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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />rs Fw 1 o♦oo-. <br />0" <br />am A"Weew rr. ra"ao+a <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />National Paris Service <br />National Register of Historic Places <br />Continuation Sheet <br />Section number 7 Page 46 <br />Terry Elmo Stephenson, who <br />built this house with his wife, Cora, is <br />considered to have written some of <br />the best local history in Orange County. <br />His works included Camino Viejos <br />(1930), Shadows of Old Saddleback <br />(1931), and Don Bernardo Yorba <br />(1941). For several years he wrote <br />historical pieces for the Santa Ana <br />Register, where he worked, from 1906 to <br />1927, as an editor and part owner <br />He was postmaster of Santa Ana for <br />twelve years, beginning in 1923, <br />From 1935 until_ he died in 1943, at the <br />age of 63, he served as county treasurer. He also served as chairman of the <br />Red Cross during World War I, director of the Community Chest, chairman <br />of Goodwill Industries, treasurer of <br />the Boy Scouts, member of the Orange <br />County Historical Society, chairman of the Republican Central Committee, <br />and a director of the Farmers and <br />Merchants Bank of Santa Ana. <br />930 N. Lacy St. Robbins House <br />Craftsman Bungalow 1911 <br />The Robbins House, pictured in a 1915 promotional booklet about <br />Santa Ana, is a particularly fine example of the Tudor -influenced Craftsman <br />style. Two stories high, it is clad in wood shingles on the second floor and <br />narrow clapboard siding on the first floor. The steeply -pitched side -facing <br />gabled roof is centered with a prominent gabled dormer. Triangular knee <br />braces and horizontal venting accents the roof line. Half-timbering <br />decorates the gable. faces. Four 6-over-1 double -hung windows are <br />centered below the front dormer. 6-over-1 windows are also used <br />throughout the rest of the house. A shed -style roof, supported by pillars <br />of red brick, occupies the center of the first floor front facade. Round wood <br />columns are located next to the red brick pillars, and a solid red brick <br />railing runs between the pillars. The porch steps are located on the north <br />side of the porch and are topped with a pergola. The original front door <br />features a window in the top third. Plate glass windows, topped with 8- <br />light transoms, flank the porch. A cantilevered bay with a shed -style roof <br />is centered in the north side, first floor. The only alteration appears to be <br />the aluminum -framed windows in the north -facing bay. <br />Osmond Robbins, who had this house built in 1911, was a man of <br />many talents. A stone cutter by trade, he became the manager of the <br />Arizona Sandstone Co. of Santa Ana in 1896. During that time, the firm <br />provided the materials for many important buildings in southern California, <br />