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State of California -The Resources Agency Primary # <br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# <br />BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD <br />Page 2 of 6 <br />*Resource Name or #: R. Miller House <br />*NRHP Status Code 5S3 <br />131. Historic Name: R. Miller House <br />B2. Common Name: Same <br />B3. Original Use: Single -Family Residence B4. Present Use: Single -Family Residence <br />*135. Architectural Style: Tudor Revival <br />*136. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): <br />1932. Construct residence and garage. $4, 000. <br />1939. Build new chimney. $145. <br />1942. Build recreation room. $275. <br />1978. Addition to garage. $2500. <br />2017. Replace in -kind composition shingle roofing. No valuation indicated. <br />2025. Replace concrete driveway and walkway. No valuation indicated. <br />*137. Moved? ■No ❑Yes ❑Unknown Date: Original location: <br />*138. Related Features: Detached garage <br />B9a. Architect: Unknown <br />b. Builder: A.H. McClary/JasperFarney <br />*1310. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana <br />Period of Significance: 1932 Property Type: Single -Family Residential Applicable Criteria: C13 <br />(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity) <br />The R. Miller House is architecturally significant as an intact example of a Tudor Revival -style house in Santa Ana. The <br />original building permit is dated March 9, 1932, and indicates the residence and garage were constructed by A.H. McClary for <br />$4,000. The original permit did not include the original owner; however, a 1932 The Register article listed A.H. McClary as the <br />owner of the property and Jasper Farney as the contractor (The Register 1932). Available evidence did not confirm McClary <br />lived on the property. Farney was a contractor and real estate investor from the 1920s to the 1950s. He started as part of <br />Honer, Herzig and Farney during the 1920s to 1930s but formed his own company in the 1940s to 1950s (The Register <br />1928a, Ancestry.com 2017). Farney designed and constructed single-family residences in the Tudor Revival style such as <br />1210 South Van Ness Avenue and 1137 South Garnsey Street (The Register 1928b). <br />The first confirmed owner occupants of the property were Robert A. and Eda Miller and their son Ronald. The miller family <br />lived at the property from circa 1935 to circa 1956 (Press -Telegram 1935, Ancestry. com 2011). The first confirmed owner <br />occupant was Robert In 1939, a second permit indicates owner, Robert Miller, hired contactor, William Rohrbacher, to <br />construct a new chimney for $145. Born in 1904 in Illinois, Miller was a real estate agent in Orange County from the 1940s <br />into the 1960s (Ancestry.com 2022, The Register 1945, 1965). Eda Miller was born in 1906 in Sweden (Ancestry.com 2022). <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3) <br />B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes) None <br />*1312. References: <br />(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 6.) <br />B13. Remarks: None <br />*1314. Evaluator: Ashley Losco, City of Santa Ana. <br />*Date of Evaluation: September 23, 2025 <br />(This space reserved for official comments.) <br />Sketch Map <br />R. Miller House <br />1412 North Louise Street <br />- <br />uasv <br />ssso• <br />ti <br />c <br />-a� <br />Cn <br />m <br />m <br />DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information <br />