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Page 3 of 3 f Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Borchard House
<br />'Recorded by Leslie J. Neumann I "Date January 2, 2003 0 Continuation ❑ Update
<br />*P3a. Description (continued):
<br />one-story wing is topped by a balcony. The front lawn is accented by a pair of palm trees and other mature plantings. In
<br />the rear, a portion of an o ginal pergola stands at the northeast comer of the property. Although the house has been
<br />converted into offices, it opears to be unchanged on the exterior.
<br />*1310. Significance (continued):
<br />practiced from his home and also served on the City Council in 1942-1943. In 1955, the residence was purchased by G.
<br />Willard and Hazel Bassett, who utilized the property as a home and music school. Willard Bassett was also the director of
<br />music at the United Presbyt nan Church in Santa Ana. Mr. Bassett a respected voice instructor and soloist, died in 1973,
<br />after which Mrs. Bassett, alsb a soloist, and her son Ralph continued to occupy the property and teach music (Les, 1979). By
<br />1992 the house had been c. nverted into offices for Continental Dental Plan.
<br />The Borchard House is located on East Fourth Street, several blocks east of downtown. This area, on the outskirts of town at
<br />the time the house was consitructed, offered generously sized lots well suited to the substantial massing of this 4,600 square
<br />foot, ten -room residence. Skowcasing Frederick Eley's mature style, the house was constructed concurrently with the Santa
<br />Ana Ebell and YMCA Clubh 9 uses, also exercises in Spanish -Mediterranean design. Eley, bom and educated in England,
<br />arrived in southem Cafifornid in 1907 after spending a few years in Canada. He settled in Santa Ana and opened an office in
<br />1911, quickly establishing a eputadon for residential and school design throughout Orange County. Other key commissions
<br />included churches and Bove ment buildings. From 1911 until he left Santa Ana in 1937, but particularly from the mid Teens
<br />through the mid Twenties, Eley was Santa Ana's foremost architect The Borchard House offered an opportunity to design a
<br />home on a generous budget and the gracefully designed exterior, incorporating elements culled from the Italian Renaissance
<br />Revival, and lavishly appoin ed interior featuring a generous use of wood, is a particularly notable survivor of Eley's
<br />distinguished career. Other Wedor highlights included a living room fireplace, tiled from hearth to ceiling, decorative ceiling
<br />treatments, elaborate crown moldings, leaded glass packet doors, and a built-in sideboard. Equally impressive, the grounds
<br />incorporated formal gardens whose highlights included a pergola and a rose garden containing some 200 specimens.
<br />The Borchard House qualific
<br />notable architect whose styli
<br />as "Landmark" for its unique
<br />Spanish Colonial Revival sty
<br />are considered character -de
<br />configuration, materials, ana
<br />balconies; architectural deta.
<br />landscape features such as
<br />*B12. References (continued):
<br />Harris, Cyril M. American A�
<br />Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana. A
<br />McAlester, Virginia and Lee.
<br />National Register Bulletin 16
<br />Register Branch, National P,
<br />Office of Historic Preservatic
<br />Richardson, Robert. Oranat
<br />Society, 2002.
<br />Whiffen, Marcus.. American
<br />Pleasants, Mrs. J. E. Histor
<br />Santa Ana City Directory, 14
<br />s for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Property under Criterion 2 as the work of a
<br />influenced the City's architectural development. Additionally, the house has been categorized
<br />architectural quality as a highly intact and finely detailed example of Eley's interpretation of the
<br />'e applied to a large residential commission. All original exterior features of the Borchard House
<br />fining and should be preserved, including, but not limited to: materials and finishes; roof
<br />detailing; massing, entry configuration and detailing; porte cochere; windows, doors, and
<br />Is such as columns; corbels, archivolt, and wrought ironwork, garage/guest house; and original
<br />he pergola, driveway, palm trees and other mature trees.
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<br />lustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
<br />Meld Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
<br />How to Complete the National Register Registration Form." Washington DC. National
<br />Service, US Deptof the Interior, 1991.
<br />"Instructions for Recording Historical Resources." Sacramento: March 1995.
<br />eunty's Pioneer Architect: Frederick Eley. Santa Ana, Santa Ana Historical Preservation
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<br />Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
<br />raphical. Volume Ill. Los Angeles, J. R. Finnell & Sons, 1931.
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