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<br />e <br /> <br />State of California - The Resources Agency Primary # <br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# <br />BUilDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD <br /> <br />Page ---L of L *NRHP Status Code 5S1 <br />*Resource Name or #: Joe Lowell House <br /> <br />B1. Historic Name: Joe Lowell House <br />B2. Common Name: Same <br />B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence <br />*85. Architectural Style: Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Pueblo Revival <br />*86. Construction History: (Construction 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).. <br /> <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) <br />*87. Moved? _No DYes DUnknown Date: <br />*88. Related Features: <br /> <br />Original Location: <br /> <br />Garage, mature evergreen tree in north lawn. <br /> <br />B9a. Architect: Unknown <br /> <br />b. Builder: Unknown <br /> <br />*810. 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 architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity) <br /> <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 significant investment 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 returned in 1912, settling 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. <br /> <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) <br /> <br />B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) <br />*812. References: <br /> <br />City of Santa Ana Building Permits <br />Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library <br />Sanborn Maps <br /> <br />Sketch Map <br /> <br />.ii TDtTH <br /> <br />r <br /> <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) <br /> <br />(This space reserved for official comments.) <br /> <br /> <br />i <br />.. <br /> <br /> <br />i <br />.. <br /> <br /> <br />@ <br />@ <br />@ <br /> <br />, TRACT' <br />. <br /> <br />B13. Remarks: <br /> <br />*814. Evaluator: Leslie J. Heumann <br /> <br />*Date of Evaluation: August 29,2003 <br /> <br />0., @ <br />@.n. @ <br /> <br />Joe Lowell House <br />924 North Lowell Street <br /> <br />Page 4 of 5 <br /> <br />DPR 5238 (1/95) <br /> <br />55A-8 <br /> <br />*Required information <br />