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Historic Assessment Report <br />City of Colton, Community Develoment Department <br />Property Address: Mount Vernon North of E Street <br />Assessor Parcel Number: 0162-063-01 <br />Current Owner: City of Colton <br />650 North LaCadena Drive <br />Colton, CA 92324 <br />Date of Construction: May 1920 <br />Architectural Style and Physical Description: <br />Site consists of a large fourteen acre park with mature trees, a modern recreational building, swimming <br />pool, baseball field, tennis courts and boxing club. <br />Site Significance:. <br />This site is significant under the Recreation Theme. It is an excettent exampte of early municipal park <br />development. The park site was acquired in 1919 by .the City from Ethel Ladd, with financing strictly by <br />donation. A large 60 by 160 foot pool was built, with materials donated by the California Portland Gement <br />Company. Water was supplied from a hot water well known as the Emery Well. This well provided 82 degree <br />water for the pool. The plunge was built by R.N Robinson for $2,100.00, while the reinforced concrete and <br />wood bathrooms and lockers were built by Palmer and Elgin for $5,465.00. The Colton Municipal Park and <br />Plunge officially opened May 19,'1920. Additional facilities have been constructed or reconstructed since <br />its opening, but the overall arrangement has remained the same. <br />National Register Criteria: <br />This site meets both the integrity test and criteria C of the National Register which states that it must <br />"...embody the distinctive charateristics of a type, period, or method of construction or that represents <br />the work of a master, or that posess high artistci values, or that represent a significant and <br />distiguishabte entity whose components may tack individual distinction." <br />