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HRCA No. 2024-05, HRC No. 2025-09, HPPA No. 2025-08 – The Enlow House (2556 N. Valencia Street) September 23, 2025 Page 2 Analysis of the Issues Historical Listing In March 1999, the City Council approved Ordinance No. NS-2363 establishing the Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The Historic Resources Commission may, by resolution and at a noticed public hearing, designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the SAMC (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old. The structure identified meets the selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of the SAMC, as the structure is 98 years old and is a sound example of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property. The Enlow House is architecturally significant as an intact example of a Tudor Revival- style house in Santa Ana. Assessor data indicates it was built in 1927. The original architect is unknown, but the original contractor was Sid Babcock, according to an article published in The Register on March 30, 1927 (The Register 1927a). The article described the residence as “stucco residence and garage, composition shingle roof; 2556 Valencia Street, $4000. Sid Babcock, contractor.” The earliest known occupant is Marie Louise Enlow who purchased the property by March 1927, and her husband, Edmund O. Enlow, according to an article published in The Register on March 17, 1927 (The Register 1927b). Enlow was the owner of the Madame Marie Lousie milliner shop in Santa Ana (The Register 1922; Ancestry.com 2011a). The single-family residence and garage are pictured in a 1930 aerial of Santa Ana (County of Orange Historical Aerial Imagery 2025). The Enlows occupied the residence until 1932 followed by Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Lake in 1933 (Ancestry.com 2011b; The Register 1933). Located on a rectangular parcel in the Park Santiago neighborhood, the Enlow House consists of a one-story, single-family residence and detached garage constructed in the Tudor Revival style. The parcel is bounded on the east by North Valencia Street and on the north, south, and west by private property. The residence is irregular in plan with exterior walls sheathed in stucco. The cross-gabled roof is clad in composition shingles. The asymmetrical façade has wing-and-gable composition and the main entrance is recessed within an entry porch with segmental arch openings. A defining feature of the façade is the cat-slide roof on the facade gable. Within the entry porch is a non-historic City Council 13 – 133 11/4/2025