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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />^Mi. fOii OPf <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number Page 37 <br />Thomas Warne, who built this house with his wife, Willia, in 1914, was <br />a collector with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. By 1923 he was a teller in <br />the at the Orange County Trust and Savings Bank. In 1925 Francis and <br />Abbie Shoen bought the house. They were partners in the Shoen Bros. <br />Dairy, located at New Hope Rd., south of Smeltzer Rd, R. D. 6, of Santa Ana. <br />817 N. Lacy St. Harmon-McNeil House Eastlake/Stick Victorian 1888 <br />Elaborate Eastlake detailing accents the large two-story Victorian <br />at 817 N. Lacy. It is one of the best examples of this style of architecture <br />surviving in Orange County. Pedimented gables, decorated with fishscale <br />shingles, extend from the high hipped roof to the front (west) and north­ <br />facing facades. A two-story square bay, featuring paneled detailing, cut- <br />corners, and teardrops, dominates the south half of the front facade. Pairs <br />of tall, narrow double-hung windows occupy the front section, while <br />narrow matching windows face out the the sides. Fishscale shingles cover <br />the skirt below the second floor windows. Carsiding panels, placed on the <br />diagonal, accent the area below the first floor windows. A two-story <br />diagonal bay window, topped with a pendimented gable, extends from the <br />northwest corner of the front facade. The single-story wrap-around porch <br />is supported by turned posts, accented with carved brackets. Ball-and- <br />stick fretwork forms a row below the eaves of the porch roof. The railing is <br />made of cutwork. Heavy newel posts support the ends of the wooden front <br />steps. Double doors, topped with an etched glass transom, lead to the <br />interior. <br />Built on Chestnut St. in 1888 by James Blee for George Edgar, this <br />house was exchanged for Willis Blee's house on the same street in 1895, <br />because the Blees needed a larger house and the Edgars needed a smaller <br />one. The next owner was John Harmon, a local dairy owner. In 1904 the <br />house was sold to John McNeil for $4000. It as in the McNeil family until <br />1976 and served as a rooming house during W. W. II. It was moved to this <br />site in 1896, to save it from demolition by an apartment builder. <br />818 N. Lacy St. Apartment House ca. 1975 N. C. <br />The two-story stucco-clad rectangular apartment building at 818 <br />  <br />    <br />