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HomeMy WebLinkAbout020919_Template-HuffSleeperHouse_316SCypress.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 4_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Huff-Sleeper House P1. Other Identifier: *P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County *b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA 2555 Date: *c. Address 316 South Cypress Avenue City Santa Ana Zip 92701 *e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 404-096-08; BLEES 2ND ADD LOT 7 BLK E N 60 FT-EX N 8 INCH-THEREOF, LOT 8 AND 9 BLK E N 67 FT-EX N 8 INCH-THEREOF *P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries.) A picturesque combination of Colonial Revival and early Craftsman features characterizes the design of this two and a half story residence. The complex roof incorporates a truncated hip over the main body of the house, with a steeply pitched front gable crowning the projecting north wing of the structure. A front-gabled dormer emerges from the hipped portion of the roof. Carved rafter tails are exposed beneath flared eaves. Narrow clapboard sheathes the exterior surfaces. Windows are a mixture of fixed lights, double-hung sash, and casements, with “X”-patterned muntins a consistent decorative element in transoms, sidelights, fixed windows, and upper sashes. The front gable features an oval attic window divided by vertically curved muntins and accented by a keystone. The dormer, in addition to exposed beam-ends and carved rafter tails, boasts an elaborately styled horizontal light with “X”-patterned muntins, a molded sill, small Ionic pilasters, and an ornately carved lintel. Spanning the lower story façade, the front porch has been extended to the north over the driveway to form a porte cochere. Tudor arched openings and a closed railing are covered in stucco, as is the closed railing of the balcony (See Continuation Sheet 3 of 4.) *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 August 2002 *P6. Date Constructed/Age and Sources: historic Circa 1902 *P7. Owner and Address: Steven J. Dzida 1846 Kinglet Court Costa Mesa, CA 92626 *P8. Recorded by: Leslie J. Heumann, Peter C. Moruzzi SAIC 35 S. Raymond Ave. # 204 Pasadena, CA 91105 *P9. Date Recorded: September 19, 2002 *P10. Survey Type: Intensive Survey Update *P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter “none”) Les, Kathleen. “Historic Resources Inventory, Southeast Quad”, September 1979. *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 4 *NRHP Status Code_5S1_________________________ *Resource Name or #: Huff-Sleeper House B1. Historic Name: Huff-Sleeper House B2. Common Name: Same B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence *B5. Architectural Style: Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman *B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): Constructed circa 1902. October 14, 1927. Reroof residence. June 27, 1944. Addition to residence. February 21, 1947. Termite work. November 10, 1970. Rooming house –maximum 5 guests. July 3, 1974. Add steel stairway for second exit. June 29,1994. Fire damage repair to staircase, walls, ceiling. Repair walls and flooring at upstairs bathroom. Repair pantry. June 26, 2000. Reroof. August 3, 2000. On flat area rebuild deck railing and apply new BUR (built up roof). *B7. Moved? No Yes 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: 1873-1931 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: B, C (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity) The Huff-Sleeper House is architecturally significant as an example of the combination of Colonial Revival and Craftsman design that was favored in the first few years of the twentieth century in southern California. It is also historically notable for its association with two well-known Santa Ana families. The 1905 Santa Ana Directory lists Will A. and Edith Huff as the residents. Mr. Huff was the proprietor of Huff Brothers Clothing Store, a fine clothier located at 109 West Fourth Street. He was also related, through the marriage of his brother Charles, to Lulu Howe, daughter of Dr. Willella Howe-Waffle, Orange County’s first woman doctor. Mr. Will Huff was later president of W. A. Huff Company and of Farmers and Merchants National Bank. In 1930, following Mr. Huff’s death, the house was sold to the James Sleeper family, who resided there for ten years while Mr. Sleeper served as County Assessor. Grandson Jim Sleeper is a noted Santa Ana historian (Les, 1979). In the 1970s, according to the building permit record, the house was converted into a rooming house. (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: September 19, 2002 DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information Sketch Map (This space reserved for official comments.) Huff-Sleeper House 316 S. Cypress Avenue 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) Huff-Sleeper House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann, Peter C. Moruzzi, SAIC *Date September 19, 2002 ⌧ Continuation Update DPR 523L *P3a. Description (continued): which tops the most of the porch and porte cochere. A cornice molding punctuated by corbels separates the two levels. Heavy concrete piers, ornamented by crossed wood appliqués, define three bays on the lower story. Clusters of four Tuscan columns, which sit on the porch railing, frame the larger, central bay. Located in the north bay, the entry is announced by concrete steps flanked by urn-topped pedestals. Extremely generously proportioned, the hardwood front door is flanked by leaded glass sidelights. Opening onto the porch south of the entrance, a cant bay with a fixed center window and an X-patterned transom contains French doors on either side. The side elevations feature additional bay projections; ascending windows on the north mark the location of an interior staircase. Visible alterations to the residence include the addition of the porte cochere, the substitution of concrete for wood railings, the installation of French doors in place of windows, and the addition of wrought iron railings at the entry and porte cochere. Nonetheless, the house retains enough integrity to maintain an impressive presence on the street. *B10. Significance (continued): Located southeast of downtown Santa Ana, the Eastside neighborhood is bounded by First Street on the north, McFadden Avenue on the south, Standard Avenue on the east and Main Street on the west. Situated south of the tract purchased by William Spurgeon in 1869 and recorded as original town of Santa Ana in 1870, the neighborhood’s beginnings date to the same period. In 1868, Nelson O. Stafford and Columbus Tustin, both from Petaluma, California, purchased 1359 acres of the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana south of what would become First Street. The following year, the two men split the property, with Mr. Tustin obtaining 703 acres of the eastern portion upon which he founded the town of Tustin in 1870. Stafford’s western acreage, thereafter called the Stafford Tract, lay south of First Street, east of Main Street, and north of McFadden Street, the area now known as Eastside. After selling a portion of this property, Nelson Stafford settled on his land in 1873, building a large house for his young wife and their children. Stafford died in 1878, and his widow, Amanda, opened the house to boarders, one of whom was Robert James Blee, formerly of Pennsylvania. In 1880, Blee bought 36 acres of land at the corner of First and Main Streets from Mrs. Stafford, including the Stafford residence. Blee married Amanda Stafford in 1882. Monroe David Halladay was another pioneer who made a significant contribution to the development of the Eastside neighborhood. Halladay came from Michigan to Santa Ana in 1876 for health reasons and purchased 20 acres from Nelson Stafford. Halladay built his first home in 1877 on East First Street, surveying and selling a few lots of his property but never platting it. In 1887, Chestnut, Pine, and Walnut Streets were laid out on his land; then, in 1888, Halladay sold ten acres of the property. On his remaining ten acres he grew raisins, walnuts, and apples. Also in 1888, Halladay built and occupied the magnificent Stick/Eastlake (Late Victorian) house that still stands on the southwest corner of East Chestnut and Halladay Streets. An 1887 map of Santa Ana, drawn a year after Santa Ana’s incorporation as a city, documents the early growth of the neighborhood, with house-sized lots lining both sides of Cypress Street and the west side of Orange Avenue between First and Chestnut Streets as well Walnut, Pine, and Chestnut Streets between Maple and Hickory Streets. The remainder of the Eastside area was divided into large parcels owned by Blee, Halladay, his elder brother, banker Daniel Halladay, and others. Maps drawn in 1898 and 1913 reveal that the neighborhood had expanded to south, with additional subdivisions along Cypress and Orange platted during this period. As a result of this pattern of development, the northwestern section of the neighborhood was improved with homes in the Victorian era Queen Anne and Eastlake styles. Colonial Revival turn-of- the-century residences and later Craftsman bungalows followed in the southwest portion of the neighborhood. The southeastern section of the neighborhood was the last portion to be subdivided and was initially developed in the 1920s, with the Craftsman, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Spanish Colonial Revival styles predominating. Post World War II construction consumed the remaining unimproved land. Despite unsympathetic infill, dating primarily to the last quarter of the twentieth century, and inappropriate alterations, the Eastside neighborhood retains numerous intact examples of residences from the significant period of its development which occurred between 1873, when Stafford built his house (no longer extant), and 1931, when construction tapered off as a result of the Great Depression. The Huff-Sleeper House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Property under Criterion 1, for its exemplification of the combination of Colonial Revival and Craftsman features that characterized early twentieth century homes, and under Criterion 4b, for its association with the prominent Huff and Sleeper families. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Key” for its distinctive architectural style and quality. Colonial Revival features include the hipped roof, Tuscan columns, and window treatments. Craftsman influences are discernable in use of exposed rafters. Character- defining exterior features of the Huff-Sleeper House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to: sheathing (clapboard); roof configuration; massing; windows and doors; and architectural details such as exposed beam ends, rafter tails, “X”-patterned muntins, and window surrounds and ornamentation. 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) Huff-Sleeper House *Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann, Peter C. Moruzzi, SAIC *Date September 19, 2002 ⌧ Continuation Update DPR 523L *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. 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