design of helmeted heads. 1920 627 West 2nd Street Clapboard bungalow with craftsman details. 1920 635 West 2nd Street 1920 728 West 3rd Street 1920 720 West 4rd Street 1920 345 West 5th Street Built in the 1920s as a grocery store replacing an earlier dwelling. 1920 511-513 West 5th Street Period Revival style popular in the 1920s. 1920 519-521 West 5th Street 1920 719 West 6th Street 1920 411-415 Chestnut Street Craftsman Airplane Bungalow built in early 1920s. 1920 346 Hazel Street Mediterranean Revival bungalow. 1920 225 Ivy Street Bungalow withCraftsman treatment In the gables. Built early 1920s. Dean House 1920 442 West 3rd Street Chico's best example of Prairie style. Kennedy House 1920 413 West 5th Street Classic box with a Craftsman veranda, now enclosed, exposed rafters, clinker brick fireplace, and "carved" brackets supporting the entry gable. 1921 330 West 4rd Street Built sometime before 1921. 1921 414 West 4rd Street Built sometime before 1921. 1921 420 West 4rd Street Built between 1902 - 1921 1921 428 West 4rd Street Colonial Revival cottage. Built between 1902 - 1921 1921 629 West 6th Street 1921 727-731 West 6th Street Built before 1921. Hall - Van Hook Funeral Chapel 1927 341 West 3rd Street Stucco, conservative Mediterranean Villa. One of Chico's oldest businesses, evolving out of the furniture and mortuary business established by Thomas Bicknell in 1889. Notre Dame School 1928 435 Hazel Street Built in 1928 and classroom/convent wing in 1979. Nottelman House 1929 541 Normal Avenue Chico's only example of the Monterey Revival style. 1930 235 Ivy Street English cottage.

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