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<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Page 3 of 3 Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Martz House
<br />*Recorded by Leslie J. Heumann and Deborah Howell-Ardila *Date November 7, 2007 0 Continuation ^ Update
<br />*B10. 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 to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with
<br />cultivated fields and orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
<br />The Martz House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West Seventeenth
<br />Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados and walnuts, and widely scattered
<br />ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981), credited as the
<br />subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in 1922
<br />(Talbert, pages 353-356). `Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
<br />he began building custom homes in Santa Ana" (Orange County Register. September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
<br />the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. "When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park
<br />homes were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each" (Orange County Register.
<br />September 15, 1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s; Floral
<br />Park showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Reviva! styles. The Allison
<br />Honer Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco-styled Old Santa Ana City
<br />Hall, the E! Toro Marine Base during World War ll, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he
<br />had helped create, of 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 the early post-World War ll years, Floral Park continued its development as
<br />numerous smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style.
<br />In the 1950s, low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2007), Floral Park maintains
<br />its identity as the premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
<br />The Martz House qualif<es for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its exemplification
<br />of the distinguishing characteristics of the Tudor Revival style. Typical features of this style illustrated by the house include
<br />its asymmetrical and picturesque composition; decorative half-timbering; vertical emphasis keynoted by the steeply pitched,
<br />multi-gabled and hipped roof,' and variety of mult-flight casement windows. Additionally, the house has been categorized as
<br />`Key" because it `has a distinctive architectural style and quality" as an example of the Tudor Revival style. Character-
<br />defining exterior features of the Martz House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and
<br />finishes (stucco and wood); roof configuration and detailing; entry porch; original windows and doors where extant; attached
<br />chimney; architectural details such as the decorative half-timbering, turned spindlework, and corbels marking the gable apex.
<br />B12. References (continued):
<br />Armor, Samuel. History of Orange Countv. Los Angeles: History Record Company, 1921
<br />California Death Index, 1940 - 2000.
<br />Franklin, Don. IVW Santa Ana History: Roy Russell & Son, Builders." Unsourced article from the Santa Ana History Room,
<br />Historic House File, circa 1995.
<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 />Orange County Tax Assessor Records, Book 397, vol. 1, 1929 - 1932, Tract 813, p. 63; Book 390, vol. 1, 1925 - 1928, Tract
<br />813, p. 139.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1927-1962.
<br />Whitten, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
<br />`Alison Honer Dies at 84,"The Santa Ana Journal. September 21, 1981.
<br />`Builder of Honer Plaza Dies," Orange Countv Register. September 15, 1981.
<br />`History of Floral Park." hftp://www.floral-park.com/page2.html.
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