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<br />State of California - The Resources Agency Primary # <br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# <br /> <br />BUilDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD <br /> <br />Page -L of ~ *NRHP Status Code 1 D <br />*Resource Name or #: Claycomb House <br /> <br />81. Historic Name: Claycomb House <br />82. Common Name: Same <br />83. Original Use: Single-family Residence 84. Present Use: Single-family Residence <br />*85. Architectural Style: Prairie School, Colonial Revival <br />*86. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): Constructed in 1907. <br />November 25, 1929. Relocate. February 3, 1930. Private garage. <br />April 18, 1933. Rebuild chimneys. February 21, 1938. Reroof <br />February 25, 1938. Sleeping rooms, addition to residence. February 4, 1947. Reroof <br />July 7, 1998. Demo of interior parlition walls. December 4, 1998. New 2-car detached garage. <br />March 19, 1999. Replace drywall as needed. April 26, 1999. Bolt joists together. <br />March 19,2001. Clad existing concrete stairs with historically appropriate siding. <br /> <br />*87. Moved? DNo .Yes DUnknown Date: <br />*88. Related Features: <br /> <br />1929 <br /> <br />Original Location: Seventeenth Street <br /> <br />Mature evergreen tree in front yard; pecan and camphor trees in rear yard. <br /> <br />89a. Architect: Unknown b. 8uilder: Unknown <br />*810. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana <br />Period of Significance: circa 1880-1946 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: 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 Claycomb House is significant as a contributor to the French Park Historic District and is architecturally distinctive as a <br />remarkably intact and characteristic example of the American Foursquare genre, a popular building type in the years <br />immediately preceding and following the turn of the twentieth century. It was built in 1906 on Seventeenth Street and moved <br />to this location in 1929 by William White, the owner of this lot and the adjacent house (1102 Norlh Spurgeon Street, now <br />demolished). Mrs. Mary Claycomb, widow of a local physician, was the first occupant following the relocation. Around 1963 <br />Mrs. Rokkum converled the building into a boarding house, which operated unti/1989, when the properly was purchased by <br />the City and boarded up. Paul Giles and Louise Pass restored the house, including the removal of texture coating and non- <br />original shutters from the exterior, in 1999-2000. <br /> <br />Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on parl of the Spanish land grant known as <br />Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. In 1877 Spurgeon, along with James McFadden and James Fruit, formed the Western <br />Development Company with the intention of bringing the Southern Pacific Railroad from its then terminus in Anaheim into <br /> <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) <br /> <br />811. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) <br />*812. References: <br /> <br />Sketch Map <br /> <br />Claycomb House <br />1106 N. Spurgeon <br /> <br />City of Santa Ana Building Permits <br />Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library <br />Sanborn Maps <br /> <br />(This space reserved for official comments.) <br /> <br /> <br />, <br />i <br />l <br /> <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.) <br />813. Remarks: <br /> <br />*814. Evaluator: Leslie J. Heumann <br /> <br />"'RENCH \" r. T <br />~ _ ,'.,., l.~-! ~ I"'; I .. I <br /> <br />5T/lEET I.., <br />"'r"'---r""'l .. <br /> <br />*Date of Evaluation: December 5, 2001 <br /> <br />DPR 5238 (1/95) <br /> <br />25S~9 <br /> <br />*Required information <br /> <br />