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HRCA No. 2024-10, HRC No. 2025-07, and HPPA No. 2025-09 — The R. Miller House (1412 N. Louise Street) September 23, 2025 Page 2 Analysis of the Issues Historical Listing In March 1999, the City Council approved Ordinance No. NS-2363 establishing the Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The Historic Resources Commission may, by resolution and at a noticed public hearing, designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the SAMC (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old. The structure identified meets the selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as the structure is 93 years old and is a sound example of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property. The R. Miller House is architecturally significant as an example of a Tudor Revival -style house. The original building permit is dated March 9, 1932, and indicates the residence and garage were constructed by A.H. McClary for $4,000. The original permit did not include the original owner; however, a 1932 The Register article listed A.H. McClary as the owner of the property and Jasper Farney as the contractor (The Register 1932). Available evidence did not confirm McClary lived on the property. Farney was a contractor and real estate investor from the 1920s to the 1950s. He started as part of Honer, Herzig and Farney during the 1920s to 1930s but formed his own company in the 1940s to 1950s (The Register 1928a, Ancestry.com 2017). Farney designed and constructed single- family residences in the Tudor Revival style such as 1210 S. Van Ness Avenue and 1137 S. Garnsey Street (The Register 1928b). In 1939, a second permit indicates owner, Robert Miller, hired contactor, William Rohrbacher, to construct a new chimney for $145. Robert A. Miller and his wife Eda and their son Ronald lived at the property from 1935 to circa 1956 (Press -Telegram 1935, Ancestry. corn 2011). Born in 1904 in Illinois, Miller was a real estate agent in Orange County from the 1940s into the 1960s (Ancestry.com 2022, The Register 1945 and 1965). Eda Miller was born in 1906 in Sweden (Ancestry.com 2022). Though a name is not listed on the building permit, Mr. Miller likely constructed a recreation room in 1942 for $275. A newspaper article from 1946 listed Mrs. Everett Hunter as living at 1412 N. Louise Street, though the Miller family lived at the property during this period (The Register 1946). Mrs. Everett was either a family friend or relative, or the newspaper made a mistake. In 1959, The Register listed a sale advertisement for