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<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Paas 3 of 3 Resource Name: Rnse House
<br />*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date December 18, 2017 ❑O Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<br />Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as
<br />Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of
<br />Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1886, and
<br />selection as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods
<br />developing to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with
<br />cultivated fields and orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
<br />The Rose House is located in French Park, a neighborhood northeast of downtown Santa Ana bounded by Bush Street,
<br />Washington Street, Garfield Street, and Civic Center Drive. Beginning in the 1880s and continuing well into the twentieth
<br />century, the area around the park began to be developed with many of the finest homes in Santa Ana. Examples of Victorian
<br />era, turn of the century, and Craftsman homes were built along the tree -lined streets. By the 1920s, most streets in the
<br />neighborhood were fully developed, although a few revival styled single family homes and duplexes were built during the
<br />1920s, and a handful of apartments constructed in the 1930s. From the nineteenth century onwards, residents were a
<br />"Who's Who" of early Santa Ana, and included bankers, attorneys, doctors, businessmen, ranchers, teachers and others
<br />active in the civic and social life of the city.
<br />Once known as the "Nob Hill" of Santa Ana, French Park declined in the 1940s and 1950s as some homes were converted
<br />into rooming houses and others were allowed to deteriorate. In the 1960s and 1970s some houses were demolished and the
<br />properties redeveloped with multi -family housing. However, a grass roots preservation effort begun in the late 1970s led to
<br />the establishment of a local historic district in 1984 and the listing of the neighborhood in the National Register of Historic
<br />Places in 1999.
<br />The Rose House, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as a contributor to the French Park
<br />Historic District and is listed in the California Register of Historical Resources, qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register
<br />of Historical Properties under mulitiple criteria: Criterion 1, for its exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the
<br />Craftsman/Bungalow style; Criterion 2, as a work from notable architect, Frederick Eley, whose work influenced architectural
<br />development in Santa Ana and Orange County, and Criterion 4, for its contribution to the historic French Park
<br />neighborhood. Additionally, the house has been categorized as "Key" for its "distinctive architectural style and quality,"
<br />embodying the massing, materials, and detailing of Craftsman design; for its `association with a significant period in the
<br />history of the city" namely the development of French Park as the premier residential district of the late nineteenth and early
<br />twentieth centuries in Santa Ana; and "association with a significant person" and notable architect, Frederick Eley.
<br />Character -defining features of the Rose House include (but may not be limited to): low-pitched side -facing gabled roof with
<br />wide eaves; exposed structural elements such as beams and rafter tails; triangular knee braces; vertical boards with vertical
<br />cutouts ending in circles and adding a Swiss touch to the peaks of the gables; wood shingles covering the second floor
<br />facade; ribbons of casement windows; six -over -one double -hung windows; single -storied entry porch featuring pairs of
<br />exposed beam ends and wide eaves with exposed rafter tails; pairs of wood columns, with slant -cut beams at the top and
<br />which support the porch roof, north porch; and south bay window.
<br />*B12. References (continued):
<br />Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
<br />Marsh, Diann, Santa Ana, An Illustrated Histo y. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
<br />McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
<br />National Register Bulletin 16A. "How to Complete the National Register Registration Form. " Washington DC: National
<br />Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
<br />Office of Historic Preservation. "Instructions for Recording Historical Resources." Sacramento: March 1995,
<br />Whitten, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1920-1979.
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