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<br />State of California - The Resources Agency Primary #
<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HR.#
<br />BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
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<br />'NRHP Status Code 5S1
<br />'Resource Name or #: Joe Lowell House
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<br />B1. Historic Name: Joe Lowell House
<br />B2. Common Name: Same
<br />B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence 64, Present Use: Single-family Residence
<br />'85. Architectural Style: Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Pueblo Revival
<br />'86. Construction History: (Construclion date. alterations. and date of alterations): Constructed in 1924,
<br />March 1924, Residence and garage,
<br />August 11, 1941, Reroof ($100),
<br />May 29, 1944, Reroof ($165),
<br />March 9,1950, Reroof ($98),
<br />July 16, 1951, Reroof ($68)..
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<br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3,)
<br />'B7. Moved? .No DYes DUnknown
<br />'B8. Related Features:
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<br />Date:
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<br />Original Location:
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<br />Garage, mature evergreen tree in north lawn,
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<br />B9a, Architect:
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<br />Unknown
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<br />b, Builder: Unknown
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<br />'B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
<br />Period of Significance: circa 1888-1953 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: A. C
<br />(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architecturai context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope, Also address integrity)
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<br />The Joe Lowell House is architecturally significant as an unusual example of the Spanish Colonial Revival that has been
<br />influenced by the Pueblo Revival style, It is historically significant as the home of the subdivider of Lowell Street, Joe Lowell,
<br />who built this house in 1924 at a cost of $15,000, a significantinvestment for the time, Described by historian Samuel Armor
<br />as an "industrious, successful man of comfortable affluence," Joe Lowell was also a rancher, He was born in Sacramento in
<br />1872 and came to Santa Ana initially in 1903, left to work on a ranch in Texas, and retumed in 1912. seming on his father-in-
<br />law's fourteen and a half acre ranch and raising Valencia oranges and walnuts, It is assumed that he died in the mid 1940s,
<br />when his wife, Mabel Townsend Lowell, moved to 926 North Olive Street.
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<br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
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<br />B11, Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
<br />'812. References:
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<br />City of Santa Ana Building Permits
<br />Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
<br />Sanbom Maps
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<br />Sketch Map
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<br />(This space reserved for official comments,)
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<br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
<br />B13, Remarks:
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<br />'814. Evaluator: Leslie J, Heumann
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<br />'Date of Evaluation: August 29, 2003
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<br />DPR 5238 (1/95)
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<br />75A-14
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<br />.Required infonmation
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