Item 19 - Mills Act Agreement - 1218 N French St.

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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County am Amor w Aft. X64- ors 040 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7_ Page _ 4 Walter and Florence Straub built this small house in 1924. He was a painter for the C. F. Mitchell Company, which sold paints, wallpaper, and artist's materials. The 1925 Sanborn map shows this house to be the only building on this side of the 900 block of N. Lacy at that time. 921 N. Lacy St. El Francita Apartments Spanish Colonial Revival 1932 The E1 Francita Apartments, containing 8 units, is a rectangular two - storied structure clad in its original sand finish stucco and topped with a red -clay -tile -clad hipped roof. Carved exposed rafter tails accent the roof line. Six of the entrances are on the south side, facing the driveway, and two are on the north side. Two sets of stairs, clad in flat red clay tiles and bordered with a wrought iron railing ascend to recessed porches on the second floor. Pairs of 3-light casement windows are used throughout the building. A band of recessed windows, separated by recessed stucco -clad pilasters with plain capitals and underscored with lugsills, occupies the southwest corner of the front facade. All of the doors are plain with small black wrought iron Judas windows at eye level. A row of flat -roofed stucco -clad single garages extend across the back of the property, at the end of a long driveway on the south side of the apartments. 922 N. Lacy St. Roth House English Tudor Revival 1923 A gabled roof, -with rolled edges, crowns the single -storied Roth -Berg House at 922. Wide shiplap siding covers the exterior. The impressive front porch, supported by pairs of round wooden columns with Tuscan capitals, is offset and recessed. The impressive balustrade is made of heavy, short, turned balusters. 8-over-1 double -hung windows are used throughout the house. Eight lights occupy the top third of the side -facing front door. A large red brick chimney graces the south facade. Edgar and Catherine Roth were the first owners of this unusual English Tudor Revival house. A pharmacist, he owned a drug store at 300 N. Main St. in downtown Santa Ana. In 1928 Thomas and Berniece Hunter moved to stay for twelve years. He was a representative for the Equitable Life Insurance Society.