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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: (Construction data, alterations, and date of alterations) <br />August 3, 1925. Residence and garage. <br />September 13, 1938. Extend garage. <br />December 2, 1938. Garage. <br />RELATED FEATURES: (Other important features such as barns, sheds, fences, prominent or unusual trees, or landscape) <br />Detached garage. <br />Large evergreen tree on the east side of the property. <br />DESCRIPTION: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, settings, and <br />boundaries.) <br />This one-story Spanish Colonial Revival house presents a symmetrical, three-bay facade to the street. Covered in smooth white <br />stucco, the building is topped by a flat roof hidden by a parapet edged with red clay the coping. In the center fagade bay, an attached <br />porch is enclosed beneath afront-gabled roof, also covered in red clay tile. Arched openings are located on three sides of the porch <br />projection, within which the entry is also round-headed. Two tripartite window groupings on either side of the porch consist of <br />narrow casements flanking the broad fixed sash. Louvered attic vents are centered in the wall above each window grouping. <br />Complemented by its landscaping, the house is unaltered. The property also contains aone-story garage whose appearance echoes <br />that of the house, with stucco siding and roof coping of red clay tile. <br />HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS: <br />Clarence and Minerva Safley built this house in 1926. Their daughter, Mary Safley, who lived with them for several years, was a <br />teacher at McKinley School and later at Santa Ana High School. Mr. Safley died around 1948; his wife remained in the house. In the <br />1950s, Stephen and Florence Palmer purchased the house. Stephen Palmer was the Minister of Music at the First Presbyterian Church <br />and taught music at Santa Ana High School (Treasures). <br />RESOURCE ATTRIBUTES: (List attributes and codes from Appendix 4 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office <br />of Historic Preservation.) <br />HP2. Single-family Property <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />cm\historic\templates\Fourth 1541E (Safley) <br />9/27/0 I <br />25F-7 <br />