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<br />Page 9 of 3 Resource Name: Bessie Coulter House
<br />tleooraea by Andrea Oumovich Heywood *Date May 5, 2022 ® Continuation O Update
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<br />*133a. Description (continued):
<br />*Required information
<br />wood -framed French doors with divided lights, double -hung windows, and has three contemporary, wood -framed French
<br />doors lacking muntins on the rear elevation. A stucco -clad covered patio with double segmental arch openings is located to
<br />the rear of the building. Other features of note Include columns of three small vents near the peak of the gable ends and two
<br />brick chimneys. The property Is simply landscaped with two mature trees, a lawn, low vegetation and simple walkway at the
<br />front setback. A driveway parallels the north elevation and leads to the detached, one-story, two -car garage, which is also
<br />clad in stucco. The garage's primary (east) fegade features a front gable roof with a projecting, shad roof clad in composition
<br />shingles and garage door below the main gable. A single, wood pedestrian door and double -hung wood -frame window are
<br />also on the primary fagade. The garage gable end contains two round vents below the front gable to match the main house.
<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<br />The Bessie Coulter 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. Groves of orange, avocado, and walnut trees and
<br />widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981),
<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). Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land.
<br />And that month, he began building custom homes In Santa Ana" (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel
<br />chosen became the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Crook. °When built in the 19208, the
<br />Floral Park homes were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each" (Orange County
<br />Register, September 15, 1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic 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 AR Deco styled OM Santa
<br />Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine Base during World War Il, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Raze. 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 eady Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa
<br />Clare 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 II 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. In
<br />the 1950s, low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2022) Floral Pads maintains its
<br />Identity as the prumierneighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
<br />The Bessie Coulter House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as an
<br />example of the Tudor Revival style In Santa Ana. The property appears to be substantially intact, although the chimney was
<br />apparently truncated to roof level at some point. Additionally, the house has been categorized as Contributive" because It
<br />contributes to the overall character and history" of the Floral Park neighborhood and Is a representative example of Tudor
<br />Revival architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character -defining features of the Tudor Revival style
<br />exhibited by the house include its massing and composition, consisting of a side -gabled body with a projecting front gable
<br />mid facade; arched entry occupied by the original front door and living room window contained within the front gable
<br />projection; uneven rakes on the fairly steeply pitched front gable; stucco exterior, and mufti -fight casement windows. More
<br />unusual is the hipped roof extension to the north housing a port& cochere beneath a segmental arch opening.
<br />*912. References (continued):
<br />Hams, Cyril M. American Architecture, An Illustrated Encvclonedle. New York, WW Norton, 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, 1901.
<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 />Ancesry.com
<br />Newspepers.com (Santa Ana Register)
<br />Historic Maps, Santa Ana History Room, 1912, 1923, 193Z and 1955.
<br />Armor, Samuel. History of Orange Couniv. Los Angeles: History Record Company, 1921, page 989.
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