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French Park Historic District, San ta Ana, CA Orange County .,..,_,0.-.. .... United States Dep a rtment of the Interior NationaJ Park Serv ice National Regi ster of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number --8-P 14 age __ _ almost all of Chestnut Street has been given over to apartments. There are still some important historic houses, but they no longer convey a cohesive view of the historic and architectural character of the neighborhood. The eastern half of Eastside is primarily 1920s in development. Development began in Wilshire Square a.nd Washington Square in the 1920s. The center section of Washington Square, a pleasant tre e-l ined neighborhood, was developed in the late 1930s, while the northern third was built up in the 1940s and 50s. Wilshire Square, south of Heninger Park , consists of many charming single-storied Tudor Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Minimal Traditional homes, all built in the 1920s. The Willard nei gh borhood, still has half a dozen fine historical !wu s es, in spite of almost complete replacement of the original h o mes by large apartment comp l exes i n the 1970s, 80s, and 90s . T he Logan neighborhood , east of French Park, was a Victorian ne i ghborhood th a t gave way to industrialization in the 1940s. Throug h t 1e years, more and more of the original homes have disappeared or been heavily altered. There are approximately a dozen u naltered historic houses re marn1ng. Flower P ark , another l 880s-l 920s neighborhood, is located west of the Civic Cente r. The neighborhood has seen many chang e s with the addition of several apartment houses and major alterations to all but eight or so of its historic homes. Fourth Street, the main artery of the Saddleback View neighborhood, still has a few of the large houses for which Santa Ana was once known. Most have been replaced by large very modern professional office buildings. The rest of the neighborhood, north of Fourth St., consist s of a mi xture of single -storied 1920s, 30s, and 40s houses. Floral Park, a large historic neighborhood north of Seventeenth St., is known for its large homes built in the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s . It repres e nts a different historical period and architectural character than the French Park Historic District. Preservation Efforts: In t he 1940s and 50s, after many of the original owners of the large homes in French Park had died, the houses were purchased by landiords who made them into rooming houses. While some were fairly well main- tained, others became deteriorated . Two houses on N . Spurgeon, three on N.