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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
DELUXE APARTMENTS
315 West Tenth Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701
NAME Deluxe Apartments REF. NO. 125
ADDRESS 315 West Tenth Street
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92701 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1935 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Landmark
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Willard
NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C NATIONAL REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S1
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Art Deco
The Art Deco style is characterized by smooth wall surfaces, often of stucco; zig zags, chevrons, fluting, reeding, and other low-relief
stylized and geometric motifs as decorative elements on the façade; accents of terra cotta, glass, or metal; polychromy; rectangular or
compound forms; and a more vertical emphasis than its close stylistic relative, Streamline Moderne. Art Deco was essentially a style
of decoration, and was applied to jewelry, clothing, furniture and handicrafts as well as architecture. In style between 1920 and 1940,
Art Deco was popularized by the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. It was most commonly utilized on commercial
or public buildings, sometimes in combination with the Gothic Revival whose verticality and sculptural decoration was ideally suited
to the Art Deco style.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
Included in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Property, the Deluxe Apartments have been categorized as “Landmark” because the
building “has a unique architectural significance” as a rare and substantially intact example of a multi-family Art Deco residential
building. (Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
• National Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From Appendix 7 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of
Historic Preservation)
C: that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the
work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity
whose components may lack individual distinction.
• National Register Status Code: (From Appendix 2 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of Historic
Preservation)
5S1: Not eligible for National Register but of local interest because the resource is separately listed or designated
under an existing local ordinance.