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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuatiofi Sheet <br />Section number Page <br />Walter and Florence Straub built this small house in 1924. He was a <br />painter for the C. F. Mitchell Company, which sold paints, wallpaper, and <br />artist’s materials. The 1925 Sanborn map shows this house to be the only <br />building on this side of the 900 block of N. Lacy at that time. <br />921 N. Lacy St. El Francita Apartments Spanish Colonial Revival 1932 <br />The El Francita Apartments, containing 8 units, is a rectangular two- <br />storied structure clad in its original sand finish stucco and topped with a <br />red-clay-tile-clad hipped roof. Carved exposed rafter tails accent the roof <br />line. Six of the entrances are on the south side, facing the driveway, and <br />two are on the north side. Two sets of stairs, clad in flat red clay tiles <br />and bordered with a wrought iron railing ascend to recessed porches on the <br />second floor. Pairs of 3-light casement windows are used throughout the <br />building. A band of recessed windows, separated by recessed stucco-clad <br />pilasters with plain capitals and underscored with lugsills, occupies the <br />southwest corner of the front facade. All of the doors are plain with small <br />black wrought iron Judas windows at eye level. A row of flat-roofed <br />stucco-clad single garages extend across the back of the property, at the <br />end of a long driveway on the south side of the apartments. <br />922 N. Lacy St. Roth House English Tudor Revival 1923 <br />A gabled roof, with rolled edges, crowns the single-storied Roth-Berg <br />House at 922. Wide shiplap siding covers the exterior. The impressive <br />front porch, supported by pairs of round wooden columns with Tuscan <br />capitals, is offset and recessed. The impressive balustrade is made of <br />heavy, short, turned balusters. 8-over-1 double-hung windows are used <br />throughout the house. Eight lights occupy the top third of the side-facing <br />front door. A large red brick chimney graces the south facade. <br />Edgar and Catherine Roth were the first owners of this unusual <br />English Tudor Revival house. A pharmacist, he owned a drug store at <br />300 N. Main St. in downtown Santa Ana. In 1928 Thomas and Berniece <br />Hunter moved to stay for twelve years. He was a representative for <br />the Equitable Life Insurance Society. <br />  <br />    <br />