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<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI 9
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<br />'Recorded by Pedro Gomez `Date May 13, 2021 LxJ Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*810. Significance (continued):
<br />The Raddaot House is located in Floral Part(, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana hounded by West Seventeenth
<br />Street. North Flower Street. Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of orange, avocado, and walnut trees and widely scattered
<br />ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developerand builderAthson Honer (1897-1981). credited as the subdivider
<br />and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls. New York in 1922 (Talbert,
<br />pages 353-356). 'Before nightfall on tire clay of his arrival, Mc Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month, he began
<br />building custom homes in Santa Ana" (Orange County Register: September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became the Floral
<br />Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Saritlago Creek. "When built /it the 1920s. the Floral Park hotnes were the
<br />most lavish and expensive in the area. they sold for about $4b.000 each (Orange County Hegrster: September 1b, 1981)_
<br />Revival at chifecfuro in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park showcased
<br />examples of the Fimglish Tudor, Frenrh Norman, Spanish Colonial. and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer Cnn.ctniction
<br />Cgmpany went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine
<br />Base during World War 11, and the 1960 Hnner Shopping Plaza. Honor lived in the nrighhnrhond he had helped to cmnto, at
<br />615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
<br />In the late 1920s and 1930S. another budder. Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965). continued developing the groves of Floral Pad(.
<br />An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street .and West Santa Clara
<br />Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russells own large. Colonial Revival
<br />mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War /I years, Floral Park continued its development as numernuS,
<br />smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
<br />low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park mainlains its identity as the
<br />premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prnminCnt Citizens.
<br />The Raddant House qualifies forlisting in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties underCrfterion 1 as a nicely detailed
<br />pxamplp of the late Colonial Revival style in Santa Ana. Its 110n7nntality, apparent on trip faSade, presaged the past -war
<br />einett]ence of the Ranch Style and its use of a Colonial Revival main entry surround anticipated a popular variation of the
<br />Ranch style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as "Contribulive"because It cootribules to the overall character and
<br />is represerlaltve example of late Culonial Revival archileclure (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Seclion 30-2.2). Character -defining
<br />features of the late Colonial Revival exhibited by this property include its symmetrically corrrpused fd4ade: sheathing of wide
<br />clapboards intorhed by grooved endboards and a frieze board, recessed entry with paneled reveals, paneled door, and half -
<br />height sidelights, and fapade fenestration of eight -over -eight double -hung sash windows framed by shuttets,
<br />'812. References (continued)!
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<br />Ancesty.corn. 1930 United States Federal Census fdatabase on-line]_ Provo, UT, USA. Ancestry corn Operations Inc, 2002.
<br />Harris, Cyril M American Arrhitectuto An Illustrated Encyrloocdia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
<br />Marsh. Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated Historv. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
<br />McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. Now York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1.084.
<br />National Rogistor Bulletin 16A. "I low to Cornploto trio National Register Rcgistration Form. Washington DC' National Register
<br />Newspapers.cont (Santa Ana Register)
<br />Branch, National Part( Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
<br />Office of Historic Preservation. 'Instructions for Recording Historical Resources. ` Sacramento: March 1995.
<br />Whiffen. Marcus. American Archttecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1969.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories. 1920-1979.
<br />Year. 1930. Census Place: Santa Ana. Orange, California; Page: 68. Errurneratiun District: 0080; FHL microfilm: 2339917
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