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HRCA No. 2022-27, HRC 2022-17, HPPA No. 2022-24 – Grover Collins House January 19, 2023 Page 2 3 1 5 3 set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old. The structure identified meets the minimum selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as the structure is 66 years old and is a good example of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property. The Grover Collins House is architecturally significant as a representative example of a highly intact Ranch style tract home in Santa Ana, owned and constructed by prolific Santa Ana developer Roy Russell. According to City building records, it was built in 1957 for approximately $17,000. City directories indicate by 1960, the house was sold to Grover G Collins, who lived on the property until circa 1975 (when records discontinued listing the homeowner). City directory records indicate that Donald McNealy owned the home in 2000 and in 2008 it was owned by Dexter Whitfield. The Grover Collins House is a one-story, single-family Ranch Style residence with detached garage. Asymmetrical in design, the house exhibits a horizontal emphasis expressed through a low-pitched, complex hipped roof with broad, overhanging eaves and exposed rafters. The exterior of the house is clad primarily in a combination of stucco, brick, and distinctive board and batten siding. The primary (south) façade contains five architectural bays, with two window bays on either side of the central main entrance bay, which is located within the front porch. The four window bays along the primary façade are steel-frame, multi-lite casement windows. The western-most window is a corner window that projects on brackets outward from the façade and wraps around the building’s southwest corner. Two identical windows are situated east of the main entrance, with a smaller window to the west of the main entrance. Wooden shutters with scalloped detailing outfit the three windows along the primary façade. The front porch is characterized by a low brick wall that wraps around the west half of the primary façade, and single wood post that supports the partial width front porch. The entry features an X- paneled and partially glazed front door beneath a wood lap-clad porch ceiling. Brick siding extends east of the entry porch, below the identical steel-frame windows. Steel-frame, multi-lite casements and single or double-hung wood windows appear on both east and west side facades. Fenestration along the rear façade includes two large wood-frame multi-lite fixed windows flanked by single or double-hung wood windows, and an aluminum-frame sliding glass door window that is situated within a rear covered patio. An interior brick chimney rises above the roofline near the building’s west façade. A detached garage is located at the northwest corner of the parcel. The property is landscaped with a lawn, low vegetation, a brick-clad pathway located in the middle of the Historic Resources Commission 18 1/19/2023