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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />ar AMrwWIr. "W&Wlf <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 69 <br />1120 N. Spurgeon St. Axelson House Folk Victorian ca. 1890 <br />Wide shiplap siding, edged in corner boards, covers the exterior of <br />the Axelson House, recently restored for use as a single-family residence. <br />The gabled roof features enclosed eaves and steeply -pitched gables with <br />diamond -patterned wood shingles on each face. The shed -style roof of the <br />front porch, supported by turned posts, accented with brackets, occupies <br />the north half of the front facade. A cutwork railing runs between the <br />posts. Double -hung windows are used throughout the house. The paneled <br />front door is new. This house was made into a duplex in the 1926. A <br />second porch, plate glass window, and front door were added to the front <br />facade at that time. When the house was restored to a single-family <br />residence in 1997, these were removed and the original porch rebuilt. The <br />posts are old, but the railing is new. A rear porch, facing 12th Street on <br />the north, was added during the rehab. <br />Mr. and Mrs. Nels Axelson, the Swedish parents of the prominent <br />Mrs. Samuel Hill, who lived at 1102 N. Spurgeon, built this house when <br />they came to Santa Ana in 1890. After Mrs. Axelson died, Nels lived here <br />with daughters, Emma and Hilda until 1917. At that time James Cameron, <br />a millman, and his wife, Hattie, bought the house. Their daughter, Ruby, <br />lived with them and was a Deputy County Recorder. The house was <br />divided into a duplex in 1926. <br />1200 BLOCK NORTH SPURGEON STREET <br />1207 N. Spurgeon St. Tubbs House Colonial Revival 1904 <br />Crowned with a high hipped roof, the two-story Tubbs House <br />features a prominent front gable accented with a bellcast bargeboard, <br />finial, multi -paned window, decorative knobs, and carved brackets. <br />A five -sided two -storied bay, featuring three double -hung windows, <br />occupies the southwest corner of the front facade. Wood shingles cover the <br />second story, which has a slight flare at the bottom, while narrow clap- <br />