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<br />Page 3_ of 3_ Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Evans House
<br />*Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell -Ardila *Date January 26, 2007 x Continuation o Update
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<br />*P3a. Description (continued):
<br />proportioned tripartite windows banded by diamond -paned transoms are located in the side bays. The central entry features
<br />three, small, rectangular lights arranged in an ascending pattern. Windows on the side elevations are primarily double-hung
<br />sash in type. All of the openings are topped by extended lintels. A picket fence encloses the property, which also contains a
<br />front-gabled garage in the rear. The house is substantially unaltered.
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<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 around the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and orchards
<br />dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
<br />The Evans House is located in the Pico-Lowell neighborhood, which lies southwest of downtown Santa Ana and the Civic
<br />Center. Taking its name from two local elementary schools, the neighborhood is bound by West First Street on the north,
<br />West McFadden Avenue on the south, South Flower Street on the east and South Bristol Street on the west. In common with
<br />other areas not immediately adjacent to the historic core, Pico-Lowell saw a persistence of agricultural uses into the twentieth
<br />century. By 1912, when plat maps were drawn of Orange County, a little more than half of the neighborhood, primarily the
<br />eastern section, had been subdivided into residential-sized lots, with the remainder consolidated into ten large parcels. The
<br />city directories indicate that over one hundred homes had been constructed by this time. Home building continued to thrive
<br />during the 1910s and 1920s, tapering off by the end of the decade. As a result, the oldest homes in the neighborhood are
<br />small to medium sized bungalows, most representative of the Craftsman style of architecture. Those sections of the
<br />neighborhood that remained unimproved were developed in the post-war housing boom of the late 1940s and 1950s, when
<br />hundreds of modest California Ranch style homes were constructed. Today (2007), the neighborhood is densely populated,
<br />and its ethnicity has shifted from Anglo-European to Hispanic.
<br />The Evans House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its
<br />exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. As an example o f a symmetrical,
<br />flat-roofed bungalow, the house displays the flat front with attached porch, parapeted roofline, stucco and tile materials
<br />palette, and casement windows usually associated with this variation of the style. Additionally, the house has been
<br />categorized as “Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of Santa Ana, and, as an intact
<br />example of a symmetrical, flat-roofed Spanish Colonial Revival bungalow in the Pico-Lowell neighborhood, “is a good
<br />example of period architecture.” Character-defining exterior features of the Evans House that should be preserved include,
<br />but may not be limited to, materials and finishes (stucco, tile); roof configuration and detailing; massing; original windows and
<br />doors and their surrounds where extant; porch; chimney; and architectural details such as the parapet, diamond-shaped
<br />embellishments, and porch archway.
<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 />Orange County Plat Maps, 1912.
<br />Thomas Brothers Maps of Orange County, 1957 and 1964.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1912 -1947.
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