Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2007.046.0071Scope and Content
Color Photograph:
472 - 480 East H Street Benicia CA
Parcel No: 89-064-15
Two Gable Roof Cottages with Italianate Details
Constructed in 1880's
Remodeled by Dr. Fry prior to 1919
Historic Name: Barzilla Cox Garden Cottages
These nearly identical gable roof, rectangular one-story, wood frame houses have elaborate shelf with brackets over the door and window with Italianate details on the off-center gable end. Recessed main door is wood, four panel with a rectangular glass transom. Exterior wall material is horozontal shiplap. The broadly pitched gable roof may have been the remodel of 1919 by Dr. Philip B. Fry. [Dr. Fry is credited with saving the major portion of the population of Benicia during the 1918 influenza epidemic.]
Even with the peculiar gable roof which somehow mixes charmingly with the formal elaborate Italianate details, these cottages offer architectural significance and reflect the changing taste between the Victorian Era and the beginning of a new century in Benicia.
East H Street was the main road to Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (1850-69), Baker Hamilton Iron Works/Benicia Agricultural Works (1880-1914) and Yuba Manufacturing Co. (1914-1973).
Consequently early on, East H Street had residential development and although some have been greatly remodeled [even by 1986] there is a large concentration of old homes in the 400 block.
.Collection
Benicia Architectural Study - 1989
