Documenting Sandpoint's Heritage Landmarks and historic districts are one way in which to recognize important historic resources worthy of preservation and stewardship. Historic resource surveys are other ways in which to document and understand what buildings, sites and landscapes are important to the Sandpoint community. Over the last decade, the Sandpoint Historic Preservation Commission conducted several survey projects in the community’s historic inner neighborhoods surrounding the downtown district.
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Originating in California and made popular through architectural pattern books during the early decades of the 20th century, the Craftsman home, whether as a two-story home or one-story bungalow, feature full-width or partial width porches, projecting gables, overhanging eaves, exposed roof rafter tails, and double-hung windows with divided light upper sashes. It is one of the more predominate historic housing types in Sandpoint.
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In 2010, the Sandpoint Historic Preservation Commission conducted a reconnaissance-level survey — a snapshot of potentially significant historic resources in a particular location at a specific point in time — of the historic residential resources in an area roughly bounded by Larch Street on the north, Alder Street on the south, and Boyer and Short Avenues Avenue on the west and east respectively. Representative architecture includes worker cottages, Craftsmen homes and bungalows, and Folk Victorians. Although the survey did not identify any future historic districts, it did suggest several individual homes as eligible for the National Register. The survey documented 75 individual properties.
