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HomeMy WebLinkAbout040308_Template-JohnsonHouse_1205SCypress.pdf State 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) Johnson House P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: oNot for Publication nUnrestricted *a. County Orange County *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA1667 Date: *c. Address 1205 South Cypress Avenue City Santa Ana Zip 92707 *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 014-012-03 *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) Capped by a pair of low-pitched front gables with wide overhanging eaves, this one-story Craftsman bungalow features an asymmetrical façade, rectangular plan, and narrow clapboard siding. Wood siding faces the gable ends, which are framed by plain vergeboards and exposed purlins. Matching latticed vents with wood frames mark the apexes of the gable ends. Projecting from the south half of the façade, the porch features battered supports set on square brick pedestals. The porch, elevated three steps above ground level, is otherwise unenclosed. It shelters a tripartite, wood-framed window with a sixteen-light transom, flanked by a set of narrow double -hung sashes, and a wide front door, which features glazing with a typical Craftsman-style muntin pattern. Marking the north side of the façade is a pair of double-hung sash windows with wood frames, projecting sill, and a flared lintel. These windows are shaded by a pergola, which extends north from the porch and is supported by a similar battered post set on a brick pedestal. Side elevations are fenestrated with double -hung sash windows with wood surrounds and flared lintels. Alterations include an addition to the rear of the property, as well as a non- original garage door that h as been installed in the one -story, front-gabled, wood-clad garage located southeast of the house. The property is otherwise substantially unaltered and in good condition. *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 1922/City of Santa Ana Building Permits *P7. Owner and Address: George Wulff 1205 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 en ter “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 California ¾ The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________ BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD Page 2 of 4 *CHR Status Code _5S1__________________________ *Resource Name or #: Johnson House B1. Historic Name: Johnson 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 1922 July 1922. Residence and garage constructed, $4,000. April 18, 1938. Addition constructed, $500. September 4, 1943. Reroof, $157. May 9, 1991. Reroof with tear off comp. 23 square feet, $4,400. *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. Also address integrity) The Johnson House is architecturally significant as an intact example of a modest Craftsman Bungalow from the earliest phase of residential development in Madison Park. According to the original building permit, dated July 1922, just six months after McFadden Home Place was subdivided and offered for sale, the original owner of the house was Ben W. Johnson, a carpenter. Johnson and his wife Edna owned and resided in the property for approximately a decade. By 1933, the home was occupied by Charles N. Turner, a hoseman with the Santa Ana City Fire Department, and his wife Cecile. The Turners remained in the residence for a few years. By 1935, Edgar M. Higday and his wife Mary occupied the home, where they remained until at least 1954. Higday was employed as an office manager with Van Dien-Young Company, a building materials and trucking company located at 621 King Street in Santa Ana. Ownership of the home has since changed on multiple occasions. (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 Sketch Map (This space reserved for official comments.) 1205 S. Cypress Ave. 014-012-03 State of California ¾ The Re sources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 3_ of 4_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Johnson House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date March 4, 2008 x Continuation o 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 a s 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 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 Johnson House is located in 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 Californ ia with his wife Agnes and three brothers, John, Robert, 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. 794). 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 Madison 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 modest 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 the 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) domina ted 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 Re sources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 4_ of 4_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Johnson House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date March 4, 2008 x Continuation o Update DPR 523L *B10. Significance (continued): The Johnson 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 expo sed structural features such as the gable support structure and exposed purlins; the horizontal emphasis of the low-pitched roof with wide, overhanging eaves; and incorporation of characteristic elements such as a front porch and tripartite fenestration. 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 o f period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of the Johnson 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) entry; and architectural details such as battered porch supports and pergola. *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. 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