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HRCA No. 2021-20, HRC 2021-20, HPPA No. 2021-20 – Head-Wimpey House November 4, 2021 Page 2 1 8 0 8 designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria 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 86 years old and is a good example of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property. The Head-Wimpey House is architecturally significant as a characteristic example of the Tudor Revival style. This house was originally constructed in 1935, and was valued at approximately $4,000 according to the original building permit. It was built by Horace Caldwell Head, son of Dr. and Captain William Head who was a member of the California Assembly and a surgeon. Dr. Head was said to have personally delivered the bill to Sacramento to allow Orange County to succeed from Los Angeles County. He fought in the American Civil War on the Confederate side and was Grand Cyclops to the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee. He was a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and was the attorney of the Orange County Flood Control District, and later, was District Attorney for the County of Orange from 1904 to 1908. He served as President of the Orange County Bar Association from 1915 to 1920. The Head-Wimpey House was first sold to Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Wimpey in 1936. The Head-Wimpey House is a one-story single-family residential building constructed in the Tudor Revival style. Asymmetrical in design, the house exhibits a complex gable and wing roof with a moderately steep pitch, clad in composition shingle roofing. The massing, roof configuration, and fenestration define a three-bay façade, with an overlapping gable front porch and entrance stoop flanked by a side-gabled projecting wing on the south, a side-gabled projecting wing on the north and a prominent front- facing gable along the west elevation. The exterior of the building is clad in hand- troweled textured stucco. The entryway is characterized by a wooden front door, accessed via the entrance stoop. Fenestration consists of multi-paned and fixed casement windows used on the west elevation, while double-hung windows are used along the north, south, and east elevations. The property is simply landscaped with a mature tree, a lawn, low vegetation and simple walkway that connects the entry stoop to the main sidewalk. The driveway is located along the south elevation and leads to the detached, one-story, two-car garage, also clad in sandy-textured stucco. Character- defining features of the house include a complex gable and wing roof of moderately steep pitch; shallow roof overhangs, roof detailing such as wooden bargeboards and exposed rafter tails; multi-paned wood casement windows used on the primary Historic Resources Commission 2 –2 11/4/2021