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Year Built: <br />Alterations: <br />Repair Chimney: <br />Addition to Residence: <br />Reroof: <br />Convert Residence to duplex: <br />Add two french doors: <br />Reroof: <br />(Construction data, alterations, and date of alterations) <br />1904 <br />June, 1923 <br />September 7, 1933 <br />July 25, 1938 <br />October 1, 1951 <br />August 26, 1955 <br />August 9, 1991 <br />March 25, 1996 <br />RELATED FEATURES: (Other important features such as barns, sheds, fences, prominent or unusual trees, or landscape) <br />None identified <br />DESCRIPTION: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, settings, and <br />boundaries.) <br />Prominent bellcast hip -roofed dormers, accented with three multipaned arched windows, are centered in the front (west), north, and <br />south sides of the hipped roof of the Clarence Crookshank House. Carved brackets accent the main roof, dormers, and porch roof. <br />Narrow clapboard siding covers the exterior. Paired wood columns resting on solid clapboard railings support a single -storied porch, <br />topped with a mansard roof. Most of the windows are double -hung, with a leaded glass window placed next to the front door. The <br />high quality Craftsman style front door features a trio of long, narrow vertical beveled glass panels topped with three squares of <br />beveled glass. A single storied wing on the south side features a large plate glass window with a leaded glass transom and a slanted <br />bay on the south end. With the exception of the concrete front steps and possibly the single storied wing, this Colonial Revival home <br />does not appear to have been altered. <br />HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS: <br />Clarence Crookshank built this house for his bride, Anna L. Martin, in 1904. Clarence worked for his father Miles, first at the <br />Crookshank and Beatty Dry Goods Store, and later as a cashier in the First National Bank. He later become president of the Santa <br />Ana Building and Loan Company. He was active in several local civic organizations. His wife Anna died in 1912 and Clarence <br />remarried around 1916 to Janet T. Brown. They lived at this house until 1924, when they moved out to the county to Lemon Heights, <br />RESOURCE ATTRIBUTES: (List attributes and codes from Appendix 4 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office <br />of Historic Preservation) <br />(HP2) Single family property <br />Ll\HRC\category crookshank <br />542-00 <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />25A-48 <br />