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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County United States Department of the Interior National Par1( Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page According to thel901 Directory, James Cameron and his wife, Harriet, were the first known occupants of the house at 220 E. Washington St. James was a millman for a local lumber company. Their daughter. Ruby, who lived with them, worked for the county recorder's office. By 1905 Gerney Hadley, a teacher at Santa Ana High School, and his wife lived here. Myron and Flora Finch were the next occupants, in 1910. He was the chief engineer at the Santa Ana Water Works. Several families lived here in the 1910’s. In 1920 Walter (realtor with the firm of Dobie and Grindrod, 316 W. Fourth St.) and Bessie Grindrod moved in to stay until 1922. At that time James and Harriet Cameron, the first known occupants, moved back in. 300 BLOCK EAST WASHINGTON STREET 305 E. Washington St. Wilson House Colonial Revival 1922 A side-facing gabled roof, accented at the peak with caps, tops the two-storied Wilson House. A matching single-storied porch, supported by round wood pillars, is offset in the front facade. Narrow clapboard siding, accented with a beltcourse between the two stories, covers the exterior. Plate glass windows, flanked by double-hung windows featuring borders and square corners of glass, are located on each side of the front door. Casement windows, in singles and pairs, accented with borders and squares of glass, are used on the second floor, while matching double-hung windows occupy the first floor.' A brick chimney graces the west facade. Wrought iron railings have been added on each side of the concrete steps to the porch. Roscoe Wilson, who also built the houses at 1227 and 1229 N. French built this house for himself and his wife, Grace, in 1922. They lived here until the mid-1940's. During the first few years of their occupancy Mr. Wilson was the president of the Santa Ana Preserving Co. on Fruit St. In 1925 he founded The Wilson Company, a manufacturing firm that made perfumes and toiletries at 700 Fruit St. He continued in that business into the 1940's. 311 E. Washington St. Hoffman House Modem Craftsman 1987 N. C. In 1986 the single-storied bungalow on this lot burned to the ground. The following year this single-storied manufactured house, clad in wide clapboard siding, was installed. The front-facing gabled roof is accented