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<br />'Recorded by Holly Soboleske *Date February 20, 2013 D Continuation ©Llpdale
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<br />The Stanley House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood, near the present nortlrem city limits of Santa Ana and
<br />substantially north of the origins! city core. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Parts on the north, East
<br />Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east North Main Street on the west, and the !-5 froeway on
<br />the southwest. 1n Large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards the end of the
<br />nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Paci>tc Electric interurban railroad ran up Main
<br />Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way mirrored
<br />the freeway mute.
<br />This area remained primarily agricultural well info the 7920s. As of 1905, the city diroctories listed around twenty
<br />households on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, "C Street" (now North Santiago Street), North Sush Street and North
<br />Main Avenuo, the only streets in the area at the tirno. The vast majority of the residents were ranchors. By 191 !, the
<br />number of households had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Raad and Valencia Street had bean partially laid out
<br />but most residents continued to list "rancher" or "fruit grower" as (heir occupation in the city directories. This pattern of Land
<br />use was evident on the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, CraHsman era subdivisions along Sush north
<br />of Santa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with the remaining area divided rota larger,
<br />agricultural parcels held by approximately forty landowners.
<br />White the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets wesf of
<br />Santiago had been laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be lire most prevalent occupation in
<br />the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service
<br />professions such as painters, electricians, and carpenters made their homes in tiro westem half of the neighborhood during
<br />the 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted several city and county ofrcials, including the City Attorney (Z. 8. West, Jr.,
<br />321 East Santa Clara Avenue), County Supervisor, First District (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County
<br />Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2907 North Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2822 Poinsettia Street). 8y
<br />Apri11942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the westem half of the area, most of the tots had been improved with
<br />single-family homes, many in the revive! styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent development of ttre
<br />eastern half of tho neighborhood and int<!l construction in the westem half displayed the simplified ranch sfylo that emerged
<br />fallowing World War !1.
<br />Tha Stanley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its
<br />representation of the distinguishing characteristics of the Spanish Colonial Revive! style. Additionally, the house has been
<br />categorized as "Contributive"because if is a"good example of period architecture': Character defining foatures include
<br />oxterior materials, origins! windows, proch configuration.
<br />*t312. References (cantinued~:
<br />Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
<br />Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana. An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
<br />McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
<br />National Register Bulletin 16A. "How to Complete the National Register Registration Form."Washington DC: National
<br />Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
<br />Office of Historic Preservation. "Instructions for Recording Historical Resources." Sacramento: March 1995.
<br />Wlriffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
<br />Armor, Samuel. History of Orange County. Los Angeles: History Record Company, 1921, page 989.
<br />Park Santiago NoighborhoodAssociatton. °The Gingerbread Londe Holiday Horne Tour, 1999." Brochure.
<br />Rischard, Maureen McClintock. "People Behind Places: Enderie Genter." Oran e Coun Geneolo ice! Soctet uarterf
<br />December 1993, pages 4-7.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-1930.
<br />Historic Maps, Santa Ana History Room, 1912, 1923, 1932, and 1955.
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