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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />«M>. lOM-ODK <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 />a large window, decorative panels, and multi-paned sidelights. A square bay <br />with bellcast roof, centered half way between the stories on the west side of <br />the house indicates the location of the interior stairway. Screened porches <br />occupy the rear northwest and northeast corners. A matching garage and <br />five-year-old pergola are located in the backyard. A wrought iron fence <br />borders the front yard. <br />Architect G. S. Garrett designed this fine house for the first owners, <br />Eugene Erwin and Amelia Keech, in 1899. Attorney Keech was one of the <br />best known water rights attorneys in California and was serving as president <br />of the Orange County Bar Assn at the time of his death in a car/train accident <br />on March 30, 1917. Having a particular expertise in water rights, he was <br />legal advisor for the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company and Anaheim <br />Union Water Company for almost 25 years. He was among the leaders in the <br />movement for political reform in California and took an active part in local <br />politics. Arriving in Santa Ana in 1887, he worked as a surveyor and city <br />engineer before being admitted to the California Bar Association in 1888. <br />Author Earl Stanley Gardner is said to have visited the house and to have <br />consulted with Mr. Keech while researching his books. Carl and Lena Klatt <br />bought the house for their large family in 1920. The Klatts arrived in Santa <br />Ana in 1909 and purchased an orange grove on 17th St., near Tustin Ave. <br />Prominent citizens in the city, they belonged to several civic organizations. <br />204 E. Washington St. Cleaver House Colonial Revival 1898 <br />A one-and-one-half story Colonial Revival home, the Cleaver House <br />is clad in narrow clapbdard siding on the top two-thirds, and narrow shiplap <br />siding on the bottom third, below the beltcourse. The hipped roof features a <br />front-facing gable with enclosed eaves and returns. The offset front porch is <br />topped with a bellcast hipped roof and supported by round wooden columns, <br />resting on wooden piers. A matching gable-roofed porch faces Bush Street, <br />on the west side. A plate glass window, topped with a transom is located- to <br />the west of the porch, while a double-hung window has been placed next to <br />the front door and transom. A wood picket fence surrounds the property. <br />Kenneth Cleaver built this Colonial Revival home in 1898. He was a <br />government land agent. By 1905 A. R. Tomblin Jr., an electrician, lived in <br />  <br />    <br />