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State of California—The Resources Agency Primary # <br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # <br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial <br />'Recorded by Ricardo Soto *Date February 12, 2018 EI Continuation ❑ Update <br />'810. Significance (continued): <br />Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as <br />Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of <br />Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1866, and <br />selection as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods <br />developing to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with <br />cultivated fields and orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses. <br />The W. W. Woods House Is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West <br />Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. This neighborhood is northwest of downtown <br />Santa Ana bounded by West Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, <br />avocados, and walnuts and widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder <br />Allison Honer (1897-1981), credited as the subdivider and builder of major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in <br />Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in 1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). 'Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. <br />Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month, he began building custom homes in Santa Ana' (Orange County <br />Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and <br />Santiago Creek. "When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold <br />for about $45,000 each" (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic <br />styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, <br />Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer Construction Company went on to complete such notable <br />projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine Base during World War ll, and the 1960 <br />Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue. <br />In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral <br />Park. An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa <br />Clara Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell's own large, Colonial <br />Revival mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War it years, Floral Park continued its development as <br />numerous, smaller, singledam/ly houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival In style. <br />In the 1950s, low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2003) Floral Park maintains <br />its Identity as the premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens. <br />The W.W. Woods House qualities for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion i for its <br />exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the English Revival style. Additionally, the house has been <br />categorized as "Contributive"because it is an intact example of an English Revival residence in the Floral Park <br />neighborhood, and "is a good example of period architecture." Character -defining exterior features of the W.W. Woods <br />House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to., roof shape, configuration, and save detailing; original <br />windows where extant; brick chimneys; stucco walls; porch size and shape; courtyard size and shape. <br />`812. References (continued): <br />Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia' <br />W New York, WNorton, 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 />Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge., MIT Press, 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 <br />25A-38 <br />