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State of California  The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________ CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________ Page 3_ of 5_ Resource Name: «Name_of_Structure» *Recorded by Ashley Losco & James Williams *Date September 23, 2025  Continuation  Update DPR 523L *P3a. Description (continued): Secondary façades on the north, south, and west, are consistent with the general characteristics of the front-facing east façade, including multi-pane hung and casement windows of wood sashes; glazed wood doors; and rectangular louvered vents in the gables (Figure 3). A non-historic wood plank privacy wall along the north, south, and west property lines encloses the side and back yards. On the south elevation, near the front of the residence, is the exterior brick chimney. The west elevation features a small porch with a concrete foundation and trellis cover, non-historic glazed wood door, and non- historic wood fixed pane window flanked by casement windows and a transom. A third entrance is located on the west elevation of the rear 1947 addition featuring a glazed wood door accessed by non-historic curved concrete steps (Figure 4). Windows on the historic sections of the secondary elevations are uniformly wood-sash units, with configurations that include 1/1 double-hung sashes and single-pane casements. Windows throughout the rear addition feature 1/1 wood sashes and are configured to complement the historic character of the house. Situated at the center of the parcel on the southern property line, the detached garage was constructed in 1927 and is rectangular in plan, sheathed in stucco, and capped with a steeply pitched front-gabled roof clad in composition shingles. The roll-up garage door faces a short driveway to the east, accessing North Valencia Street (Figure 5). The west elevation features an entrance with a glazed wood door, and the north elevation features a non-historic fixed pane wood window (Figure 6). The property is landscaped with a front and back lawn, low shrubs, mature ornamental trees, and various flowering plants. *B10. Significance (continued): By April 1939, the family of Thomas B. Clark resided in the subject residence. The Clarks occupied the residence until circa 1960. Mr. Clark worked as a bookkeeper, manager, and accountant for Inland Transportation Company and served during World War II (Ancestry.com 2011c). The Clark family constructed the rear, west elevation addition in 1947 which is pictured in a 1947 aerial of Santa Ana (City of Santa Ana Building Permits; County of Orange Historical Aerial Imagery 2025). The Clark family was followed by Fredrick Butler Le Vitt in 1960 to 1963 (The Register 1963; Ancestry.com 2011c). The Enlow House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Park on the north, East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west, and the I-5 freeway on the southwest. In large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up Main Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of- way mirrored the freeway route. This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s. As of 1905, the city directories listed around twenty households on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, “C Street” (now North Santiago Street), North Bush Street and North Main Avenue, the only streets in the area at the time. The vast majority of the residents were ranchers. By 1911, the number of households had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Road and Valencia Street had been partially laid out, but most residents continued to list “rancher” or “fruit grower” as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of land use was evident on the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north of Santa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with the remaining area divided into larger, agricultural parcels held by approximately forty landowners. While the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets west of Santiago had been laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be the most prevalent occupation in the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service professions such as painters, electricians, and carpenters made their homes in the western half of the neighborhood during the 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted several city and county officials, including the City Attorney (Z. B. West, Jr., 321 East Santa Clara Avenue), County Supervisor, First District (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2407 North Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By April 1942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been improved with single- family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent development of the eastern half of the neighborhood and infill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style that emerged following World War II. City Council 13 – 155 11/4/2025