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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number —Page Terry Elmo Stephenson, who built this house with his wife, Cora, is considered to have written some of the best local history in Orange County. His works included Camino Viejos (1930), Shadows of Old Saddleback (1931), and Don Bernardo Yorba (1941). For several years he wrote historical pieces for the Santa Ana Register, where he worked, from 1906 to 1927, as an editor and part owner He was postmaster of Santa Ana for twelve years, beginning in 1923, From 1935 until he died in 1943, at the age of 63, he served as county treasurer. He also served as chairman of the Red Cross during World War 1, director of the Community Chest, chairman of Goodwill Industries, treasurer of the Boy Scouts, member of the Orange County Historical Society, chairman of the Republican Central Committee, and a director of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Santa Ana. 930 N. Lacy St. Robbins House Craftsman Bungalow 1911 The Robbins House, pictured in a 1915 promotional booklet about Santa Ana, is a particularly fine example of the Tudor-influenced Craftsman style. Two stories high, it is clad in wood shingles on the second floor and narrow clapboard siding on the first floor. The steeply-pitched side-facing gabled roof is centered with a prominent gabled dormer. Triangular knee braces and horizontal venting accents the roof line. Half-timbering decorates the gable faces. Four 6-over-l double-hung windows are centered below the front dormer. 6-over-l windows are also used throughout the rest of the house. A shed-style roof, supported by pillars of red brick, occupies th-e center of the first floor front facade. Round wood columns are located next to the red brick pillars, and a solid red brick railing runs between the pillars. The porch steps are located on the north side of the porch and are topped with a pergola. The original front door features a window in the top third. Plate glass windows, topped with 8- light transoms, flank the porch. A cantilevered bay with a shed-style roof is centered in the north side, first floor. The only alteration appears to be the aluminum-framed windows in the north-facing bay. Osmond Robbins, who had this house built in 1911, was a man of many talents. A stone cutter by trade, he became the manager of the Arizona Sandstone Co. of Santa Ana in 1896. During that time, the firm provided the materials for many important buildings in southern California,