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OW ko Me. +ap+mra 040 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 61 808-810 N. Spurgeon St. Dawes -Perkins House Colonial Revival 1904 A high hipped roof, accented with closely -spaced carved brackets, crowns the Dawes -Perkins House, built in 1904. The two -story -high porch, supported by four square wood posts, was added in 1923, when the house was made into four apartments. The second story is clad in wood shingles, while the first story is covered with narrow clapboard siding. A beltcourse consisting of a plain, wide frieze separates the floors. A pair of arched double -hung windows, flanked by a V-shaped bay on the south and a trio of double -hung windows on the north, is centered in the second story of the front facade. A plate glass window, topped with a diamond -patterned transom, is located to the south of the four french -style front doors. A slanted bay, centered with a plate glass window and diamond -paned transom, is located to the north of the doors. A brick chimney graces the south side of the house. A red -brick -clad porch floor and steps were added in 1923. Horatio Dawes, who built this house in 1904, came to Santa Ana in 1891. After working for the Huff Dry Goods Company for a few years, he founded the clothing firm of Dawes and Hoffman in 1899. He also owned an interest in the Stewart -Dawes Shoe Co of Los Angeles, was a director of the First National Bank of Santa Ana, served on the S. A. School Board, and belonged to the Elks and the Independent Order. of Foresters. In 1917 Wyllys and Fannie Perkins bought the house. They owned 160 acres of improved land in the El Modena district, east of Orange. Mr. Perkins helped organize. the Villa Park Orchards Assn. Before coming to California, he was a partner in Perkins Bros., commercial rose growers, in New York (now Jackson -Perkins). A few years after Mrs. Perkins died in 1919, Wyllys converted the house into four apartments (1923). He and his unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, lived in the apartment in the southeast corner of the building (808). Wyllys died in the late 1930's and Elizabeth inherited the house and two ranches. 809 N. Spurgeon St. 12-unit condominium 1982 N. C. U-shaped in design, the fifteen -year -old condomiums at 809 contain twelve two-story units with a basement parking garage comprising the