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<br />*Recorded by Pedro Gomez
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
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<br />tEATION HRI#
<br />Trinomial
<br />Resource Name: CampbellJe
<br />*Date May 5,
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<br />The Campbell -Jeffrey House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
<br />Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of orange, avocado, and walnut trees and
<br />widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981),
<br />credited as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls,
<br />New York in 1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). "Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land.
<br />And that month, he began building custom homes in Santa Ana" (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel
<br />chosen became the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. "When built in the 1920s, the
<br />Floral Park homes were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each" (Orange County
<br />Register, September 15, 1961). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and
<br />1930s and Floral Park showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival.
<br />The Allison Honer Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa
<br />Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine Base during World War Y, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the
<br />neighborhood he had helped to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
<br />In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral
<br />Park. An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa
<br />Clara Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell's own large, Colonial
<br />Revival mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War 11 years, Floral Park continued its development as
<br />numerous, smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, homes in the neighborhood were
<br />mostly developed in the revival style. In the 1950s, low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park.
<br />Today (2022) Floral Park maintains its identity as the premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent
<br />and prominent citizens.
<br />The Campbell -Jeffrey House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as a
<br />representative and intact example of a Tudor Revival home. Additionally, the house has been categorized as "Contributive"
<br />because it "contributes to the overall character and history" of the Floral Park neighborhood and "is a good example of period
<br />architecture," representing the Tudor Revival style in Santa Ana (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character -
<br />defining features of the house include its massing and composition; fairly steeply pitched roof incorporating a side -gabled
<br />body with a projecting front gable; stucco exterior enlivened by decorative half-timbering; multi -light casement windows;
<br />original entry; and tall chimney.
<br />*1312. References (continued):
<br />Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, New York, WW Norton, 1998.
<br />Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated Historv. 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 />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-2017.
<br />Ancestrycom
<br />Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
<br />Historic Maps, Santa Ana History Room, 1912, 1923, 1932, and 1955.
<br />DPR 523L
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