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French rarx nlstoric ulstrlct, Janta Ana, l.ti-LLdI16e %.uuil�y <br />1/S Fawn 1040" am A/rwr Mr. "*A- 8 <br />P" <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 15 <br />sidelight on each side, provides the main entrance into the house. A large <br />rectangular beveled glass window accents the original stained and <br />varnished front door. Plate glass windows, topped with diamond -paned <br />transoms, are located on each side of the front porch. A slanted bay with <br />matching plate glass window, diamond -paned transom, and double -hung <br />windows is located on the Wellington Street (north) side. Double -hung <br />windows are used throughout the rest of the house. A white picket fence <br />surrounds the house. There are no apparent alterations to the house itself. <br />Although the architecture and materials of this house are typical of <br />a Colonial Revival home built about 1900-1906, it does not show up in this <br />location until 1926 (there are no odd numbers at all before that time) when <br />Mrs. Fannie Reeves, the widow of H. H., became the owner, residing there <br />for almost twenty years. <br />1014 N. French St. Isaacson House Craftsman Bungalow 1911 <br />An unusually fine example of the Craftsman Bungalow, the Oriental - <br />influenced Isaacson House is topped with a low-pitched gabled roof <br />accented with rounded exposed beams and latticework venting in the gable <br />faces. Wood shingles cover the exterior of the second floor and the original <br />stucco covers the first floor. A trio of casement windows and a pair of <br />small horizontal windows are centered in the unusual decorative wood <br />surround. A row of exposed beam ends runs along the bottom of the <br />second story. The wide wrap -around porch, decorated with exposed rafter <br />tails,. beam ends, and wide vertical board venting, features side -facing <br />gables. Heavy stucco -clad piers, topped with concrete caps, support the <br />wrap -around porch. Brick columns, with insets that form a pattern on the <br />piers below, add interest to the porch. Single rails run between the porch <br />piers. Ribbons of narrow casement windows, accented with turqoise stained <br />glass in the top quarter, are used on the first floor. The north side features <br />a cantilevered square bay and a large stucco -clad chimney. Three long, <br />narrow beveled glass panels and the original brass hardware accent the <br />wide front door. A set of aluminum windows have been installed in the <br />original openings in the second floor of the front facade. <br />H. A. Skiles was the contractor for the Isaacson House, constructed in <br />1911. Charles Isaacson was an early auto dealer in Santa Ana. After he <br />died. his wife, Lida, and daughter, Nell, continued to live in the house until <br />