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timFantIMBM (W* French Park Historic D i s t r ic t, ' S ant,a . Ana , CA Orange County CM Amufmrn ',vsc-mfe. United States Department of th® interior Mationai Park Service y-i'- ■ National Register of Historic Places Continuatioit Sheet Section number 13 liieir husbands and service personnel that did not want to live on the base lived in the large houses surrounding Downtown Santa Ana. The largest Ibmmercial center in Orange County, it provided all kinds of shopping conveniences, especially for one-car families. Ten two-story apartment buildings, mostly built in the rectangular Neighborhood Context: Santa Ana has several historic neighborhoods. One other, Heninger Park, is designated as a local historic district. Although it is larger than the French Park Historic District, it contains more apartment buildings, especially in the north half, where the Craftsman and Colonial Revival homes once stood. The south half features Revi'^al houses from the 1920s. Many more of the houses have been altered, particularly with stucco coating and aluminum-fraraed windows. Eastside, a large historic neighborhood south of First St., once had a rdv/ of tine 1880s houses along Chestnut St. However, much of Eastside and jtourplex design that was popular at the time were constructed in French Park. They illustrate the increased urbanization of the City. The Siemsen's Apartments, built in 1937, consist of tv/o identical four-unit buildings at 1103-07 N. Bush. Rectangular and symmetrical, they feature large stationary windows flanked by metal-framed rnulti-paned InserTient v/indows. Tite Lyons fourplex, located at 1121-1123 1/2 N.. . French v/as also built in 1937. A U-shaped duplex at 1107-09 K. Spurgeon was built in 1940. # The year 1946 saw the construction of seven Minimal Traditional , fourplexes in French Park. The Warner Apartments at 817-2.6 N. French feature an unusual rounded two-story bay in the center. That building, and the m?its next door at 825-27 are both clad in stucco, with hori/.onttu wood siding on tlie second tloor. The fourplexes at the comer of Lacy and Vance feature horizoiua] banding between the two floors. The stucco-clad Breaux Apartments at 901-907 N. Minter, built in 1948, contain the two-over-two horizontally divided windows so often used in the 1940s. A matching building is located next door, at 403-09 Vance St. In conclusion, the above information illustrates that the French Park Historic District conveys significant and unique visual qualities which represent the historical and architectural character important to the city of Santa Ana. I .* V ,