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HomeMy WebLinkAbout040308_Template-GardinerHouse_1449SCypress.pdfState of California ¾ 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 _4_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Gardiner House P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: oNot for Publication nUnrestricted *a. County Orange County *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA1667 Date: *c. Address 1449 South Cypress Avenue City Santa Ana Zip 92707 *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 014-031-34 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) Square in plan and clad in horizontal wood siding, this one-story Craftsman bungalow features a prominent, low-pitched cross-gable roof with wide overhanging eaves. Roof detailing includes plain vergeboards, exposed beams, and vents consisting of alternating narrow and wide vertical slats located in the gable ends. The front gable spans the façade and shelters a full-length porch. Four battered posts, with simple capitals and bases, are set on square, stucco-clad pedestals and support the roof overhang. Centered on the façade, the entry consists of a wide wood door framed by a plain wood surround with a slightly extended lintel. To either side of the entry, large, fixed sash windows are banded across the top b y eight lights. Side elevations are fenestrated with multi -light casement and double -hung sash windows, arranged in a variety of configurations and framed by plain wood surrounds with slightly extended lintels and projecting sills. A secondary entrance is located on the n orth elevation, which also contains a squared bay topped by a side gable. Alterations include metal window screens, metal entrance gates, a wood fence, and non-original door on the garage, which is located in the northeast corner of the property. The residence is otherwise substantially intact. *P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP2. Single-family Property *P4. Resources Present: nBuilding oStructure oObject oSite oDistrict oElement of District oOther P5b. Photo: (view and date) West elevation January 2008 *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: nhistoric 1923/City of Santa Ana Building Permits *P7. Owner and Address: Rufino and Josefa Munoz 1449 S. Cypress Ave. Santa Ana, CA 92707 *P8. Recorded by: L. Heumann and D.Howell-Ardila Sapphos Environmental, Inc. 133 Martin Alley Pasadena, California 91105 *P9. Date Recorded: March 4, 2008 *P10. Survey Type: Intensive Survey Update *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter “none”) *Attachments: oNone oLocation Map oSketch Map nContinuation Sheet nBuilding, Structure, and Object Record oArchaeological Record oDistrict Record oLinear Feature Record oMilling Station Record oRock Art Record oArtifact Record oPhotograph Record o Other (list) DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information P5a. Photo State of Ca lifornia ¾ The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________ BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD Page 2 of 4 *CH R Status Code _5S1__________________________ *Resource Name or #: Gardiner House B1. Historic Name: Gardiner 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 1923 October 1923. Residence and garage constructed, $3,000. February 18, 1969. Repair floor (water damage), $175. October 8, 2002. Reroof, $5,600. *B7. Moved? n No o Yes o 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 1920 – 1958 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. A lso address integrity) The Gardiner House is architecturally significant as an intact example of a modest Craftsman bungalow from the earliest perio d of residential development of Madison Park. According to the original building permit, dated October 192 3, the first owner of the house was John C. Gardiner. City directories indicate that, by 1929, the home was occupied by Oscar Larzelere, a millman at the Barr Lumber Company, and his wife Dorothy. Residency had shifted again by 1933, when Eugene R. Hitt and his wife Helen moved into the property, where they remained until at least 1947. During this time, Hitt worked as a clerk and bookkeeper with First National Bank, Van Dien -Young Company, and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraphy Company. By 1954, Jacob F. Lange resided in the home. In subsequent decades, occupancy changed several times. (See Continuation Sheet 3 of 4.) 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 4 of 4.) B13. Remarks: *B14. Evaluator: Leslie J. Heumann *Date of Evaluation: March 4, 2008 DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information *B10. Significance (continued): Sketch Map (This space reserved for official comments.) 1449 S. Cypress Ave. 014-031-34 State of California ¾ The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 3_ of 4_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Gardiner House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date March 4, 2008 x Continuation o Update DPR 523L 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 comm ercial 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 selecti on 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 Gardiner House is located i n the Madison Park neighborhood. Located southeast of the original borders of Santa Ana, Madison Park is bounded by McFadden Avenue on the north, Standard Avenue on the east, St. Andrew Place on the south, and South Main Street on the west. Described in 1880 as the “Egypt of America” (Wilson, History of Los Angeles County) because of its fertility, the land south of Santa Ana’s original town site was purchased in the 1860s by two pioneering Santa Ana families: the Cozads, who owned an 800 -acre parcel east of Main Street, and James McFadden, a rancher and businessman from New York who settled in Santa Ana in 1868, at which point he purchased 4,000 acres south of the city. McFadden, who had moved to California with his wife Agnes and three brothers, John, R obert, and Archibald, soon acquired the Cozad tract and settled in the brick residence constructed by the Cozad family at the corner of South Main Street and McFadden Avenue, the northwesternmost corner of present-day (2008) Madison Park. By 1883, McFadden had established a 2,500 -acre ranch and had become “one of the most energetic, progressive and prosperous farmers in Southern California” (Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1883). In 1886, McFadden, along with William Spurgeon, H.H. Wakeman, Miles Crookshank, and Samuel Preble, established the Santa Ana and Newport Railway Company, connecting Santa Ana on a 10-mile line to the harbor at Newport. The line followed the route of present-day Highway 55, the Costa Mesa Freeway. In 1888, James and Robert McFadden constructed a wharf in Newport to facilitate delivery of lumber and other goods to Orange County. The Newport Pier, located at the southeast corner of Ocean Front and McFadden Place in Newport Beach, is now a California State Historical Landmark (No. 7 94). The McFadden presence in south Santa Ana’s development continued in the 1920s. In January 1922, Jeanette McFadden, Archibald’s daughter, offered for sale parcels in the subdivision of the McFadden Home Place No. 1, located in the neighborhood’s northwestern corner. Jeanette McFadden was head librarian of the Santa Ana Public Library from 1901 to 1935; during her tenure, she greatly expanded the library’s collection, with a focus on regional history. The original plan of the McFadden Home Place reflects existing lot sizes and configurations, with lots approximately 60 feet wide by 160 deep, in a six-block subdivision spanning 168 parcels. Two similar subdivisions in adjacent land soon followed, with the McFadden Home Place No. 2 (March 1922, co-owned by A.B. and F.A. Rousselle) and McFadden Home Tract No. 3 (February 1922), with similarly modest-sized parcels of approximately 50 feet wide by 125 feet deep. Proximity to one of the many routes of the Pacific Electric Railway line, which traversed Ma dison Park along Maple Street, encouraged settlement in the new neighborhood. Improvements constructed in the early 1920s in McFadden Home Place tracts, as well as subdivisions in the neighborhood’s southwestern strip along St. Andrew Place, reflected mod est versions of the residential styles popular at the time, including Craftsman Bungalows and Colonial Revival bungalows, many of which are extant. Construction in the neighborhood was brisk in the early 1920s. By 1925, nearly 200 improvements lined th e streets, according to a count in city directories. Included in the residential parcels of the McFadden Home Place was the east side o f South Main Street, from the 1200 to 1900 blocks. In the early 1930s, the residential character of South Main Street started to shift increasingly to commercial uses. By 1947, most of the residential parcels showed improvements, with the eastern half of the neighborhood (as yet not annexed to the City of Santa Ana) dominated by agriculture, with walnut and orange groves, several farm houses, and pea fields. The mid- to late 1950s and 1960s brought the piecemeal annexation and gradual dissolution of the large orange and walnut groves on the neighborhood’s eastern portion, with housing developments consisting mostly of ranch-style homes, arranged on a street grid dotted with cul-de-sacs. The late 1950s also brought construction of Madison Elementary School and Madison Park near Hobart Street and Standard Avenue. In 1984, the last agricultural holdout in Madison Park, consisting of a 3 -acre walnut grove and farmhouse on Hobart Street, was annexed and developed with residences. (See Continuation Sheet 4 of 4.) State of California ¾ The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 4_ of 4_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Gardiner House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date March 4, 2008 x Continuation o Update DPR 523L *B10. Significance (continued): The Gardiner 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. Typical features of this style illustrated b y the house include its emphasis on exposed structural features such as exposed rafters a nd purlins; the horizontal emphasis of the low-pitched roof with wide, overhanging eaves; and incorporation of characteristic elements such as a front porch and battered supports. 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 modest Craftsman Bungalow style in the Madison Park neighborhood, “is a good example of period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of the Gardin er House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and finishes (siding); roof configuration and detailing; massing; original windows and doors and their surrounds where extant; porch configuration, detailing, and main (west) e ntry; and architectural details such as battered porch supports and distinctive muntin patterns. *B12. References (continued): Aerial Mapping Company, Boise, ID. Santa Ana aerial photograph 25 March 1959 (#3-15-102, 261). Orange County Archives. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Santa Ana. Aerial photographs, 22 June 1938 (AXK-56- 36) and 28 June 1942 (AXK-1B-24). Orange County Archives. Donaldson, Steven E., and William A. Myers. Rails through the Orange Groves: A Centennial Look at the Railroads of Orange County, California (Vol. 1). Glendale, CA: Trans-Anglo Books, 1989. Fairchild Air Photo, Los Angeles. Santa Ana aerial photographs, 1947, 1970. Orange County Archives. Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: WW Norton, 1998. Los Angeles Times. “A Santa Ana Farm: James McFadden’s Prolific Rancho Described by Editor Campbell.” 1 December 1883. Available at ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles times (1881-1986), p. 2. Los Angeles Times. “The Railroads: Rumor of More Southern Pacific Land Purchases.” 27 August 1891. Available at ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles times (1881-1986), p. 8. Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, CA: 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. Orange County Plat Maps, 1912. Pacific Air Industries, Long Beach, CA. Aerial photograph of Santa Ana, 5 -33, 21960-4. 15 July 1955. Orange County Archives. Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905 -1962. Santa Ana Register. “Pioneer Resident Called By Death” (Jeanette E. McFadden obituary). 2 July 1943, p. 1. 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. Thomas Brothers Maps of Orange County, 1957 and 1964. Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780 . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969. Wilson, John Albert. History of Los Angeles County. Oakland, CA: Thompson & West, 1880.