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<br />Page 3_ of 4_Resource Name: LeRoy House
<br />*Recorded by Andrea Dumovich Heywood *Date November 3, 2022 Continuation Update
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<br />*P3a. Description (continued):
<br />The prominent stone chimney at the south elevation features the characteristic Tudor Revival height and extends to the
<br />exterior foundation; walls to either side are also of stone construction. A covered patio extends outward from the rear (west)
<br />façade. Other notable features include wooden vents at gable ends, awnings, and wood shutters. The property is landscaped
<br />with a mature tree, a lawn, manicured low shrubs, and a curved, brick-paved walkway that leads from the driveway to the
<br />main entrance, also brick-paved. A driveway parallels the south elevation and leads to the detached, one-story, two-car
<br />garage, which is setback behind a wood double gate. The stucco-covered garage is capped by a hipped roof clad in
<br />composition shingles. The garage’s north façade features two pedestrian doors situated below shingle-clad shed roof hoods.
<br />Its windows match those on the main residence, with a single steel-framed casement window on the north façade and two
<br />steel-frame multi-paned casement and fixed windows on the rear (west) elevation. A low wall made of the same fieldstone as
<br />the residence is just north of the garage in the backyard. Minor alterations to the property include a small area of glass block
<br />wall on a side elevation.
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<br />The LeRoy Quick 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, 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 II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the
<br />neighborhood he had helped to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
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<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 II 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 LeRoy Quick House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as a very
<br />intact and highly individual example of the late Tudor Revival style in Santa Ana, keynoted by partial stone construction. The
<br />recommended categorization is “Landmark” because it has unique architectural significance as an example of the post-World
<br />War II Tudor Revival style with partial stone construction in Floral Park and Santa Ana (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section
<br />30-2.2). In addition to the partial stone construction, the house also showcases the asymmetrical massing, vertical emphasis
<br />of roof and chimney, and storybook quality of fenestration that typify the Tudor Revival. Character-defining features of the
<br />house include its steeply pitched, cross-gabled and hipped roof; minimal overhanging eaves; a prominent front-gabled entry
<br />bay; fieldstone walls which extend along the entire primary (east) façade of the building to either side of the chimney on the
<br />south elevation; stucco, lapboard, and vertical siding; a prominent stone chimney; fenestration that includes, multi-paned and
<br />diamond-paned, casement and picture windows with steel frames; a recessed primary entrance; vents at gable ends; shed
<br />roofs over secondary entries; wood shutters; and a fieldstone wall in the backyard.
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<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 History. 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 />Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-2017.
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