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<br /> CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br /> Page 3 of 4 Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Miller House
<br /> 'Recorded by Deborah Howe/I-Arriila 'Date February 2, 2009 ®Continuation ? Update
<br /> "B10. Significance (continued):
<br /> Santa Ana was founded by w/liam Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as
<br /> Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The cnric and commen;ia/ 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 f 889, the city grew outwarcls, 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 on;hanis dotted with widety scattered farmhouses.
<br /> The Miller House is located in Flora/ Paris, a neighbofiood 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 widety scattered
<br /> ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builderAllison 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 pun:hased a parcel of land. And that month,
<br /> he began building custom homes in Santa Ana" (Orange County Register. September 15, 1981). The panel chosen became
<br /> the Floral Paris subdivision between Seventeenth Sheet and Santiago Creek. °When built in the f 920s, the Floral Paris
<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 anhitecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s; Floral
<br /> Paris showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival 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 11, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he
<br /> had helped create, at 615 West Santa Gara Avenue.
<br /> !n the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (188f-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral
<br /> Panic. 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 Il years, Floral Park continued its development as
<br /> numerous smaller, single-family houses were built Continuing in the Floral Panic tradition, they were mostly revival in style.
<br /> !n the 1950s, low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2007), Floral Paris maintains
<br /> its identity as the premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many ati7uent and prominent citizens.
<br /> The Miller House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its exemplification
<br /> of the distinguishing characteristics of both the Modeme style (Art Modeme variant) and the Colonial Revi+ra/ style (Regency
<br /> Variant). Typical features of the Art Modeme style illustrated by the house include its asymmetrical but balanced
<br /> composition; iron bak;onet with metal balustrade, arranged in a geometric pattern; decorative horizonta! reeding uniting the
<br /> bays of the fagade; smooth stucco finish; pairs of windows grouped at buiktir?g comers; and emphasis on the horizontal.
<br /> These (eatures are combined with Colonial Revival (Regency Revival) elements, including the building massing, use of an
<br /> iron balconet forming abstract geometric pattern; wood-framed, double-hung sash windows; and iron scroll work.
<br /> Additionally, the house has been categorized as `Contributive" because it °contributes to the overall character and history" of
<br /> Santa Ana, and, as an intact example of the combination of the Art Modeme variant of the Modeme style and the Colonial
<br /> Revival style (Regency Variant) in the Floral Park neighborhood, is a good example of period architecture." Character-
<br /> defrning exterior features of the Miller House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to, materials and
<br /> finishes (stucco and metal); roof configuration and detailing; original windows where extant,• chimney,' and architectural details
<br /> such as horizontal banding and moldings; stained-glass windows and applied iron scrollworic,• and the squared bay
<br /> projections.
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