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<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Page 3 of 3 Resource Narne: Hamilton-Schopperl House
<br />'Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date March 25. 2021 O Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*810. Significance (continued)!
<br />Santa Ana was rounded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish /and gram known as
<br />Rdttchu .Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial cure 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 1886, and
<br />selection as the seat or the newly created County of Orange in 1889. the city grew outwards. wilt) 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 Hamilton-Srhoppert House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana hounded by
<br />West Seventeenth Street, North Flowrr Street, RivpSidr Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts
<br />and widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1697-1981),
<br />credited as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls.
<br />New York in 1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356) "Refore nightfall on the day of his arrival Mr Honer purchased a parcel of land
<br />And that month, he began building custom hornes in Santa Ana" (Orange County Register, Septerber, 15. 1981). The parcel
<br />chosen became the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. When built in the 1920s, the
<br />Floral Park horses were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each" (Orange County
<br />Register, September 1b. 1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of tomahtic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and
<br />1930s and Floral Park showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, 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 11, 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 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 horses 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 ll 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 the 1950s. low. horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park maintains
<br />its identity as the premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
<br />The Hamilton-Schopprrt Housp qualifies for- listing in the Santa Ana Register of Histodral Proportlas under- Gritroon 1 for
<br />embodiment of the distingfushtng rharartenstlrs of the Minimal Trnditinnal style. dating from the .second parind of
<br />davolopmant on North Victorta Lana. Additionally, the housa has haen rategonzed as "Cnntrihutive" hacanse it "cnntrihutos
<br />to the overall rhar'actoterrd history' of Santa Ana, and, as an early and intact CxamplC Of the Minimal Tt<drtional style rn the
<br />Floral Park neighborhood, "is a good example of period architecture. " Character defining features of the Harnilton-Schopperi
<br />Huube that should be preserved include. but may not be limited to. materials and finishes (brick. stuccu. hurizuntal wood
<br />board siding: gable -and -wing roof design with wide. overhanging. open eaves: prick chimney wood porch supports with
<br />triangular braces to each side. and divided -light metal windows.
<br />*1312. References (continued):
<br />Hands, Gyril M. American Architecture. An Illustrated Enrvrlopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
<br />Hess, Alan. Ranch House. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004
<br />March. Diann Santa Ana An Illustrated HIOnry Fnclnrta.c Heritage Puhirching, 1994
<br />McAlester'. Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
<br />National Register Bulletin 16A. "I low to Complete the National Register Registration Forrn."Washington DC: National
<br />Register Branch, National Park Service. US Dept or the Interior. 1991.
<br />Office of Historic Preservation. "Instructions for Recording Historical Resources."S'acianiento' March 1995.
<br />Whiffen. Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. CanibrldgeMIT Press. 1969.
<br />`Alison Hotter Dies at 84,"Tile Santa Ana Journal, September 21, 1981.
<br />`Builder of Honer Plaza Dies, "Orange County Register, September 15, 1981.
<br />`History of Floral Park' htto.//www.flomi park.com/gagc2.html.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Drrertorles, 1940-1979.
<br />Talbert, Thonras B. (editor). The Historical Volume and ROferonce Works. Orange County. Whittier, GA: Historical
<br />Publishers, 7963.
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