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Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Utterback House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA1667 Date:
*c. Address 5218 West Silver Drive City Santa Ana Zip 92703
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number Block: Lot: 099-213-37
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.)
This highly intact Craftsman Bungalow is estimated to have been constructed in circa 1915 (though the city database shows
construction in 1932 and 1939). The house has a rectangular plan and is sheathed in a decorative pattern of alternating
widths of wood siding, emphasizing the horizontal axis. The front gabled roof, which is shingled, has a low pitch and wide,
overhanging eaves, beneath which rafters are exposed. The roof gable is vented with a pattern of narrow vertical slats. This
pattern continues in the porch gable below, in which decorative truss work combines with exposed structural elements in a
reflection of the arts and crafts aesthetic. Square porch supports, clustered in groups of three, are joined at the top in a
simple post-and-beam style. A partial-length porch is recessed into the northeast half of the façade. The front entrance
faces the street. Façade windows are broad, eight-over-one double-hung sash, surrounded by plain, projecting wooden
surrounds. The west elevation has a band of double-hung sash windows, with a gable above, as well as two rectangular
one-over-one double-hung sash windows toward the back of the house. The east elevation displays a set of four-over-one
double-hung sash windows separated by a ribbon of multipane glazing, unified by a single extended wooden lintel. Behind
the house, in the southeast corner, is a garage with front gable and clapboard siding. A non-original wheelchair ramp leads
up to the porch and entryway.
*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)
North and west elevations
May 2006
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
Circa 1915
*P7. Owner and Address:
Silver Acres Church
5218 West Silver Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92703
*P8. Recorded by:
Leslie J. Heumann and
Deborah Howell-Ardila
Sapphos Environmental, Inc.
133 Martin Alley
Pasadena, California 91105
*P9. Date Recorded:
May 28, 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
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*Recorded by Planning Department – City and County of San Francisco *Date ⌧ Continuation Update
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
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*Resource Name or #: Utterback House
B1. Historic Name: Utterback 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 1915
The earliest record on file with the City of Santa Ana for the Utterback House is a 1968 plumbing permit, reflecting the date the
residence was connected to the city sewer line; this date marks the subdivision of the parcel on which this house is located.
The plumbing permit was filed by the owner, the Silver Acres Church, which city directories indicate as the owner of the
property as early as 1954. The most recent building permit is from 1990, when the house was reroofed for $5,000. In 1962,
when the property appeared in the city directory for the first time, John W. Utterback was listed as the pastor of the Silver
Acres Church and the property owner.
*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 1895-1956 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 Utterback House is architecturally significant as a representative example of a Craftsman Bungalow dating to the early
twentieth century. Its exact date of construction is unknown and is estimated, based on appearance and the architectural
chronology of Santa Ana, to be around 1915 (though the Santa Ana city database indicates two different years of construction,
1932 and 1939). Besides the addition of a wheelchair ramp leading to the front entry and a garage in the southwest corner of
the property, the house shows few signs of alteration and thus retains a high degree of historical integrity as a good example
of the early twentieth-century Craftsman Bungalow in a neighborhood otherwise dominated by large-scale 1950s and 1960s
construction.
(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: May 28, 2006
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
5218 West Silver Drive
099-213-37
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*Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell-Ardila *Date May 28, 2006 ⌧ Continuation Update
DPR 523L
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
*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 to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with
cultivated fields and orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
The Utterback House is located in Riverview West, a neighborhood west of the Santa Ana River that was carved from a
neighboring land grant, the Rancho Las Bolsas, which encompassed the present day cities of Garden Grove, Westminster,
and Huntington Beach. Originally granted to the Nieto family in 1784, and confirmed in 1834, the Rancho became part of the
extensive holdings of southern California land baron Abel Stearns in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bounded by
Westminster Avenue on the north, Edinger Avenue and the Santa Ana city limits on the south, Harbor Boulevard on the east,
and Euclid Street and the city limits on the west, the neighborhood was located in the Bolsa Road District in the early days of
the twentieth century; the Bolsa Road District was a settlement centered on the intersection of Bolsa and Brookhurst Avenues
in present day Westminster. According to the 1912 plat maps of Orange County, the neighborhood was divided into plots of
land that averaged twenty to forty acres and were presumably primarily agricultural in use.
Construction of houses in the Riverview West neighborhood began during the post-World War II building boom around 1949,
when the area was an unincorporated portion of Orange County, and accelerated greatly in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Santa Ana’s population in 1950 was 45,000, and its land area was 10.42 square miles. By 1960, both the population, at
100,350, and land area, at 22.8 square miles, had more than doubled. Annexed to the City in 1957 and 1958, Riverview
West was part of this pattern of growth. Today, the neighborhood reflects this definitive period of development in its tracts of
modestly sized, California Ranch style homes. With a large Hispanic population by the time of its incorporation, the
neighborhood in the final quarter of the twentieth century has also become home to a large Vietnamese community, whose
temples have become local landmarks.
The Utterback House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Property under Criterion 3 for its
exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Craftsman Bungalow style. Typical features of this style illustrated
by the house include its low-pitched, wide-eaved roof, wood siding, rectangular plan, one-story height, decorative truss work
in gables, and recessed porch. 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 the early twentieth century Craftsman Bungalow
style in the Riverview West neighborhood, “is a good example of period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of
the Utterback House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and finishes (siding); roof
configuration and detailing; massing; original windows (in particular, the multipane sashes)and doors where extant; the porch
and its clustered supports and exposed wooden joinery; and architectural details such as the vented gables and the
configuration and geometric patterns of wooden beams in the porch gables.
*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.
Orange County Plat Maps, 1912.
Thomas Brothers Maps of Orange County, 1957 and 1964.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1954-1962.
Robinson, W. W. Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County. Los Angeles: Title Insurance and Trust Company,
1954.
Talbert, Thomas B., Editor-in-Chief. Historical Volume and Reference Works Volume 1: Orange County. Whittier: Historical
Publishers, 1963.
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