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State of California -The Resources Agency
<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
<br />CONTINUATION SHEET
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<br />*Recorded by Ashley Losco & James Williams *Date September 23, 2025 IRl Continuation □ Update •
<br />*P3a. Description (continued):
<br />Secondary fa<;ades on the north, south, and west. are consistent with the general characteristics of the front-facing east
<br />far;ade, including multi-pane hung and casement windows of wood sashes; glazed wood doors; and rectangular louvered
<br />vents in the gables (Figure 3). A non-historic wood plank privacy wall along the north, south, and west property lines
<br />encloses the side and back yards. On the south elevation, near the front of the residence, is the exterior brick chimney. The
<br />west elevation features a small porch with a concrete foundation and trellis cover, non-historic glazed wood door, and non-
<br />historic wood fixed pane window flanked by casement windows and a transom. A third entrance is located on the west
<br />elevation of the rear 1947 addition featuring a glazed wood door accessed by non-historic curved concrete steps (Figure 4).
<br />Windows on the historic sections of the secondary elevations are uniformly wood-sash units, with configurations that include
<br />1/1 double-hung sashes and single-pane casements. Windows throughout the rear addition feature 1/1 wood sashes and are
<br />configured to complement the historic character of the house.
<br />Situated at the center of the parcel on the ' southern property line, the detached garage was constructed in 1927 and is
<br />rectangular in plan, sheathed in stucco, and capped with a steeply pitched front-gabled roof clad in composition shingles. The
<br />roll-up garage door faces a short driveway to the east, accessing North Valencia Street (Figure 5). The west elevation
<br />features an entrance with a glazed wood door, and the north elevation features a non-historic fixed pane wood window
<br />(Figure 6). The property is landscaped with a front and back lawn, low shrubs, mature ornamental trees, and various
<br />flowering plants.
<br />*810. Significance (continued):
<br />By April 1939, the family of Thomas B. Clark resided in the subject residence. The Clarks occupied the residence until circa
<br />1960. Mr. Clark worked as a bookkeeper, manager, and accountant for Inland Transportation Company and served during
<br />World War II (Ancestry.com 2011c). The Clark family constructed the rear, west elevation addition in 1947 which is pictured in
<br />a 1947 aerial of Santa Ana (City of Santa Ana Building Permits; County of Orange Historical Aerial Imagery 2025). The Clark
<br />family was followed by Fredrick Butler Le Vrtt in 1960 to 1963 (The Register 1963; Ancestry.com 2011c).
<br />The Enlow House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Park
<br />on the north, East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west, and
<br />the 1-5 freeway on the southwest. In large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards
<br />the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Pacffic Electric interurban railroad
<br />ran up Main Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-
<br />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), No.rth 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.
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<br />City Council 13 – 126 11/4/2025
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