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| Wayzata's Section Foreman House |
The council approved the consulting services agreement by a vote of 4-0. Council member Jeff Buchanan was absent.
You can review the agreement beginning on page 111 of the city council agenda.
You can review the agreement beginning on page 111 of the city council agenda.
Wayzata City Council Meeting July 7, 2020
The Section Foreman House is an historic structure that once housed railroad employees and their families beginning in the early 1900s.
The Wayzata house is believed to be the last building of its
kind remaining on its original site.
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| Wayzata Section Foreman House Courtesy Deanne Straka |
The City states that while the agreement is paid by the City
of Wayzata, the Wayzata Conservancy has agreed to reimburse for the consulting
services in full.
The agreement will allow New History to create and submit a
National Register of Historic Places Nomination for the Section Foreman House.
The house will have more recognition and additional opportunities
for grant funding for future renovations if the National Register nomination is
approved.
In addition to the nomination, New History may help the
Wayzata Conservancy with donor cultivation.
“The Conservancy at the City of Wayzata's direction is
excited to leverage the experience of the team at New History to fully explore
and hopefully achieve a listing on the National Register of Historic Places
(NRHP) in addition to exploring public and private funding sources to help
preserve this important piece of Wayzata's history,” said Conservancy Board Chair
Andrew Mullin.
The submission of the National Register of Historic Places
Nomination is expected to cost between $8,000 and $12,000 according to New
History’s proposal. Donor cultivation for the Wayzata Conservancy would be
approximately $2,500 to $5,000.
New History was hired by the City of Wayzata in 2019 for an
exterior stabilization phase of the Section Foreman House. This included a
conditions assessment update, construction documents for stabilization, a
design framework for reuse and a plan for reuse.
The restoration and reuse of the Section Foreman House is a
part of the Panoway (formerly Lake Effect) Phase 2.
Phase 1, which includes
current construction on Lake Street, is already underway.
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| Courtesy City of Wayzata |
The City of Wayzata is seeking $10 million in bonding from
the State of Minnesota to fund the second phase of Panoway. That phase will include:
Restoring the Section Foreman House to create a community room and interactive
learning center for history and the environment, creating a new Eco Park and
shoreland restoration, lakeside boardwalk and community docks, Wayzata Depot
park area enhancement.
The restoration of the Section Foreman House and creation of
the Eco Park will cost approximately $2 million.
Wayzata Section Foreman House History
The Section Foreman House was built in 1902.
Section foreman houses were popping up all along the
expanding Great Northern Railroad to support the section foreman and their
families. You could expect to see one every 20 miles or so. The section foreman
oversaw keeping the rail in good repair.
These were simple homes. The Wayzata house is no exception.
The home was originally 32 feet by 16 feet. It had two rooms each on the first
and second levels. It cost $750 to build.
Through the years, the Section Foreman House underwent several
changes, but the integrity of the original home was never diminished. In 1926,
electrical lights were installed. A 100-foot pipeline was installed between the
home and the city water main in 1938.
In 1943, the home was lifted to install a concrete foundation
and basement. It was at this time that the home expanded; a first-level bedroom
and living room increased the structure to 32 feet by 30 feet. A year later,
toilet facilities and sewer lines were installed.
Dr. Charles N. Brooks bought the house from the railroad in the early 1960s. The following year, Brooks built a new entrance on the south end complete
with a front porch and an expanded living room. The City of Wayzata acquired
the home several decades later and has owned the house and the property since.
In February of 2011, the city council appointed a Lakefront Task Force to research and provide a recommendation for the future of the City’s lakefront.
The city council adopted the Report of the Wayzata Lakefront Taskforce in January of 2012.
In March of 2014, the city council adopted the Wayzata Lakefront Final Framework Report.
Wayzata selected Civitas as the design team for the Lake Effect Signature Park schematic design in September of 2015.
On December 15, 2016, the city council approved an agreement with the Lake Effect Conservancy as a part of Resolution 29-2016 which defined the scope of the Lake Effect Project and its next steps.
That agreement states that the Conservancy will actively raise Private and Philanthropic Funding.
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