national register nomination for boulevard park historic

the squares included in the Sutter grant to the inhabitants of the city of Sacramento for public use as the city
authorities should determine.
It seems that long ago Fannie K. Cross gave a quitclaim deed to the square to Frank Malone and
the Union Park Association. Beyond that no trace of claim of title in anyne is found. The Park Realty
Company is having the matter looked into, and has not divided the squares, and will not until its right to do
so is clearly established.
Many citizens hold that the title resides in the city, and that the long adverse possession has not
divested it of title, while others hold that it has parted with title in permitting its use for park purposes by
the State Agricultural Society and its predecessors.”
The square was never subdivided, and was in fact returned to the City of Sacramento’s ownership. This loss
of developable land may have resulted in another change to the original Boulevard Park plan: a fourth
“alley park” planned for the center of F, G, 20th and 21st Street was never built.
Codes, Covenants & Restrictions (CC&Rs) in Boulevard Park
Purchasers on the southern edge of Boulevard Park were required to sign a deed that included permanent
restrictions on the property. Buyers of the small lots on the northern end did not include all CC&R
requirements, but followed similar rules regarding building setbacks and front fences. Not all of these rules
were strictly obeyed throughout the district’s period of significance, but they limited incompatible
development sufficiently to create a visually and aesthetically coherent neighborhood. The covenants in
place in Boulevard Park did not include racial covenants.
A copy of the CC&R document is included in the deed for 2115 G Street:
1. (unreadable) to be used exclusively for residence purposes;
2. only one house shall be erected on (unreadable) which house shall be two-story erected of new
material, and shall cost not less than twenty-five Hundred ($2,500.00) Dollars; no old building shall be
removed to or placed upon said lot.
3. No flats or double houses shall be erected on said lit;
4. The front of the house (exclusive of the porch and steps) shall not be closer than Twenty-five (25)
feet to the sidewalk line of the sidewalk running along the front of said property, and the porch and steps
not closer than eleven (11) feet to sail sidewalk line; and the house must not be built nearer than Three (3)
feet to the adjoining lots on either side.
5. No front fences shall be erected and no fence on said lot shall be constructed nearer to said
sidewalk than will be the house which shall be erected thereon.
6. No barns shall be constructed on said lot without the written consent of all other owners of lots in
the block in which said lot is situated.
The Developers
Clinton L. White, President, Park Realty
Clinton L. White was born in Springville, Iowa in 1850, and moved to California in 1874 after graduating
from Cornell College. He moved to Sacramento after eight months in Placer County, and worked for
Sacramento attorney George Cadwalader before receiving his own law license in 1877. From 1881-1882 he
was a Deputy Attorney General of the State of California. In 1892 he became a member of the Board of
Freeholders who crafted a new charter for the city of Sacramento, adopted in 1893. He served as Mayor of
Sacramento from 1908 to 1909, was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, and in
1916 he was a delegate to the Progressive National Convention. In addition to his legal practice and
political career, White was a board member of the People’s Bank and had agricultural real estate holdings
in the northern Sacramento Valley. White died in 1925.
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