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HomeMy WebLinkAbout060926_Template-HillHouse_1909NBush.pdfState of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________ PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________ NRHP Status Code_____________________________________ Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________ Review Code________ Reviewer________________________ Date_______________ Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Hill House P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA0054 Date: *c. Address 1909 North Bush Street City Santa Ana Zip 92706 *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 003-141-19 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) This one-story Craftsman bungalow features a full-length recessed porch with plain wooden posts and carved, slightly arched bolsters. Sheathed in clapboard siding, the house is rectangular in plan. A low-pitched front-gabled roof, with rafters exposed in the overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards, caps the building. The gable end is also faced with clapboard siding and displays a centered attic opening composed of horizontal louver vents flanking a two-over-two fixed sash window. Façade fenestration consists of two pairs of nine-over-one, double-hung sash windows, one on either side of the entry, which is offset to the north. All of the windows are framed in wood with molded lintels and projecting sills. A low, diamond- patterned railing, possibly an alteration, runs the length of the porch, which is accessed via steps leading up from the driveway on the north. Newer, solid wood fences hide the side elevations from view. No garage is visible from the street. In addition to the fencing and porch railing, minor alterations include the additions of metal window screens on the façade windows and a metal screen door; otherwise, the house is substantially intact. *P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP2. Single-family Property *P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other P5b. Photo: (view and date) West elevation August 2006 *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: historic Circa 1913/City of Santa Ana Directory *P7. Owner and Address: Carlos Garcia 1909 N. Bush Street Santa Ana, CA 92706 *P8. Recorded by: L. Heumann and D. Howell-Ardila Sapphos Environmental, Inc. 133 Martin Alley Pasadena, California 91105 *P9. Date Recorded: September 25, 2006 *P10. Survey Type: Intensive Survey Update *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter “none”) None. *Attachments: None Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list) DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information P5a. Photo State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________ BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD Page 2 of 3 *CHR Status Code_5S1__________________________ *Resource Name or #: Hill House B1. Historic Name: Hill House B2. Common Name: Same B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence *B5. Architectural Style: Craftsman Bungalow *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): Constructed circa 1913 November 14, 1919. Garage added for $100. June 6, 1929. Reroof for $198. September 12, 1934. Unspecified alterations for $100. February 9, 1943. Reroof for $85. April 4, 1944. Unspecified alterations for $50. *B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date:______ Original Location:_ ____________________ *B8. Related Features: None. B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Unknown *B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana Period of Significance: Circa 1900-1938 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: NR: C; CR: 3 (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity) The Hill House is architecturally significant as an intact and representative example of a Craftsman bungalow, constructed in the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood during its primary period of development, the first quarter of the twentieth century. The City of Santa Ana database lists the date of construction as 1915. However, the improvement appears in the 1912/1913 Santa Ana city directory, which lists Miss Grace Truscott as the owner and Miss Margaret Truscott and Thomas Truscott as residents. According to city directories, residency shifted by 1915 to Ernest Watson and his wife Gladys, but by 1920 the Truscott family were listed at this address again, with Thomas Truscott listed as head of the household, and Grace Truscott and Margaret Truscott, now a nurse, listed as residents. By 1925, Lyman Hill, a long-time employee of the Santa Ana Gas Company was the occupant, along with his wife Luella, who remained in the house at least through the early 1940s. In subsequent decades, ownership of the house changed several times. (See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) *B12. References: City of Santa Ana Building Permits Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library Sanborn Maps (See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) B13. Remarks: *B14. Evaluator: Leslie J. Heumann *Date of Evaluation: September 25, 2006 DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information Sketch Map (This space reserved for official comments.) 1909 N. Bush St. 113-141-19 State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 3_ of 3_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Hill House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell-Ardila *Date September 25, 2006 ⌧ Continuation Update DPR 523L *B10. Significance (continued): Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1886, and selection as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods developing around the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses. The Hill House is located in the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood. Located north of the neighborhoods of French Park and French Court, Santa Ana Triangle is bounded roughly by Santa Clara Avenue on the north, Seventeenth Street on the south, Interstate 5 on the east, and Main Street on the west. Interstate 5 conforms to the prominent diagonal swath originally cut by the Southern Pacific Railroad line, which was established in Santa Ana in the late 1870s and still forms the eastern border of the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood. By the early part of the twentieth century, single-family homes had begun to be constructed in the neighborhood, with the majority of improvements clustered on Bush Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the most rapid growth in the area took place between 1910 and 1915, when improvements on Bush Street increased by 50 percent (from 24 to 36), and improvements on Spurgeon more than doubled. Santa Ana Triangle’s growth in the early twentieth century owed much to its location along the Pacific Electric Railway line, which ran along Main Street on the neighborhood’s western border. Historian Diann Marsh characterized the arrival of the Pacific Electric Railway’s Red Car as “one of the most significant…events of 1906.” While the Southern Pacific Railway already offered travel to Los Angeles, the comfortably appointed Red Car was considered a vast improvement to the Southern Pacific line. The Red Car greatly increased accessibility to Santa Ana, which had already become a center of economic, commercial, and social activity in Orange County, and increased the fortunes of all communities through which it passed. By 1912, the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood had already been annexed by the City of Santa Ana, with most improvements consisting of wood-framed, single-family residences on parcels with an average size of 50-70 feet wide by 140-150 feet deep. The character of the area changed in the postwar period, with new construction accelerating in the 1950s and 1960s. As of 2006, approximately 44 percent of the extant buildings in the Santa Ana Triangle were constructed from 1950 through the 1980s. However, Santa Ana Triangle retains much of its original construction, primarily in the form of Craftsman bungalows, from the neighborhood’s early development during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Of the extant buildings in the neighborhood, approximately 42 percent were constructed from 1901 through 1925. The Hill House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Craftsman Bungalow style. Typical features of this style illustrated by the house include its horizontal lines keynoted by the low pitched, broadly eaved roof; use of wood siding; one-story height; and the prominence of the porch in the design. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of Santa Ana, and, as an intact example of a Craftsman bungalow in the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood, “is a good example of period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of the Hill House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and finishes (clapboard); roof configuration and detailing; massing; original windows and doors and their surrounds where extant; porch configuration and detailing, and architectural details such as arched bolsters on the porch supports. *B12. References (continued): Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998. Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994. McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991. Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995. Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969. Ball, Charles D. The Pioneer Churches of Santa Ana District. Santa Ana, CA, 1929. Sleeper, Jim. Turn the Rascals Out: The Life and Times of Orange County’s Fighting Editor Dan M. Baker. Trabuco Canyon, CA: California Classics, 1973. Orange County Plat Maps, 1912. Thomas Brothers Maps of Orange County, 1957 and 1964. Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-1954. Filename: Bush St N 1909 Final DPR Directory: M:\Historic Info\110206HRC\FINAL_DPRs Template: C:\My Documents\General\Forms\Myprimry.dot Title: P1. 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