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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County NMF«ni1M0»4 tm. m* 001$ United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page one-half story Embree house, topped with a side-facing gabled roof. Triangular knee braces accent the roofline. Stucco covers the top two-thirds of the house while wide horizontal siding forms a wainscotting along the bottom. Oriental-influenced tresswork occupies the face of the porch gable. Square posts, resting on brick piers with concrete caps, support the covered porch and pergolas. Carved exposed beam ends accent the posts and the gable face. Pergolas, formed by carved beams extending from the house, flank each side of the gable to the corners of the front of the house. Ribbons of casement windows, accented with nine lights in the upper third, are used throughout the house. Slanted side trim and slant-cut lintels add to the Oriental character. The house appears to have no alterations. Virginia Embree, the widow of C. F. Embree, built this house in 19il. Albert and Ellen Fields owned the house in the 1920's. He was an insurance agent. 900 BLOCK N. FRENCH ST. 910 N. French St. Beatty House Craftsman/Neo-classical Bungalow 1909 Featuring both Craftsman and Neo-classical Revival architectural elements, the two-story Beatty House is capped with a hipped roof with front-projecting gables. Fine details, such as the carved bargeboards, closely-spaced carved brackets, triangular knee braces, and a cast plaster Neo-classical entrance pediment, accent this large house. A shed-style dormer, located in the center of the roof, is clad in wood shingles. Double- hung windows in pairs and trios, are used throughout the second story, with a pair of vertical windows, fronted with a small decorative balcony, in the center of the second floor, front facade. The full porch shelters a pair of, double-hung windows on the south side of the front door and a plate glass/sidelight/transom set on the north side. The door is flanked with diamond-paned sidelights which match the transom above the window to the north. The living room wall, which faces the south, along the driveway is curved, with a large brick fireplace in the center. The north facade features a square gabled bay above a slanted bay window. The wrought iron rails along the sides of the steps are not original.