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tm. wi< gpu <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number Page <br />808-810 N. Spurgeon St. Dawes-Perkins House Colonial Revival 1904 <br />A high hipped roof, accented with closely-spaced carved brackets, <br />crowns the Dawes-Perkins House, built in 1904. The two-story-high porch, <br />supported by four square wood posts, was added in 1923, when the house <br />was made into four apartments. The second story is clad in wood shingles, <br />while the first story is covered with narrow clapboard siding. A beltcourse <br />consisting of a plain, wide frieze separates the floors. A pair of arched <br />double-hung windows, flanked by a V-shaped bay on the south and a trio <br />of double-hung windows on the north, is centered in the second story of <br />the front facade. A plate glass window, topped with a diamond-patterned <br />transom, is located to the south of the four french-style front doors. A <br />slanted bay, centered with a plate glass window and diamond-paned <br />transom, is located to the north of the doors. A brick chimney graces the <br />south side of the house. A red-brick-clad porch floor and steps were <br />added in 1923. <br />Horatio Dawes, who built this house in 1904, came to Santa Ana in <br />1891. After working for the Huff Dry Goods Company for a few years, he <br />founded the clothing firm of Dawes and Hoffman in 1899. He also owned <br />an interest in the Stewart-Dawes Shoe Co of Los Angeles, was a director of <br />the First National Bank of Santa Ana, served on the S. A. School Board, <br />and belonged to the Elks and the Independent Order of Foresters. <br />In 1917 Wyllys and Fannie Perkins bought the house. They owned <br />160 acres of improved land in the El Modena district, east of Orange. Mr. <br />Perkins helped organize, the Villa Park Orchards Assn. Before coming to <br />California, he was a partner in Perkins Bros., commercial rose growers, in <br />New York (now Jackson-Perkins). A few years after Mrs. Perkins died in <br />1919, Wyllys converted the house into four apartments (1923). He and his <br />unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, lived in the apartment in the southeast <br />corner of the building (808). Wyllys died in the late 1930’s and Elizabeth <br />inherited the house and two ranches. <br />809 N. Spurgeon St. 12-unit condominium 1982 N. C. <br />U-shaped in design, the fifteen-year-old condomiums at 809 contain <br />twelve two-story units with a basement parking garage comprising the  <br />    <br />