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HomeMy WebLinkAbout040204_Template-TaylorOglesbyHouse_2510NValencia.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) Taylor-Oglesby House P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA 1725 Date: *c. Address 2510 North Valencia Street City Santa Ana Zip 92706 *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 396-421-11; SEC 6 T 5 R LOT 96 X 150 FT *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) A bellcast, hipped roof crowns this square, two-story Colonial Revival house characterized by the box-like massing indicative of the Classic Box genre. The roof treatment includes bracketed eaves and a centered front-gabled dormer over the façade. Narrow clapboard sheathes the house, with a bracketed overhang between stories. Recessed into the southern two-thirds of the façade, the porch is divided into three bays by paired Tuscan columns. At the top of six steps in the center of the façade, the entry consists of a glazed door flanked by leaded glass sidelights. A large window to the left (south) is spanned by a leaded glass transom; the window to the right is hidden by shrubbery. Other windows are double-hung sash, with muntins arranged in a diamond pattern in the upper sashes. A tripartite window over the entry appears to be a balcony enclosure. On the west elevation, an attached brick chimney appears to have been rebuilt. Although a semi-circular extension of the porch at the southeast corner of the house is said to have been removed in the 1930s, the house appears to retain a high degree of integrity. A modern landscape of ornamental grasses is juxtaposed against mature camellias and roses as well as avocado and macadamia nut trees. The large property is enclosed by a modern brick and iron fence. *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 December 2003 *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: historic Circa 1908 *P7. Owner and Address: Wendell D. and Margery V. Cole 2510 North Valencia Street Santa Ana, CA 92706 *P8. Recorded by: Leslie J. Heumann SAIC 35 S. Raymond Ave. # 204 Pasadena, CA 91105 *P9. Date Recorded: December 31, 2003 *P10. Survey Type: Intensive Survey Update *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter “none”) Les, Kathleen. “2510 and 2520 North Valencia.” Historic Resources Survey, March 1980. *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 *NRHP Status Code_3S_________________________ *Resource Name or #: Taylor-Oglesby House B1. Historic Name: Taylor-Oglesby House B2. Common Name: Camellia House 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 circa 1908. April 4, 1933. Rebuild one chimney. November 19, 1947. Private garage, 18’ by 22’. May 22, 1968. Private swimming pool. June 3, 1958. Convert garage to bedroom, add carport and storage shed. April 30, 1970. Repair fire damage. April 28, 1992. Reroof with tear off. August 26, 1993. Reroof with no tear off, new composition roof. *B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date:__________ Original Location:_423 Edgewood Road *B8. Related Features: Mature trees and flowering shrubs. B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Charles Taylor (attributed) *B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana Period of Significance: circa 1901-1954 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 Taylor-Oglesby House is architecturally significant as a fine example of the Classic Box variant of the Colonial Revival style. One of a pair of very similar homes located next to each other on over-sized parcels, the house is also notable as one of the earlier homes in the Park Santiago neighborhood. According to previous research and neighborhood lore, this house and its neighbor (2520 North Valencia Street) were constructed for two elderly sisters, Laura and Mary Taylor, by their brother, Charles Taylor, and were originally identical. City directories list the Taylors on Edgewood Road, with no house (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: December 31, 2003 DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information Sketch Map (This space reserved for official comments.) Taylor-Oglesby House 2510 North Valencia Street State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 3_ of 4_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Taylor-Oglesby House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann, SAIC *Date December 31, 2003 ⌧ Continuation Update DPR 523L *B10. Significance (continued): numbers, beginning in 1908 and continuing through 1918. In 1922, Thomas W. Oglesby, a paving contractor, his wife Susie, and children Rebecca and Thomas Junior were living at 423 Edgewood. In 1927, this house became 2410 North Valencia. It is not clear if the house was actually moved to make way for an extension of Valencia or if it was merely renumbered when the street was subdivided. The present owners, Wendell Cole and family, have resided in the house since 1959. Mr. Cole’s grandfather, Porter Charles Edmons, was one of the pioneer families in Orange County and was a farmer on Fruit Street. Mr. Edmons delivered fresh groceries to both of the Taylor Houses in the early 1900s by a horse drawn buck board. The Taylor-Oglesby House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood, near the present northern city limits of Santa Ana and substantially north of the original city core. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Park on the north, East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west, and the I-5 freeway on the southwest. In large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up Main Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way mirrored the freeway route. This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s. As of 1905, the city directories listed around twenty households on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, “C Street” (now North Santiago Street), North Bush Street and North Main Avenue, the only streets in the area at the time. The vast majority of the residents were ranchers. By 1911, the number of households had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Road and Valencia Street had been partially laid out, but most residents continued to list “rancher” or “fruit grower” as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of land use was evident on the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north of Santa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with the remaining area divided into larger, agricultural parcels held by approximately forty landowners. While the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets west of Santiago had been laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be the most prevalent occupation in the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service professions such as painters, electricians, and carpenters made their homes in the western half of the neighborhood during the 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted several city and county officials, including the City Attorney (Z. B. West, Jr., 321 East Santa Clara Avenue), County Supervisor, First District (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2407 North Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By April 1942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been improved with single-family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent development of the eastern half of the neighborhood and infill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style that emerged following World War II. The Taylor-Oglesby House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its representation of the distinguishing characteristics of the Classic Box variant of the Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Landmark” because it “has a unique architectural significance” as a well-detailed and highly intact example of the Classic Box variant of the Colonial Revival style. Notable in this regard are the box-like massing, hipped roof with dormer, Tuscan columns, and highly ornamental treatment of the windows and brackets. All original and restored exterior features of the Taylor-Oglesby House are considered character-defining and should be preserved. These features include, but may not be limited to: sheathing (clapboard); roof configuration and detailing; massing; windows and doors; porch; architectural details (porch supports, window and door surrounds, brackets, etc.); and any original landscaping. *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. Park Santiago Neighborhood Association. “The Gingerbread Lane Holiday Home Tour 2002.” Brochure. Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society. “Home and Garden Tour May 18, 1996.” Brochure. State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 4_ of 4_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Taylor-Oglesby House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann, SAIC *Date December 31, 2003 ⌧ Continuation Update DPR 523L Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1901-1930. Historic Maps, Santa Ana History Room, 1912, 1923, 1932, and 1955. “Preserving the old’s a passion for collectors.” The Register, May 20, 1982.