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

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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County or •M MMW me. Ne mu Its Fwm 1040a W" United States Department of the interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page _ZZ__ look out onto the porches. Square bays, accented with horizontal windows, are centered in each side facade. W. Ralph and Norma Barker built this duplex and lived in half of it for several years. Mr. Barker was a salesman for General Petroleum. In 1925 Otto and Elsie Jacobs moved in to stay for several years. Mr. Jacobs went on to become a well-known attorney and junior partner in the firm of Head, Wellington, and Jacobs. In 1947 he was the the attorney for Buelah Overell and Bud Gollum who were accused of blowing up her parent's yacht at Newport Beach, with the elder Overells aboard. Their trial in Orange County's historic Courthouse was followed nationwide. 1119 N. Bush St. Dr. C. D. Ball House Queen Anne 1896/1904/1926 The home of Dr. C. D. Ball and family is topped with a steeply - pitched hipped roof, accented in the southwest corner with a conical tower. A fanciful pedimented gable, decorated with fishscale shingles, a multi -paned window, and a cast plaster ornament, is located above the northwest end of the front facade. Narrow shiplap siding covers the exterior. A two-story rounded bay, three double -hung windows on each floor, and a wrap -around porch add interest to the front facade. Round wood columns, resting on shiplap-clad piers, and topped with Corinthian capitals, support theporch roof. A cast plaster medallion decorates the pedimented gable above the porch steps. The original paneled door, which appears to have had a window in the center, is flanked by narrow sidelights and topped with a dentil-trimmed lintel. When this house was restored in the late 1980's, the coat of stucco that had been added in the 1950's was removed. Dr. Charles D. Ball, one of Orange County's most prominent early physicians, and his wife, Emma, built this house at 1203 N. Main St. It had a square tower in the southeast corner, which was replaced by a round tower and Neo-classical Revival porch and cast plaster ornamenta- tion in 1904. In 1926 the house was moved to this location because Main Street had become too commercial. Dr. Ball, who served the community from his arrival in Santa Ana in 1887 until he died in 1937, was a prime mover in founding of the Southern California Medical Association (1888) and the Orange County Medical Society (1889). Serving as the 76th District Representative to the State Legislature he was active on several legislative