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

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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County 040 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number —L Page —4 425-27 Wellington Please see 1104-1130 North Lacy Street 500 BLOCK WELLINGTON STREET 506-10 Wellington St. Marylin Apartments Spanish Colonial Revival 1931 Two -stories high and U-shaped, the Marylin Apartments are crowned with a red -clay -tile -clad gabled roof, with the gable faces facing front. The building is clad in its original patterned stucco. A Y-shaped stairway, bordered with wrought iron rails set in stucco clad bases, is centered in the U between the gabled wings. It divides into two sections, each ending at a second floor covered porch near the apex of the ell. Arch -shaped plate glass windows, edged with muntins, are centered in the front of each wing. Six -over -six double -hung windows are used throughout the rest of the building. Small wrought iron balconies front pairs of windows above the plate glass windows. A multi -paned french door leads into each apartment. Stucco -clad chimneys grace each side facade. A matching two-story building, which faces the parking lot on the east side of the complex features two apartments on the second floor and garages on the first floor. Built by the Yost family, of Yost Theater fame, the Marilyn Apartments are a good example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. Ed and Stella Yost not only built the apartments, but also lived in unit 508 for several years. The pioneer McFadden family owned the entire block until 1920. At that time it was offered to the city as a park, with a price of $5000. The neighbors raised half the money, but the city declined. The Yosts opened the Yost Theater on Spurgeon St in 1919 and the Broadway Yost on N. Broadway in 1925. He also served on the Santa Ana City Council in the 1930's. Active in local civic organizations, he was a fifty-year member of the Masonic Lodge 241. 514-18 Wellington Side of the Santa Ana Manor Apartments which front on N. Garfield St (920-32)