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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />M« <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />ifM*. imt eott <br />Section number Page 72 <br />look out onto the porches. Square bays, accented with horizontal windows, <br />are Barker built this duplex and lived in half of <br />it for several years. Mr. Barker was a salesman for General <br />1925 Otto and Elsie Jacobs moved in to stay for several years. Mn -lac^s <br />went on to become a well-known attorney and junior partner in the fi <br />of Head, Wellington, and Jacobs. In 1947 he was the the —y for <br />Bnelah Overell and Bud Gollum who were accused of blowing up her <br />parent's yacht at Newport Beach, with the elder <br />trial in Orange County's historic Courthouse was followed nationwide. <br />1119 N. Bush St. Dr. C. D. Ball House Queen Anne 1896/1904/1926 <br />The home of Dr. C. D. Ball and family is topped with a steeply-.... <br />pitched hipped roof, accented in the southwest comer with a conical <br />iower. A fanciful pedimented gable, decorated with fishscale shingles a <br />multi-paned window, and a cast plaster ornament, is located above the <br />northwest end of the front facade. Narrow shiplap siding coveis the <br />exterior. A two-story rounded bay, three double-hung windows on each <br />floor, and a wrap-around porch add interest to the front facade. Round <br />wood columns, resting on shiplap-ciad piers, and loppe wit orin <br />capitals, support the porch roof. A cast plaster meda hon *e <br />pedimented gable above the porch steps. The original pmeled door, wh <br />appears to have had a window in the center, is flanke y <br />sidelights and topped with a dentil-trimmed lintel. When ^is house was <br />restored in the late 1980's, the coat of stucco that had been added in the <br />1950's was removed. .Dr. Charles D. Ball, one of Orange County's most proimnent early <br />physicians, and his wife, Emma, built this house at 1203 N. Main St. It <br />had a square tower in the southeast comer, which was replaced by a <br />round tower and Neo-classical Revival porch and cast plaster ornamenta­ <br />tion in 1904 In 1926 the house was moved to this location because Mam <br />Street had become too commercial. Dr. Ball, who served the <br />from his arrival in Santa Ana in 1887 until he died m <br />mover in founding of the Southern California Medical , <br />and the Orange County Medical Society (1889). Serving as <br />Representative to the State Legislature he was active on several legislau <br />  <br />    <br />