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

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French Park historic Uistrict, Santa Ana, CA Orange County 1M hnw 1640+ or A//wr Aw roKAof/ 040 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 7 Page 18 with vertical scoring. The frieze at the top of the porch features three equal -sized molding -trimmed arches, with the entrance in the northern- most arch. A leaded glass transom tops the three plate glass windows on the porch. Two front doors, with the southernmost being original, occupy the north end of the porch. A plain black wrought iron fence surrounds the front yard. Harl and Josephine Kittle, owners of a local ranch, built this fine house in 1909. A few years later Albert Perkins moved in to stay for thirty-six years. Before his retirement he was a botanist and rose grower. He belonged to the family that was part of the Jackson -Perkins Bros. nursery business, based in Newark, New Jersey. He was a member of Masons and the Elks. 1104 N. French St. Ernest Smith House Spanish Colonial Revival 1924 A flat roof, bordered with an uninterupted parapet, tops the single - storied stucco -clad Ernest Smith house. The porch is sheltered by a red - clay -tile -clad shed -style roof with a shaped parapet at each end. Three matching arches, with the northernmost serving as the main entrance, form an arcade across the front of the porch. Another arched opening leads to the porch's south side. A red -clay -tile -clad hood shades the pair of arched windows in the front facade, to the north of the porch. Paired of small arches accent the top third. Four tall, narrow, matching windows look out onto the front porch. An arched, recessed side porch opens off of the south (driveway) side of the house. The house appears to have been restuccoed. A small black wrought iron fence surrounds the front yard. Ernest and Ada Smith built this house in 1921, and lived here for over twenty years. He was a building contractor. 1107 N. French St. Rev. Russell House Craftsman Bungalow 1911 A side -facing gabled roof, centered with an attractive gabled dormer, tops the Russell House, constructed in 1911. Carved and decorated bargeboards, finials, carved beam ends, carved rafter tails, and criss-cross lattice venting accent the dormer and gables. A frieze, accented with a row of decorative knobs, runs across the bottom of each side -facing gable. Narrow clapboard siding covers the exterior, the square porch columns, and