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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA <br />WS FA 1041004 <br />0-0 <br />Orange County <br />OW AWMVWMe. M"4018 <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number 7 Page 9 n <br />According to the1901 Directory, James Cameron and his wife, Harriet, <br />were the first known occupants of the house at ' 220 E. Washington St. James <br />was a millman for a local lumber company. Their daughter, Ruby, who lived <br />with them, worked for the county recorder's office. By 1905 Gerney Hadley, <br />a teacher at Santa Ana High School, and his wife lived here. Myron and Flora <br />Finch were the next occupants, in 1910. He was the chief engineer at the <br />Santa Ana Water Works. Several families lived here in the 1910's. In 1920 <br />Walter (realtor with the firm of Dobie and Grindrod, 316 W. Fourth St.) and <br />Bessie Grindrod moved in to stay until 1922. At that time James and Harriet <br />Cameron, the first known occupants, moved back in. <br />300 BLOCK EAST WASHINGTON STREET <br />305 E. Washington St. Wilson House Colonial Revival <br />1922 <br />A side -facing gabled roof, accented at the peak with caps, tops the <br />two -storied Wilson House. A matching single -storied porch, supported by <br />round wood pillars, is offset in the front facade. Narrow clapboard siding, <br />accented with a beltcourse between the two stories, covers the exterior. <br />Plate glass windows, flanked by double -hung windows featuring borders <br />and square corners of glass, are located on each side of the front door. <br />Casement windows, in singles and pairs, accented with borders and squares <br />of glass, are used on the second floor, while matching double -hung windows <br />occupy the first floor.' A brick chimney graces the west facade. Wrought <br />iron railings have been added on each side of the concrete steps to the porch. <br />Roscoe Wilson, who also built the houses at 1227 and 1229 N. French <br />built this house for himself and his wife, Grace, in 1922. They lived here <br />until the mid-1940's. During the first few years of their occupancy Mr. <br />Wilson was the president of the Santa Ana Preserving Co. on Fruit St. <br />In 1925 he founded The Wilson Company, a manufacturing firm that <br />made perfumes and toiletries at 700 Fruit St. He continued in that business <br />into the 1940's. <br />311 E. Washington <br />St. Hoffman House <br />Modern Craftsman <br />1987 <br />N. C. <br />In 1986 the <br />single -storied bungalow <br />on this lot burned <br />to the <br />ground. <br />-- o <br />C"Y19FRO rd siding, was installed. The 1�-on�� �a�acing gabled roof is �9M <br />