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<br />Page 3_ of 3_Resource Name: P.A. Hooven House
<br />*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 8, 2022 Continuation Update
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<br />*B10. Significance (continued):
<br />The P.A. Hooven House is located in the Santiago Park neighborhood. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and
<br />Park on the north, East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west,
<br />and the I-5 freeway on the southwest. In large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed
<br />towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Pacific Electric interurban
<br />railroad ran up Main Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad
<br />right-of-way mirrored the freeway route.
<br />This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s. As of 1905, the city directories listed around twenty households
<br />on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, “C Street” (now North Santiago Street), North Bush Street and North Main Avenue,
<br />the only streets in the area at the time. The vast majority of the residents were ranchers. By 1911, the number of households
<br />had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Road and Valencia Street had been partially laid out, but most residents
<br />continued to list “rancher” or “fruit grower” as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of land use was evident on
<br />the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north of Santa Clara and on
<br />Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with the remaining area divided into larger, agricultural parcels held by
<br />approximately forty landowners.
<br />While the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets west of
<br />Santiago had been laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be the most prevalent occupation in
<br />the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service
<br />professions such as painters, electricians, and carpenters made their homes in the western half of the neighborhood during
<br />the 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted several city and county officials, including the City Attorney (Z. B. West, Jr.,
<br />321 East Santa Clara Avenue), County Supervisor, First District (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County
<br />Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2407 North Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By April
<br />1942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been improved with single-
<br />family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent development of the eastern half of
<br />the neighborhood and infill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style that emerged following World
<br />War II.
<br />The P.A. Hooven House is eligible for the Santa Ana Register under Criterion 1 as a representative example of the Tudor
<br />Revival style in Santa Ana. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it contributes to the
<br />overall character and history of Park Santiago and is a representative example of Tudor Revival architecture in Santa Ana
<br />(Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features exhibited by this property include its steeply
<br />pitched, cross-gabled roof; asymmetrical massing with a U-shaped façade; bellcast front slope of the side gable; stucco-
<br />covered exterior; and multi-paned, wood-framed windows, including a prominent round-headed window illuminating the
<br />barrel-vaulted ceiling living room.
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<br />*B12. References (continued):
<br />Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. 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, 1991.
<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 />Ancestry.com
<br />Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
<br />Historic Maps, Santa Ana History Room, 1912, 1923, 1932, and 1955.
<br />Armor, Samuel. History of Orange County. Los Angeles: History Record Company, 1921, page 989.
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