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<br />Page 3 of Resource Name: E. A. Swanson House
<br />'Recorded by Leslie Neumann/Challet, Inc. *Date October 26, 2017 ❑x Continuation ❑ Update
<br />`610. Significance (continued):
<br />Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of Bre Spanish land grant known as
<br />Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered nround the intersection of
<br />Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and Incorporation as a city in 1885, and selection
<br />as the seat of the newly created County of Orange In 1889, the city grow outwards, with residential neighborhoods
<br />developing to the north, south, and east or Ilia city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, wilt?
<br />cultivated fields and orchards dotted with Wifely scattered farmhouses.
<br />Since the second half of the twentieth century, the neighborhood in which the E. A Swanson House is located has boon
<br />known as West Floral Park. Located northwest of the historic core of Santa Ana, this residential neighborhood is bounded by
<br />Santiago Crook on the north, West Seventeenth Street on the south, North Flower Street on the east and North Bristol Strout
<br />on the west. Prior to World War 11, the area was agricultural, divided into a few large landholdings devoted primarily to the
<br />cultivation of orangos, walnuts, and apricots. Troccs of this early era remain in the ram? of two original farmhouses (1911
<br />Westwood Street and 2402 North Flower Street) and in a few targe parcels along Flower Street. During the 1920s and 1930s
<br />a handful of houses were erected on Baker, Bristol, and Flower Streets, and two municipal facilities, the City Water Works
<br />pumping plant and the City/County Animal Shelter; were built at 2315 and 2321 North Bristol Street.
<br />West Floral Park acquired Its current identity as a neighborhood of axpansivo, California Ranch Style houses to the years
<br />following 1947. Development started slowly, will) around two dozer? homes being built on Baker, Olive, Towner, and
<br />WOsh'Jeod Streets between 1947 and 1950. Construction boomod during the 1950s and 1960s. West Twentieth Street
<br />began to be developed circa 1956-1962, according to listings in the city directories at the time. Ono builder in particular has
<br />come to be associated with West Floral Park: Roy Rodney Russell. The son of Roy Roscoe Russett, who developed much
<br />of Victoria Avenue in Floral Park, Roy Rodney Russell formed a partnership with his father, called Roy Russoll and Son,
<br />Builders, in 1945. They began building homes on speculation, usually around fifteen or twenty each year. Following the
<br />death of his father in 1965, Roy Rodney Russell continued to build, mostly custom humus and many of them In West Floral
<br />Park. He retired in 1993.
<br />The E A. Swanson House qualifies for listing in ilio Santa Ana Register of Historical Proportlos under Criterion 1 for Its
<br />representation of the distinguishing characteristics of the Ranch Style. Of particular Interest in this regard are The horizontal
<br />orientation of the design, massing under a sido-gabled roof, combination of wood and brick on Ilia exterior walls, off-centor
<br />entry sheltered by the nnalt? root, large front picture window, and detailing suggestive of ilia Colonial Revival *to.
<br />Additionally, the house has boon catogerized as"Contributive"because it "contributes to the overall character and history" of
<br />West Floral Park and "is a good example of period archttecture" as an Intact example of the Ranch Style. Characler defining
<br />features of the EA. Swanson House include: one -and -a -half story height; asymmetrical fagade; side -gabled roof (including
<br />configuration, intersecting (rent gabios, detailing such as exposed ratters; exterior materials (wood and brick); entry porch
<br />(configu(ation, materials, front door, details such as turned wood column); and fenestration (horizontal. multi -light, metal -
<br />framed windows): stied -roof cariopios over side entry and window?, and front walkway, including brick stairs to porch.
<br />'B12. References (continued):
<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. Now to Complete the National Register Registration Form." Washington DC: National
<br />Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept ofthe Interior, 1991.
<br />Office of Historic Preservation. "Instructions for Recording Historical Rosourcos."Socramonto: March 1995.
<br />Whilren, Marcus. American Architecture Since. 1780. Cambridge., MITPress, 1969.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-2017.
<br />Ancestry.com
<br />Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
<br />Historic Maps, Santa Ana History Room, 1912, 1923, 1932, and 1955.
<br />DPR 523L 25G-11
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