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<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI 9
<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Page 3 of 3 Resource Name' Hamilton-Schopped House,
<br />'Recorded by Pedro Gomez `Date March 25, 2021 Lx3 Continuation ❑ Updatra
<br />*1310. 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 Founh 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 nosh. south. and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with
<br />cultivated fields and orubards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses
<br />The Hdmllron-Schoppert House /s located in Floral Park. a nelghborhood northwest of downtown Sdntd Ana bounded by
<br />West Seventeenth Slreel, North Hower Street, Hrverside Unve. and Broadway. Groves or oranges, avocadus, and walnuts
<br />and widely scattered ranch houses rhar-actrnzrd this area boforc 1920- Devrlopor-and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981),
<br />credited n.s the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ann, arrived in Santa Ana from 89RVer Falls,
<br />New York in 1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). "Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr Honer purchased a parcel of lend.
<br />And that nrnnth, hr organ building rustom homes in Santa Ana" (Omngr. County Rrgistrr, Scptomhrr 15, 1981). Thr parrrl
<br />chosen became fire Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. "When built in the 1920s, the
<br />Floral Park homes were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about S45.000 each" (Orange County
<br />Resister. September 15. 1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and
<br />1930s and Flotal Park showcased examples of the English Tudor. French Noiman, Spanish Colonial. and Colonial Revival.
<br />The Allison Honer Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa
<br />Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine Base during World War It, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the
<br />neighborhood he had helped to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
<br />In thr, lair, 1920s and 1930s, anothrr builder, Roy Rosror Russell (1881-1965). rontinurd dcvclnping the grnvrs of Floral
<br />Park. An early Russell project was his 1928 .subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth .Street and West Santa
<br />Clara AvPivip. T17P homes wpm ryuite grand and displayed vannus revival styles, inrluding Russell's nwn large, C.nlonial
<br />Revival mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War 11 years. Floral Park continued its development as
<br />numerous, smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style.
<br />In [he 1950s, low, horizontal Randy Style houses completed the gruwth or Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park mairilaitrs
<br />its identity as the prernter netghborhood of Santa Ana. historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
<br />The Hamilton-Schoppert House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for -
<br />embodiment of the distinguishing characteristics of the Minimal Traditional style, dating from the second period of
<br />development ore North Victoria Lane. Additionally, the house has been categorized as "Contributive" because it "contributes
<br />to the overall character and history" of Santa Ana, and, as an early and int,30t example of the Minimal Traditional Style in the
<br />Flot aI Park neighborhood, is a good example of perod architecture."Character defining features of the Hatilton-Schoppert
<br />House that should be preserved include, but may tint be Itinited to, materials and finishes (brick, stucco, horizontal wood
<br />board siding. gable -and -wing roof design with wide. overhanging, open eaves. brick rhimney: wood porch supports with
<br />triangular braces to each side: and divided -light metal windows.
<br />*812. References (continued):
<br />Harris, Gyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton. 1998-
<br />Hess, Alan_ Ranch House. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc_ 2004
<br />Marsh. Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated Historv. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1904.
<br />McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
<br />National Rcgistcr f3ulletin 16A. "flow to Complete the National Rcgistcr Registration Form." Washington DC: National
<br />Register Branch, National Park Service. US Dept. of the Interior. 1991.
<br />Office of titstonc Preservation. 'lnstntctions for Recording Historical Resources.' Sacramento. March 1995.
<br />Whitten. Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1969.
<br />"Alison Honer Dies at 84,"The Sanla Ana Journal. September 21. 1981.
<br />"Builder of Horner Plaza Dies,Orange County Register: September 15, 1981.
<br />"History of Floral Park. " http://www. floral oqrk.com/Qaqc2.htrn
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1940-1979.
<br />Talbert, Thomas B. (editor). The Historical Volume and Reference Wnrks: Orange County. Whittier, CA: Historiral
<br />Publishers, 1963.
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