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

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1/s Fwa 104=4 OW AMMOW w. M064010 0410 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number -.7 Page 7 stairway is faced with a wood balcony with plain wood balusters. The underside is decorated with carved brackets. Six 12-light windows form a row along the north side of the second floor of the two-story section. The original paired garage doors, located next to the sidewalk, are accented with two rows of multi -paned windows. A matching stucco -clad wall begins at the northwest corner of the house and surrounds the back yard. Edward and Florence Moore, who built the house on the west half of the lot at 312 E. 9th St. in 1923, built this large split level Spanish Colonial Revival home in 1926. Born in Lawrence County, Illinois, on September 25, 1852, Mr. Moore came to California in 1904. He and his wife purchased eighty acres of peat land in Smeltzer. They raised celery, barley, and corn. In 1923 they purchased this property, electing to build and occupy thc; smaller house on the westernmost portion of the lot until they could build the larger residence. Albert and Marianne Muller bought the house in 1928. He was the owner of the Muller Tool Company. By 1931 Carl C. Cowles, a prominent local attorney, and his wife, Helen, moved in to stay for several years. He had his office at 310 N. Main St. in Downtown Santa Ana. He specialized in bankruptcy cases. A charter member and past master of the Silver Chord Chapter of the Masons in Santa Ana, he was active in the civic life of Santa Ana. 825-27 N. French St. Warner Apartment No. 2 Minimal Traditional 1946 Unusual arched cornices which extend through the eaves of the low- pitched eaves of the hipped roof, are the decorative focus of the two-story apartment building at 825-27. Wide clapboard siding covers the second floor while stucco covers the second floor. A single -story porch, supported at one end by a pair of narrow posts decorated with vertical lath strips and at the other by a multi -paned slanted bay window, extends across the front of the building. Two -over -two windows, divided horizontally, are used on the second floor. Tile clad stairs, with a solid stucco railing, grace the north end of the building. The only alteration appears to be the screen door. Mrs. A. K. Warner, who built this apartment building and the one next door in 1946, lived in 825, while the first tenant in 827 was M. W. Cobb.