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<br />Page 3 of 3 Resource Name: Raddant House
<br />'Recorded by Pedro Gomez 'Date May 13. 2021 ❑O Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<br />The Raddant House is located in Floral Park. a neighborhoo(I northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded 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. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981). credilecl as the subdivider
<br />and builder of a major- pendent of northwest Santa Arre, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver- Falls, New York in 1922 (Talbert.
<br />pages 353 356). `Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. 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 Santiago Creek. "When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes were the
<br />most lavish and oxpcnsivr in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each" (Orangc County Rcgistcr-, Scptrmbcr 15, 1981).
<br />Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park showcased
<br />examples of the Fngltsh Tudor, Frenrh Norman, Spanish Cnlnnial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Hnner Cnnstnn:rion
<br />Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Had, the El Toro Marine
<br />Base during World War ll, anct the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped to create, at
<br />615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
<br />In the fate 1920s and 1930s. another builder. Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965). continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
<br />An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineleenth Street and West Santa Clara
<br />Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell's own large, Colonial Revival
<br />mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War Il years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous.
<br />smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
<br />low, hofizontil Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park m3intiinS its identify as the
<br />premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically hnnle to many affluent and prominent citizens.
<br />The Raddant House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as a nicely detailed
<br />example of the late Colonial Revival style in Santa Ana_ Its horizonta6ry, apparent on the fagade. presaged the post-war
<br />entegence of the Ranch Style and its use or a Colonial Revival main entry surround aolicipaled a popular variation of the
<br />Ranch style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as-Cuntributive"because it contributes to the overall character and
<br />Is representative example oflate Coloidal Revival archltecture (S'aidd Ana Murdclpal Code, Section 30-2.2). Chdracter-deflidny
<br />features of the late Colonial Hevroal exhibited by MIS properly include its symmetrically composed fagade. sheathing of wide
<br />clapboards torarned by grooved endboards and a frieze board: recessed entry with paneled reveals. paneled door, and half-
<br />hcight.sidcli_ghfs; and fagadc fprrsb8tion of ci_ght-over-right double -hung sash windows framed by shuttrrs-
<br />*B12. References (continued):
<br />Ancestry.com_ California, Death Index, 1940-199( Idatabase on-hnef_ Provo, U1, USA: Ancestry_rom Operations Inc, 2000.
<br />Anccstr-y.corn_ 1930 United States Federal Census fdatabasc on-lincl. Provo, UT, USA: Anccstry.com Uprrations Inc, 2002_
<br />Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Iflustrnted EncyrfofL. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
<br />Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Enrinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
<br />MCAlostor, Virginia and Lee A Field Guide to Amencen Houses. Now York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1084.
<br />Natintal Register Bulletin 16A. "How to Complete the National Register Registration Form. " Washington DC: National Register
<br />Newspapers.conl (Santa Ana Regtster)
<br />Branch, National Park Service. US Dept of the Interior. 1991.
<br />OfficeufHtstoricPreservatton. "Instructions for Recording Historical Resources." Sacramento:March1995.
<br />Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
<br />Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1920-1979.
<br />Year. 1930; Census Place. Santa Ana, Orange, Califolnia,Page. 6B; Enumeration District: 0080; FHL microfilm: 2339917
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