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State of California —The Resources Agency Primary # <br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # <br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial <br />Page 3 of 3 Resource Name: Arthur A. Beard House <br />*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September8, 2022 171 Continuation ❑ Update <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 selection <br />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 Arthur A. Beard 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 oranges, avocados, and walnuts 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, 1981). 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 11, 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, they were mostly revival in style. In <br />the 1950s, low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2022) Floral Park maintains its <br />identity as the premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens. <br />The Arthur A. Beard House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as an intact <br />example of the Colonial Revival variant of the Minimal Traditional style, constructed just prior to World War 11 by the <br />development team of H. C. Head and Roy Russell. Additionally, the house has been categorized as "Contributive" because it <br />contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is a representative example of Minimal Traditional style <br />architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character -defining features of the Arthur A. Beard House include, <br />but may not be limited to: materials and finishes (stucco and horizontal wood board lapped siding); side -gabled roof with <br />modest overhang; three -bay, nearly symmetrical fagade; multi -paned, double -hung windows including cant window bay, <br />central main entry with stylized pediment; decorative shutters; and brick chimney. <br />*1372. References (continued): <br />Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestrycom Operations Inc, 2000. <br />Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. <br />Harris, Cyril M. 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