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Leveille, Brian
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Subject:FW: Sorry, here's an addendum on my letter re the 1202 Mill delisting application for
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Good afternoon,
Here’s agenda correspondence for the CHC meeting on Monday. Thanks
Brian
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Subject: Sorry, here's an addendum on my letter re the 1202 Mill delisting application for the CHC
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James
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Sauer-Adams Adobe - 964 Chorro Street - San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
20 July 2023
City of San Luis Obispo Cultural Heritage Committee
Dear Members of the Committee:
I’d like to add data and two corrections on the J. R. and Louisa Torres Robasciotti House.
Documentation of date “Mr. Robert Robasciotti has commenced the erection of a
new dwelling house on the corner of Mill and Toro Streets” (below: San Luis Obispo Tribune
1893: 8 January, p. 2; 20 April 1893, p. 3; 22 March, p. 2; and 20 April, p. 3. Julius Robert
Robasciotti was variously known as Jules, Robert, and Bob).
Dates of Mill Street Historic District Buildings The vast majority of well over 100
historic buildings on nearly 90 Contributing and Master List properties in the district date
from the first half of the 20th century, in Colonial Revival; Prairie School; Prairie Box;
Craftsman; Swiss Heimatstil; Mission, Pueblo, Spanish, Greek, Tudor, Normandy, Provence,
and other Revivals; Art Deco; Streamline Moderne; etc.
Only 7 buildings are documented to the 19th century, two recently Master Listed.
House Address Date Evidence Style Designation
Booth 1208 Palm by 1886 photo Italianate Contributing
Righetti (Graves) 1314 Palm 1889 Tribune Colonial Revival Master
Latimer 858 Toro by 1891 Sanborn Italianate Master (2020)
Leland 855 Toro by 1891 Sanborn Italianate Contributing
Robasciotti 1202 Mill 1893 Tribune Queen Anne Contributing
Shipsey 1266 Mill 1894 Tribune Eastlake Master
Torres True 1214 Mill 1899 Tribune Queen Anne Master (2016)
Corrections I previously stated that the Robasciotti was the fourth oldest building in
the district; it is the fifth; also that the land of the Robasciotti and Torres True Houses was
purchased simultaneously; Teresa True purchased the lot next to her sister and brother-in-
law’s house and built in 1899. The two houses are the only Queen Annes in the district.
Additional sources J. R. Robasciotti’s development, with E. D. Bray as architect, of
innovative buildings in the Mill Street Historic District is discussed in Jean Martin’s “E. D.
Bray: Architect and Builder of the Central Coast,” La Vista, 2015, pp. 90–91) and my
forthcoming San Luis Obispo County Architecture (Mount Pleasant: Arcadia, 2023, p. 92).
Yours sincerely,
James Papp, PhD
Architectural Historian