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<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Page 3 of 5 Resource Name: Dixon-Heemstra House
<br />'Recorded by Andrea Dumovich Heywood *Date May 8, 2024❑x Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*133a. Description (continued):
<br />Fenestration on the side (west) fagade consists of several double -hung wood windows of various size, along with a small
<br />casement window (Figure 5). The side (east) fagade consists of double -hung windows with a multi -light pattern on the upper
<br />light as well as those without any divided lights, and one multi -light glazed door. The rear (south) fagade includes double -
<br />hung wood windows in a group of three and one single window are located at the rear fagade, along with a single casement
<br />window. Window framing throughout the building is made of wide framing with an emphasized sill and header. The main
<br />entrance door also consists of the same framing to match.
<br />The rear (south) fagade is made of the primary gable roof and a smaller gable roof at the southeast corner of the building.
<br />The smaller gable roof houses the 2019 laundry room addition to kitchen (Figure 6). The addition's siding material is slightly
<br />differentiated from the original siding to indicate it is a later addition.
<br />The detached garage is situated to the southeast of the main residence. The front -gabled garage has an off -centered
<br />vehicular double -door that slides open (Figure 7). Siding is designed to match the main residence along with extended eaves
<br />and exposed rafter tails. No windows are present except for a rear opening that has since been infilled.
<br />Additional architectural features include front entrance concrete pathway and concrete porch deck and a Hollywood driveway
<br />which has been modified from grass to gravel at its center. Metal window awnings have been added to a few west-fagade
<br />windows as a later addition. The property is landscaped with a front lawn, small shrubs, and a few medium-sized trees.
<br />*1310. Significance (continued):
<br />C.R. McCaslin occupied the property for one year in 1932. During the years 1933 and 1934, F.H. Albrecht is listed as the
<br />occupant, and then L.G. Holman is the known occupant from 1935 to 1937. From 1938 to 1939, C.H. Dale is the occupant.
<br />The property is listed as vacant in 1940. In 1941, both R.L. Fleming and H.R. McGuire are noted as building occupants. From
<br />1944 to 1950 Mrs. Jessie Wild occupied the property. City directories were not available from 1957 to 1959, in 1962, and
<br />between 1966 and 1978. From 1979 to 1995, R.S. Fink occupied the property, and from 1999 to 2008, Stephen Loft owned
<br />the property. No additional information was uncovered regarding the previously noted owners and occupants. The current
<br />owners Jill Brumett and Mona Konstan purchased the property in 2019.
<br />The Dixon-Heemstra 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 ll, 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 1937, Roy Rodney Russell, joined his father's firm and by 1945 it was renamed as
<br />Roy Russell and Son. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous, smaller,
<br />single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s, low,
<br />horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2023) Floral Park maintains its identity as the
<br />premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
<br />The Dixon-Heemstra House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as an
<br />intact example of a Craftsman style home in Santa Ana. Located in Floral Park, the house cost $4,000 to build in 1923. The
<br />recommended categorization is "Key" because it has a distinctive architectural style and quality reflective of the Craftsman
<br />style (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character -defining features of the Dixon-Heemstra House include, but
<br />may not be limited to: L-shaped plan; asymmetrical primary fagade; low -pitch roof with overhanging eaves and exposed
<br />rafter tails: Iona side -cabled porch roof that intersects two front aables at the primary facade: narrow horizontal wood panel
<br />siding; the porch's exposed beams at the gable's end and three porch support columns; primary entrance composed of a
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