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Integrity This site is all that remains from a once larger poultry farm and a later feed mill operation deveJoped by the original owner/builder, Mr. Edward A. Walker. The main residence and the accessory structures are the only remaining improvements. The main residence has not been altered and has been well maintained to this day. Based on local building permit records, the summerhouse may have originally been constructed in 1923 as a poultry house, which was later expanded with an incubator puildinq. If so, the present summerhouse represents an extensive modification of those earlier facilities, and it now exists as a one -room building, with kitchen and bath facilities. The greenhouse appears to be ire its original condition, but it is deteriorated and is no longer in use. Significance The primary residence is a well- maintained and unusually large example of the Mediterranean/Mi5sion influenced Classical Box style. While this style is not unique in Santa Ana or Southern California, the Walker Residence is prQbabty the test e amp4e 1Df tllis stytiv� 5n Santa Ana, in terms of its size, Integrity and condition. From a h €5toricai standpoint, the Walker Residence is locally significant, as one of the fow remnants Qf the agr €cultural economy that was predominant in the history of Santa Aria. Mr. Edward A. Walker, the original owner of this property was a successful poultry farmer in this area for Several years during the early 1900's. Sometime prior to 1979 he purchased the Banner Mills, a large local feed mill facility which had been for several years and revived the feed mill operation at this site. Mr. Walker operates{ the feed mill, supplying local poultry farmers. until at least 1945, when reference to it i5 dropped from City directories. In T950, this property was purchased by the Catholic Church of Orange County, in conjunction with the development of dater Del High School, the first Catholic High School in Orange County. Bibliography flatheway McKenna, Supplemental l'nformation: Request for Determinat€on of Pigibility for the Walker esidence, May 26, 1987. is5e , Ronald Proper t -urey Report: — pistol Street Between First Street and Warrier Avenue, ity v ants na, range aunty, a i �rnia, September, _f ,Geographical data and Map See Exhibit "A". Photographs See Exhibit "B ".