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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY DAVIS-HOY HOUSE 1225 North FI•ea>ICh Street Santa Ana, CA 92701 NAME Davis-Hoy House REF. NO. ADDRESS [225 North French Street CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92701 ORANGE COUNTY YEAR BUILT 1905 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive HISTORIC DISTRICT French Park NEIGHBORHOOD French Park NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C NATIONAL REGISTER STATUS CODE 1I) Location: ^ Not for Publication ®Uttrestricted ^ Prehistoric ®Historic ^ Bath ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Prairie Style (Antericatt Foursquare variant) The Prairie School refers to a group of architects centered in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. Printery amongst them was Frank Lloyd LVright, under whom Prairie School designs reached their apex. Echoing the uninterrupted horizontal lines of the American prairie, Prairie style homes it was largely a domestic movement-are usually characterized by broadly pitched hipped roofs with deep overhangs; two stories in height, oflett with one story wings; front porches with massive parch roof supports; and detailing which emphasizes the horizontal. A contutott, vernacular interpretation of the type, sometimes referred to as the Prairie Box or the American Foursquare, is box-like in tttassittg and plan, with hipped or gabled dormers, porches across all or a portion of the facade, a~td detailing culled front fire vocabularies of a variety of styles, including Mission Revival, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman. SUMMARY/CONCLUSION: The Davis-Hoy House was listed itt the National Register of Historic Places in L999 as a contributor to the French Park Historic District. Under the regulations implementing the California Register of Historical Resources, the building is also listed itt the California Register. It also qualifies for listing in the Sartta Ana Register of Historical Property under Criterion I as a representative example of the American Foursquare variant of fire Prairie Style common in the first decade of the hventieth cetttttry, and under Criterion 4b, for its association with t<vo prominent early citizens, Samuel Davis attd William Hoy. Additionally, lire house has been categorized as "Contribtrtive" because it "contributes to the overall dtaraeter and history" of French Park through its historic associations and its style and type, is a "good example" of the Attterican Foursquare variant of the Prairie Style, and "has not been substantially altered (Municipal Code Section 30-2.2}." EXPLANATION OF CODES: • National Resister Criteria far Evaluatiolt: (From Appendix 7 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of Historic Preservation} C: that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, ar method of canstraction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic vahtes, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. National Register Status Code: (From Appendix 2 of instructions far Recording I-listorical Resources, Office of Historic Preservatiart} 1D: Cotttribtttor fo a listed district. EXHIBIT 2 Page 1 of 5