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<br />Page: 3 . of '3 Resource Name or# (Assigned by recorder) H.L. Johnson House
<br />Recorded by Adan Matuk `Date September 5, 2017 © Continuation ❑ Update
<br />''B70: Significance (continued);_
<br />Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon'in 1869 as a speculative town site on, part of tho Spanish'land grant known as
<br />Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial cor6 bit the community was centered around the intersection of
<br />Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival ofthe Santa Fe Railroad aiid incorporation as a oily in fB66, and
<br />selection as the soafof the newly, crealed Counly, of Orange in 1889, thWcity grew'eutwards .with -residential neighborhoods
<br />developing to the north, south,, and east of the city center., Agricultural uses predominaled in the'outlying areas, with
<br />cu8ivaled fields and orchards dotted wlth'vridclyscalte'red farmhouses.
<br />The H.L. Johnson House is located in file Park Santiago neighborhood rtear,the presont northern citylimits of Santa Ana
<br />and' substantially north ofthe original city care. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago, Creek and Park on the north,;,
<br />East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Maier Street on.tlte'wesi, and the 1-5 freeway
<br />on the southwest. In large pad,; thosoboundariesYeflecl.lhe transpo fatiorr7ines that were constructed towards the end of
<br />tate nineteenth century and at the beginning of the, t'wentloth century, when the Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up
<br />Main Street; the Atchison, Topoka, and SantaFe tracks followed Lincolnyand the Southern Paci(c Railroad right -of --way
<br />mirrored the freeway roule'. This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s. As of 1905, the city directories
<br />listed around twentyhouseholds on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street,'"CSlreet" (now Norfh'Saritiago Street), Nodh 8irsh
<br />Street
<br />and North Main Avonuo,. the only streets In'!he area at tho time. The ;vast ma"Ity o(the residents were ranchers.' By
<br />i9 i 1,'th0
<br />riumber:of households had rncroased to about thirty and Edgewood Road and Valencia Slreef had been pa Bally
<br />laid out, but most residents continued to list 'Yancher" or "fruit grower; as their occupation in Ina city diroctodes. This pattern
<br />ofland use was bvidenf ort lite 1912 plat map oflho C ty, vrhich i8ustrated two small• Craftsman era stibdivlslons along.Bush
<br />north of Santa Clara and,on ValonclI and Poinsettia south of Twenlioff! Street; wilnthe remaining area divided into larger
<br />agricultural parcels hold by approximalely forty landowners,
<br />White the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid4920s, most of the present daystreets'tvest of
<br />Santiago had boon laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranchingpontinuod to be the most prevalent occupation in
<br />the neighborhood, but increasing numbers ofproressienals; small business owners,. rnerchantsd p
<br />, and In service
<br />professions such as painteis,'electriclans, and carpenters made their homes in the wastcrn half of the neighborhood,durhig'
<br />the 1920s and 1930s, The area'also affiacted several city and county officials, including the AttorneyCity _ (Z.B. West, Jr.,
<br />321 East Santa Clara Avenuo), County Supervisor,' First D strict (C.H. Chapman, 2315 North Sandarjo Street), County
<br />Surveyor (E.H. Irwin, .2407 North Santiago Strcot), and County Auditor (IMIQem C. Jerome, 2422.Poinsettla Street). By April
<br />1942 when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been improved with
<br />single-fanHly'homes, many in the revival slylespopular during the i920s and 1930s. Subsequont development of the
<br />eastern half of the neighborhood and inflil constmction in the western half displayed the s/mplifled ranch style !hilt omerged,
<br />followingWodd lr✓ar1L
<br />The N.L. Johnson House qualiries for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties unifier Critorion 1 for its
<br />exemptirication of tho distinguishing charadedstics of the English Revival siyla. Additionally the house -has been
<br />categorized as "Contributive"} -causo it "is'a good example of period architecture"in its presentation of the English Revival
<br />style: All original exterior features of the H.L. Johnson House are considered to be character defining and should be
<br />preservod. These features include, but may not be anted to: materials and finishes (stucco, brick); roof conliguration,
<br />materials, and treatment; massing and composition; doors and windows, including leaded glass lwadow; and architectural
<br />detailing (calslldo flare).
<br />*131z References (continued):
<br />Marsh, Diann. _Santa Ana, An Illustrated History: Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
<br />IaICAtester, Virginia and, Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. Now York Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
<br />National Register Bulletin 26A. "How to Complete the National Register Rcgistralion Form." Washington DG National
<br />Register Branch,;Nalional Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 4991,E
<br />Orrice of Historic Proservation. "Instructions for Recording Historical Resources."Sacremento:.AAarch 1995.
<br />Whitton, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MITPress, X1969.
<br />Orange County Plat Maps, 1912,
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1926-1980.
<br />Santa Ana History RoomCollection, Santa Ana Public Library.
<br />DPR 523L.
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