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

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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County IA Fro 10 91" 040 o ^%*," r ML va.mu United States Department of the Interior NationaJ Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 7 board siding covers the first floor. A multi -paned window, flanked with double -hung sidelights now forms the front of- a recessed second -story porch, enclosed at an undetermined date. The single -storied front porch is supported by narrow clapboard -'clad pillars, crowned with Ionic capitals. High stationary windows made of leaded glass in an ornate pattern flank the original front door. The door is centered with a large beveled glass window. A square bay is located on the south side. Harry Tubbs, the owner of Tubbs Drugstore, located at 104 W. 4th St., was the first owner of this house (1904). He was a pharmacist by profession. By 1912 Lewis and Clara Vestal were the owners. He worked in the District Attorney's Office. Harry and Alice Garstang moved in in 1918. He was assistant manager of the local office of the Automobile Club of Southern California. In 1921 the occupants were Fred and Mildred Stever. He had a real estate business at 222 W. 4th St. 1209 N. Spurgeon St. Hervey House Colonial Revival 1903 Topped with a steeply -pitched hipped roof with offset matching porch roof, the upper two-thirds of the single -story Hervey House is clad in narrow clapboard siding above a beltcourse, which runs below the windows. Wide clapboard siding covers the bottom third. Closely -spaced carved brackets ring the enclosed eaves. The offset .porch is supported by wood pillars, resting on solid clapboard railings. Leaded glass transoms top the plate glass window on the north side of the front facade as well as the one on the porch. Sidelights flank the porch window and the original paneled front door. A slanted bay window is located in the center of the north facade. Dr. Albert Hervey, who came to Santa Ana in 1887, graduated from Santa Ana High School in 1895. He worked as an assistant to Dr. John McCoy before opening his own practice in the Hervey Block in downtown Santa Ana. He was active in civic affairs and in the Masonic Lodge. Hd died about 1920. Gustav and Nellie Bruns, who bought the house in 1922, were ranchers with extensive holdings in the Anaheim district, and had lived in Orange County since 1912. They lived in the house until Mr. Bruns died in 1948.