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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA <br />rs Fw 10400.4 <br />Orange County <br />am APPMOW rs. rowews <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 71 <br />1100 BLOCK NORTH BUSH STREET <br />1103-07 N. Bush Street Siemsen's Apts. Minimal Traditional 1937 <br />Consisting of two identical buildings, the Siemsen's Apartments are <br />two stories high and topped with hipped roofs. The original stucco <br />cladding covers both buildings. The front facades are symmetrical, with <br />entrance bays occupied by paneled doors, topped with Paladian transoms <br />and centered with an arched window. A pair of multi -paned arched <br />windows decorate the space above the entrance. Stationary multi -paned <br />windows, flanked by multi -paned casement windows, and single matching <br />casement windows near each end, form the fenestration for the second <br />floor. The first floor is identical except that the sets of windows on each <br />side of the entrance are set in shallow slanted bays. All windows are set in <br />metal frames. Louvered wood shutters, which appear to be original, flank <br />the windows. A metal arch between the buildings is accented with the <br />original "Siemsen's Apartments" sign. <br />William and Bertha Siemsen, who built these two buildings, also built <br />the commercial -residential building at 1810 N. Main Street, where they <br />lived for several years. Some of the original tenants, listed here in the <br />1938 City Directory, were: Clyde and Caroline Hill, Hill and Hill <br />(refrigerators, radios, appliances) located at 228 N. Broadway; Thoel and <br />Alice Olson, manager Postal Telegraph Cable Co.; Ruby Suman, researcher, <br />Orange County Title Co.; William and Mary Rorrison; Louis and Marie Cox, <br />salesman; Howard and Norman Fitzgerald; Victor McAthee, salesman for <br />Knox Bros, the Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and La Salle dealer at 519 N. Sycamore <br />St. <br />1115-1117 N. Bush St. Barker Duplex Spanish Colonial Revival 1923 <br />Symmetrical in shape, the single -storied <br />117 features matching porches at each end. <br />roofs shelter the porches. The original stucco <br />square porch pillars. A segmented arch accent <br />row of four matching double -hung windows c <br />section. Multi -paned french doors, flanked by <br />flat -roofed duplex at 1115- <br />Red-clay-tile-clad shed -style <br />covers the exterior and the <br />each porch entrance. A <br />;cupy the flat -roofed center <br />wide double -hung windows, <br />