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Page _1_ of _4_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Brooks House P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: oNot for Publication nUnrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA1667 Date:
*c. Address 919 West Camile Street City Santa Ana Zip 92703
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 008-242-49
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.)
Capped by a medium -pitched, side-gabled roof accented by a centered, front-gabled dormer, this is a one-story Craftsman
bungalow. Supported by stepped beams, the roof sweeps out towards the front at a more shallow pitch to shelter a full-
length porch. Roof detailing includes the beams, exposed rafters in the eaves, plain bargeboards, and latticed vents in the
peaks of the gable ends. The body of the house is clad in narrow clapboard, with shakes sheathing the dormer and gable
ends above a plain stringcourse punctuated by purlins. Within the dormer, a tripartite opening consisting of small, two -over-
two, double -hung sash flanking a central louver vent is topped by an extended lintel that also features purlins. Slender,
paneled posts sitting on paneled piers divide the porch into three bays, with stairs leading from the cement entry path up to
the entrance in the center bay. A wood slat railing encloses the space. The beam spanning the porch is shaped to resemble
a flattened arch across the front, with more pronounced arches at either end connecting the end posts to the house. Broadly
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 4.)
*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)
South elevation
January 2007
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: nhistoric
1922/City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Angelita Alberran
919 W. Camile Street
Santa Ana, CA 92703
*P8. Recorded by:
L. Heumann and D. Howell -Ardila
Sapphos Environmental, Inc.
133 Martin Alley
Pasadena, California 91105
*P9. Date Recorded:
January 26, 2007
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter “none”)
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 #__________________________________________
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 4 *CHR Status Code _5S1__________________________
*Resource Name or #: Brooks House B1. Historic Name: Brooks 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 in 1922
July 1922. Residence.
September 29, 1937. Reroof.
March 31, 1948. Remodel residence.
*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 1900-1954 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 Brooks House is architecturally significant as a n intact and well-detailed Craftsman bungalow in a neighborhood of simply
styled homes that mostly have been significantly altered over time. According to the building permit, the house, valued at
$4,300, was constructed in July 1922 for Lloyd Brooks. Brooks apparently never lived in the house, which housed thirteen
different families, most for only a year, between 1924 and 1947. Most of the wage-earners during these years were blue collar
or white collar workers, with occupations including sales, engraving, oil worker, painter, clerk, cable splicer, driver, and
electrician. Building permit records indicate that Hasty family owned the property from the late 1940s through at least 1956.
(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 Ro om Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 4 of 4.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie J. Heumann
*Date of Evaluation: January 26, 2007
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
919 W. Camile Street
008-242-49
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*Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date January 26, 2007 x Continuation o Update
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*P3a. Description (continued):
proportioned tripartite windows banded by diamond -paned transoms are located in the side bays. The central entry features
three, small, rectangular lights arranged in an ascending pattern. Windows on the side elevations are primarily double-hung
sash in type. All of the openings are topped by extended lintels. A picket fence encloses the property, which also contains a
front-gabled garage in the rear. The house is substantially unaltered.
*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 neighborhood s
developing around the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and orchards
dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
The Brooks House is located in the Pico-Lowell neighborhood, which lies southwest of downtown Santa Ana and the Civic
Center. Taking its name from two local elementary schools, the neighborhood is bound by West First Street on the north,
West McFadden Avenue on the south, South Flower Street on the east and South Bristol Street on the we st. In common with
other areas not immediately adjacent to the historic core, Pico-Lowell saw a persistence of agricultural uses into the twentieth
century. By 1912, when plat maps were drawn of Orange County, a little more than half of the neighborhood, primarily the
eastern section, had been subdivided into residential-sized lots, with the remainder consolidated into ten large parcels. The
city directories indicate that over one hundred homes had been constructed by this time. Home building continued to thrive
during the 1910s and 1920s, tapering off by the end of the decade. As a result, the oldest homes in the neighborhood are
small to medium sized bungalows, most representative of the Craftsman style of architecture. Those sections of the
neighborhood that remained unimproved were developed in the post-war housing boom of the late 1940s and 1950s, when
hundreds of modest California Ranch style homes were constructed. Today (2007), the neighborhood is densely populated,
and its ethnicity has shifte d from Anglo-European to Hispanic.
The Brooks 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 b ungalow style. Typical features of this style illustrated
by the house include its celebration of structural elements such as beams, rafters, and purlins for their decorative value; the
horizontal emphasis of the side-gabled roof, clapboard siding, and extended lintels; and the incorporation of a generously-
sized porch for outdoor living into the floor plan. 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 well-detailed Craftsman
bungalow in the Pico-Lowell neighborhood, “is a good example of period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of
the Brooks House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and finishes (clapboard, shingles);
roof configuration and detailing; massing; original windows and doors and their surrounds where extant; porch); and
architectural details such as beams, rafters, purlins, stringcourses, piers, and balustrade.
*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. “Instruction s 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, 1912-1947.
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*Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date January 26, 2007 x Continuation o Update
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P5b. Photographs (continued):
South and west elevations, January 2007
Porch, south elevation, January 2007