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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />Oi* toM-ODf* <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number Page <br />John Beatty, a prominent local newspaperman and store owner, built <br />this house in 1909. He owned the Santa Ana Blade during its early years <br />and was a partner in the Crookshank-Beatty Company, a store in the <br />Spurgeon Building. Louis Beeman, a teacher at Santa Ana Junior College, <br />and his wife, Stella, owned the house in the 1920's, 30's, and 40's. <br />916 N. French St. George Smith House Colonial Revival 1902 <br />Built in 1902 by George and Carrie Smith, this two-story Adams-style <br />house is possibly the best example of this style of house surviving in Orange <br />County. Two-stories high and topped with a hipped roof with matching <br />dormers facing each direction, the house is clad in narrow clapboards. <br />Well-proportioned, with a full single-story porch acrosss the front, the <br />rectangular building is symmetrical in form. Pairs of fifteen-light casement <br />windows are used throughout the house. Shutters accent the windows on <br />the second floor. In the center is a small balcony which fronts four french <br />doors, each with fifteen lights. Carved brackets accent the underside. Four <br />square clapboard-clad columns support the porch and arched frieze. Ihe <br />solid railings are clad in clapboard. The stained and varnished front door is <br />flanked by beveled glass sidelights and topped with a molding-trimmed <br />lintel. The only alteration appears to be the wrought iron railings on each <br />side of the wide front steps. A matching carriage house still exists behind <br />the house. ..... <br />George S. Smith, a partner in Smith-Tuthill Mortuary, and his wife, <br />Carrie, built this house in 1903. Very prominent in the county, Mr. Smith <br />served as the Coroner and Public Administrator in the 1910's. The family <br />lived in the house for more than forty years. <br />918 N. French St. Gleason-Carden House Colonial Revival 1903 <br />A high hipped roof, centered with a prominent front-facing gable^ <br />crowns the Gleason-Carden House, built in 1903. Decorated bargeboards, <br />fishscale shingles, pairs of carved brackets and elaborate decorative knobs <br />decorate the front gable. Narrow clapboard siding covers the body of the <br />house. An intricate balcony crowns the center of the single-storied front <br />porch. Four round columns support the front porch. Carved balusters form <br />rows between the columns. The original stained and varnished front door is <br />flanked by multi-paned beveled glass sidelights. Fluted pilasters, topped <br />  <br />    <br />