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State of California-The Resources Agency Primary #
<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ANQ RECREATION HRI #
<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Page 3 of 4 Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) McGowan House
<br />'Recorded by Leslie J. Neumann, SA1C 'Date December 3l, 2003 ~ Continuation ^ Update
<br />*B6. Construction History (continued):
<br />November 9, 1982. Add 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, family room, laundry {980 square feet 15l, 919 square feet 2"d).
<br />November 2, 1988. Demo laundry rooms.
<br />March 28, 1990. Instal! beam at south side of stairway.
<br />March 8, 1991. Add outside emergency stairway.
<br />"B10. Significance (continued):
<br />indicating that the street had been ro-numbored suggests that fhe two properties, 214 and 140, maybe one and the same.
<br />Allen McGowan first appeared at 140 in the 1908-1909 directory; in 1905, he resided at 2377 North Main Street which
<br />conceivably also refers to the same property: The eariiest listing in fhe available city directories for 190 is 1909, when N.
<br />Phelps, a rancher, and his wife occupied the house.
<br />The McGowan House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood, near fhe present northern cify limits of Sanfa Ana and
<br />substantially north of the original city gore. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Park on the north, East
<br />Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the easf, North Main Sfreef on fhe west, and the !-5 freeway on
<br />the southwest. !n large part [hese boundaries reflect the transportation lines That were constructed towards the end of fhe
<br />nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when fhe Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up Main
<br />Street; the Afchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right~f--way mirrored
<br />the freeway route.
<br />This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s. As of 1905, the dty directories listed around twenty
<br />households on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, "C 5troet' (now North Santiago SfreetJ, North Bush Street and North
<br />Main Avenue, the only streets in the area at the time. The easf majority of fhe residents wore ranchers, fay 1991, the
<br />number of households had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Road and Valencia Street had been partially laid out,
<br />but most residents continued to list rancher" or fruit grower" as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of land
<br />use was evldenf on the 1912 plat map of the Cfty, which illustrated two smaq, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north
<br />of Sanfa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with fhe remaining area divided into larger,
<br />agriculture! parcels held by approximately forty landowners.
<br />While the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets west of
<br />Santiago had been laid ouf when the Cily was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be fhe most prevalent occupation in
<br />the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service
<br />professions such as pain[ers, electricians, and carpenters made their homes in the wostern half of the neighborhood during
<br />fhe 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted severe! city and county officials, including the City Attorney (Z. B. West, Jr.,
<br />321 East Santa Clara Avenuej, County Supervisor, First District (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago SlreetJ, County
<br />Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2907 North Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By
<br />April 1992, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of fho area, most of fhe Lots had Eisen improved with
<br />single-family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent devebpment of the
<br />eastern half of the neighborhood and inlill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style that emerged
<br />following World War It.
<br />The McGowan House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 9, for its
<br />representation of the distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revive! style, and under Criterion 7, as a 6uifding
<br />connected with a business or use, agriculture, which was once common and is now rare. Additionally, the house has been
<br />categorized as Landmark" because it "has a historicallcultura! significance fo the Cify of Santa Ana" as a farmhouse
<br />surviving from the agricultural era in Santa Ana. Characteristic Colonial Revival features include the nearly symmetrical
<br />design, hipped roof and rectangular massing, Classical Revival entry, and six-over-six double-hung sash windows.
<br />Character-defining exferior features of the McGowan House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to:
<br />sheathing (siding) and materials (brick); roof configuraflon and detailing; massing; windows and doors; entry; architectural
<br />details (comer boards, entry pilasfers and entablature); and mature trees.
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