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HomeMy WebLinkAbout060925_Template-MeltonHouse_2056NBush.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) Melton House P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA0054 Date: *c. Address 2056 North Bush Street City Santa Ana Zip 92706 *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 003-113-41 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) Rectangular in plan and symmetrical in design, this one-story Colonial Revival house features a low-pitched, front-gabled roof with an attached, front-gabled porch centered on the façade. The gables, both of which are clipped, end in plain bargeboards and are vented with alternating wide and narrow vertical strips of wood. Rafters are exposed in the slightly overhanging eaves. The gables are faced with the same narrow clapboard siding used on the house. The porch features two Tuscan columns that support the porch beam. Fenestration on the façade consists of two large, single sash windows spanned by two rows of eight lights. Plain wooden frames, with slightly extended lintels, surround the windows and doorway. The door is accented with three vertical window channels. Side elevation windows display a variety of configurations, including nine- over-one and one-over-one double-hung sash windows, framed in plain wood surrounds. In the northwest corner of the property is a garage that appears original; the garage features a gambrel roof and board-and-batten construction. A non- original wood picket fence encloses the south side of the property and edges the front lawn. In fair condition, the house appears 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) East elevation August 2006 *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: historic 1923/City of Santa Ana Building Permit *P7. Owner and Address: Walter MacFarlane 12091 Stanford Ave. Gardne Grove, CA 92840 *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) P5a. Photo State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary # __________________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # _____________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial __________________________________________________ Page 2 of 4 Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) *Recorded by Planning Department – City and County of San Francisco *Date ⌧ Continuation Update DPR 523L DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information 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 #: Melton House B1. Historic Name: Melton House B2. Common Name: Same B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence *B5. Architectural Style: Colonial Revival *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): Constructed in 1923 January 1923. Residence constructed for $2,000. June 6, 1929. Reroof for $153. January 10, 1944. A 10x20 addition made to residence for $200. June 10, 2003. Reroof. *B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date:______ Original Location:_ ____________________ *B8. Related Features: Garage. 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 Melton House is architecturally significant as an intact example of a modest Colonial Revival residence in the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood that illustrates a typical housing type of the 1920s. According to City of Santa Ana records, the house was constructed in 1923 for Chas Hoes, who was issued a permit to construct the house whose estimated value was $2,000. The 1925 city directory lists the owner as Turner L. Melton, an electrician with the Edison Company, and his wife Estella. The Meltons remained in the house until the early 1930s, Herbt Hearle and his wife Josephine became the residents. By 1940, the house had changed hands again, when E. Lloyd Killingsworth, part-owner of the Beebe & Killingsworth auto repair shop, and his wife Elizabeth moved in. The Killingsworth family remained in the house until the early 1950s, after which point the ownership of the house shifted several times in subsequent decades. (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.) 2056 N. Bush St. 003-113-41 State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 4_ of 3_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Melton 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 Melton 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 Melton House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revival style. Typical features of this style illustrated by the house include the Tuscan columns supporting the porch roof, jerkinhead (or clipped) gable, and the symmetrical arrangement of features on the façade. 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 Colonial Revival house in the Santa Ana Triangle neighborhood, “is a good example of period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of the Melton House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and finishes (clapboard siding); roof configuration and detailing (clipped gables); massing and symmetry; original windows and doors and their surrounds where extant; the porch, its Tuscan columns and plain beams; architectural details such as exposed rafters, bargeboards, and patterned wooden slats in gable vents. *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. 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 2056 Final DPR Directory: M:\Historic Info\110206HRC\FINAL_DPRs Template: C:\My Documents\General\Forms\Myprimry.dot Title: P1. 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