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HEMA No. 2023-03 – The Titchenel-Catland House (419 East Wellington Avenue) <br />July 6, 2023 <br />Page 2 <br />3 <br />5 <br />1 <br />9 <br />is also individually listed as No. 138 on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties <br />(“Register”). It was placed on the Register in 1997 and was categorized as “Key.” <br />The Titchenel-Catland House is an asymmetrical, two-story residence with a square <br />footprint. It sits on a raised, concrete and brick foundation and is clad in shiplap wood <br />siding throughout. The building’s overall massing is composed of a side gable roof with a <br />front gable that projects from the eastern portion of the primary (south) façade towards <br />the street. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles and is characterized by wide eaves with <br />exposed rafters and beam ends. At the primary façade, a projecting flat porch roof divides <br />the first and second story. The porch roof spans nearly the entire width of the primary <br />façade and is characterized by two square porch posts resting on wider paneled piers. <br />The porch roof also extends over a small building projection to the east that contains a <br />single, wood-hung window within the covered porch area and two wood-hung, south- <br />facing windows that are set outside of the porch. The building’s main entrance is recessed <br />within the porch and is composed of a single wood door with an arched light located below <br />a single transom. One double-hung wood window is west of the main entrance, set within <br />the covered porch. The building’s windows consist of additional double-hung wood <br />windows throughout, and wood casement windows with partially divided lights in the top <br />third portion of each window that are located throughout the second story. Louvered vents <br />are below the front-facing gable roofs. Alterations include the removal of the front porch <br />and 1919 sleeping porch and replacement with a new Craftsman style porch that <br />expanded the porch footprint to the building’s southwest corner; and the addition and later <br />removal of altered porch roof balusters. The original Victorian Italianate residence and <br />porch are visible in a 1890 photograph of the building taken shortly after its construction <br />(Exhibit 7). Additional 1920s Craftsman style alterations include a raised and altered roof <br />for additional upstairs bedrooms, which introduced new gables and eaves throughout; <br />added vents below new gables; replacement of upper-story double-hung wood windows <br />with casement windows; addition of non-original Italianate window ornamentation to the <br />double window on the south façade’s first story; and building expansion at the second <br />story. The house is enhanced by a brick pathway, mature trees, shrubs, paving, entry <br />trellis, picket fence, and landscaping. <br />Project Description <br />On March 13, 2023, Krista Nicholds, a qualified Architectural Historian, analyzed the <br />proposed project and found that it met the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards (Exhibit <br />8). The language used in Nicholds’ Standards Analysis refers to the project as a porch <br />“reconstruction” however the appropriate term for the project is a porch “rehabilitation.” <br />Nonetheless, the terminology does not detract from the conclusion that the proposed <br />project meets the Standards for Rehabilitation. <br />On May 18, 2023, the project was submitted to the French Park Neighborhood Review <br />Committee for review. City staff met with the property owner and members of the <br />Committee at the subject property on May 24, 2023, to discuss the proposed project. On <br />  <br />    <br />