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State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 3_ of 6_Resource Name: Mills House *Recorded by Andrea Dumovich Heywood *Date March 6, 2025  Continuation  Update DPR 523L *P3a. Description (continued): Secondary façades on the north, south, and east, including the rear addition completed circa 2012, are consistent with the general characteristics of the front-facing west façade, including multi-pane hung, fixed, and casement windows of both wood and vinyl sashes; glazed wood doors; and clay ornamental features, specifically false canales (Figure 5). A non-historic stuccoed privacy wall along the north property line wall encloses the side and back yards. On the north elevation, near the front of the residence, is the stuccoed chimney, featuring a molded stucco triangle feature (Figure 6). Facing the side yard is one of three secondary entrances, which features a small porch, ten-light French doors, and historic wood hung windows with six-light upper and single-pane lower sashes (Figure 7). The porch, which occupies a recess in the north elevation is sheltered by exposed beams emanating from the exterior wall. The other entrances are located on the east elevation of the original rear of the residence and north elevation of the addition and feature glazed wood doors. Both entrances area accessed by short sets of steps with roughly identical stuccoed curved balustrades topped with tile coping (Figure 8). Windows on the historic sections of the secondary elevations are uniformly wood-sash units, with configurations that include multi-light fixed, hung with multi-light upper and fixed lower sashes, and multi-light casements. Windows throughout the rear addition feature vinyl sashes and are configured to complement the historic character of the house with vertically sliding operability, multi-pane sashes, and elements suggesting ogee lugs. Situated at the far eastern end of the parcel, the detached garage was constructed in 2012 to complement the historic appearance of the property (Figure 9). It is rectangular in plan, sheathed in stucco, and capped with a flat roof concealed by a minimally shaped parapet with tile coping. The roll-up garage door faces a short driveway to the north, accessing Edgewood Road. The property is landscaped with a front lawn, low shrubs, mature ornamental trees, and various flowering plants. *B10. Significance (continued): The Mills House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Park on the north, East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west, and the I- 5 freeway on the southwest. In large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up Main Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way mirrored the freeway route. This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s. As of 1905, the city directories listed around twenty households on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, “C Street” (now North Santiago Street), North Bush Street and North Main Avenue, the only streets in the area at the time. The vast majority of the residents were ranchers. By 1911, the number of households had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Road and Valencia Street had been partially laid out, but most residents continued to list “rancher” or “fruit grower” as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of land use was evident on the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north of Santa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with the remaining area divided into larger, agricultural parcels held by approximately forty landowners. While the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets west of Santiago had been laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be the most prevalent occupation in the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service professions such as painters, electricians, and carpenters made their homes in the western half of the neighborhood during the 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted several city and county officials, including the City Attorney (Z. B. West, Jr., 321 East Santa Clara Avenue), County Supervisor, First District (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2407 North Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By April 1942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been improved with single- family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent development of the eastern half of the neighborhood and infill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style that emerged following World War II. The Mills House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as an intact example of a Spanish Colonial Revival-style home in Santa Ana. Located in Park Santiago, the house was constructed in 1925. The recommended categorization is “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of its neighborhood and is a good example of period architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.3). Character-defining features of the Spanish Colonial Revival style exhibited by the house include, but are not necessarily limited to, its asymmetrical wing-and- gable composition; clay-barrel-tile roofing; portico with pyramidal and arched openings; front patio with low, stuccoed privacy wall; side porch (north façade) with extended-beam shelter; wood-sash windows in various configurations; recessed, segmental-arch window surrounds on the primary façade; ornamental details including the clay gable vent, oeil de boeuf, Historic Resources Commission 109 7/9/2025