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1620 21st Street

P1. Other Identifier:
Charles and Sarah Joy Residence
*P2. Location: *a. County:
Sacramento
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b. Address: 1620 21 Street City: Sacramento
Zip: 95811
*c. USGS 7.5' Quad Sacramento West
Date: 1992
*e.
Other Locational Data: APN#: 007-0315-014
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Resource Name or #:

DRAFT

*P3a. Description:

The property contains a two and a half story wood frame house on the west side of 21st Street. The roof is hipped
and the building is surfaced with tiered rustic drop siding. An angled one story bay with windows and bracketed roof
projects from the south elevation. An open porch extends across the middle two thirds of the faade, enframing a
tripartite window and entry. The porch roof is supported by four Doric columns with wood plinths on clinker brick
posts, and a small gabled form on the roof with applied wood accents is centered above the entry. Wood balustrades
with balusters enclose the lower portion of the porch. A gabled dormer with two louvered openings and a small
window projects from the middle of the hip roof. The tripartite window under the porch canopy contains a larger
fixed section flanked by two narrower double hung windows. The second floor windows are double hung, one light
over one, enframed with vinyl or metal, and do not appear to be original. The porch and front stair base is clinker
brick with concrete stairs and surface application on the curved sides.
A sun porch with multiple windows has been added to a one story rear (west) addition. The porch is covered with
wood siding and the addition of the same material as the house.
*P3b. Resource Attributes:
*P4. Resources Present:

Building

Structure Object Site District

Element of District Other (Isolates, etc.)

P5b. Description of Photo:

View to the northwest

*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Source:
Prehistoric

Historic
Both

1913 City Directories

*P7.

Owner and Address:

Sacramento, CA
*P8. Recorded by:

Paula Boghosian, Historic

Environment Consultants
5420 Home Court
Carmichael, CA 95608
*P9. Date Recorded:

July 2016
*P10. Survey Type:

Intensive
P11. Report Citation*:

None
*Attachments: NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Linear Resource Record Archaeological Record District Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (List)

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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD

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*Resource Address:
1620 21st Street
B1. Historic Name: Joy Residence
B2. Common Name:
B3. Original Use:
Residential
*B5. Architectural Style:
*B6. Construction History: This house has

*NRHP Status Code

6L

B4. Present Use:

Residential

no major building permits on file. In 2005 there was building permit to

make repairs due to fire and smoke damage. The damage appeared to be limited in scope.
*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date:
Original Location:
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*B8. Related Features: The large house is one of three such adjacent buildings on this block of 21 Street that create

a strong combined early twentieth century image. The lack of additional similar buildings on either end or nearby
limits any potential historic district designation.
B9a. Architect:
Unknown
b. Builder: Unknown
*B10. Significance: Theme: residential
Area: midtown
Period of Significance: 1912, 1913
Property Type: residential
Applicable Criteria:

Charles H. and Sarah Joy were the first listed occupants of the house in 1913. Joy was a long-time employee of
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. He retired around the time this house was built. Joy then took a job with the
State and was the Assistant Gardener at the State Capitol and Capitol Park. He worked until the time of his death
8/12/1923. Sarah, or Sallie, Joy continued to live in the house until her death 7/11/1944. In the mid-1940s to the mid1950s, Arthur and Gladys Winslow lived in the house. After the mid-1950s, the house has been occupied by multiple
residents.
The property has not been associated with individuals notable for their contributions to the community, or to
significant events. While the building possesses some interesting design elements that relate to other Sacramento
buildings of its era, it is not a distinctive individual example of its design. The property does not appear to meet
criteria for individual listing on the Sacramento Register, California Register or the National Register. The building
does enhance the visual imagery of the two building on either side as a small grouping from the early twentieth
century.
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: n/a

*B12. References:

California Digital Newspaper Collection

Sacramento Bee: 8/12/1923, obituaries
Sacramento City Building Permits
Sacramento City Directories
Sacramento County Assessors Data
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Thomas Brothers Maps 1937-41
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator:

Paula Boghosian, Historic Environment Cons.

*Date of Evaluation: July 2016

(This space reserved for official comments.)

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Resource Name or #: 1620 21st Street
Recorded by : Paula Boghosian

West elevation, View to southeast