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

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Frencn rarx nisLoric uisLrlCL, -anta Ana, GA orange uouncy rA /w 164r4 Or APPMPW ". 14+4018 040 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuatiori Sheet Section number 7 Page 23 In 1944 Horace and Mary Louise Pike were the first tenants in 1117. At that time Horace was in the U. S. Army. By 1947, he had gone into the bakery business in Santa Ana. Ann Faris, a dietitian at St. Joseph's hospital, occupied 1119. 1121-1121 1/2-1123-1123 1/2 N. French St. Lyons Fourplex Minimal Transitional 1937 Two -stories high, with the second story clad in wide horizontal clapboards and the first story encased in stucco, the Lyons Fourplex is basically rectangular in shape with the south half of the front facade recessed approximately six feet back from the north half. Concrete steps, bordered with wrought iron rails, ascend to the second floor. A low- pitched hipped roof, edged in carved brackets, tops the building. Most of the windows are two -over -two, divided horizontally, and are either stationary or double -hung. Narrow plant shelves, accented with carved brackets along the underside, decorate the windows at each corner of the second floor. A slanted bay window graces the center of the first floor of the north half of the front facade. Plain doors open from the side of the setback. The south facade features another slanted bay window on the first floor and a long shed -style balcony on the second floor. The first floor of the building appears to have been restuccoed within the last ten years. The stairs were probably changed in the 1960's or 70"s. Stanley Lyons, and his wife, Cecyl, were the first owners of this fourplex. He worked as an agent for the Los Angeles Times and the Santa Ana Independent. Among the first tenants were: Mrs. Hazel Magg, a member of a prominent ranching family; Norman Miller, the Sec./Tres. for the Brock Glass Co. at 202. Santa Fe Ave., and his wife, Birdie; G. A. Martin- son. manager of the Nehi Bottling Co., located at 314 E. 3rd St. 1200 BLOCK NORTH FRENCH STREET 1216 N. French St. Thee House Craftsman Bungalow 1914 Exhibiting characteristics similar to the Alexander House directly to the south, the Thee House is a large Craftsman Bungalow topped by a multi -gabled roof and fronted with a single -storied porch and pergola.