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<br />Page 3 of 3 Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Miller -Taylor House
<br />*Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell-Ardila *Date December 1, 2006 ❑x Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*1310. 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 Miller -Taylor House is located in north Santa Ana, in the Morrison/Eldridge Park neighborhood. An irregularly shaped
<br />area straddling North Flower Street, Morrison/Eldridge Park is bounded by the Garden Grove (22) and the Santa Ana (5)
<br />freeways on the north and east, Sharon Road and Memory Lane on the south, and North Bristol Street on the west. With the
<br />primary exception of the 2600 block of North Flower Street, this area remained unsubdivided and presumably agricultural
<br />through World War ll. According to the city directories and early maps, North Flower ended at Seventeenth Street until
<br />around 1915, when six homes were noted north of Seventeenth, including three north of Santiago Creek. By 1920, there
<br />were nine homes, including one (2610, later numbered 2620), in what would become the Morrison/Eldridge Park
<br />neighborhood. Construction of three additional homes on the 2600 block occurred between 1925 and 1930. Beginning with
<br />a handful of homes constructed on newly laid out streets in the first few years of the 1950s, the area exploded in the mid
<br />1950s with the building of tracts of homes in the California Ranch style. Home building in the neighborhood tapered off in the
<br />1960s and ended around 1972.
<br />The Miller -Taylor 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 Craftsman style. Typical Craftsman features illustrated by the
<br />house include its cross -gabled roof configuration; decorative use of exposed structural and functional elements such as
<br />beams, rafters, and vents; and incorporation of a deep front porch and a dormer into the design. Additionally, the house has
<br />been categorized as "Key" because it "has a distinctive architectural style and quality" as an example of the Craftsman
<br />bungalow. Character -defining exterior features of the Miller -Taylor House that should be preserved include, but may not be
<br />limited to, materials and finishes (clapboard, shingles); roof configuration and detailing; massing; original windows and doors
<br />and their surrounds where extant; porch configuration and detailing, entry; and architectural details such as beams, rafters
<br />and bargeboards with shaped tails, porch posts, and vents.
<br />*1312. 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, 1964, and 1969.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-1962.
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