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French Park Historic District, Santa Ana, CA Orange County <br />C" W Ub. "NA-W1S <br />040 <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 s z <br />work. Narrow clapboard siding covers the house. A plate glass window, <br />three -light transom, and casement sidelights occupy the space next to the <br />front door/plate glass window/ transom arrangement. Double -hung <br />windows are used throughout the rest of the house. <br />Charles and Nora Davies were the original owners of the house at <br />814, constructed in 1921. In 1919 he built the duplex to the north at 818- <br />20 N. Minter, living in the south half while he built this house. The family <br />continued to live here for more than twenty years. <br />815 N. Minter St. Grim House Colonial Revival 1898 <br />A nicely -detailed early Colonial Revival home, the Grim House is <br />capped with a bellcast hipped roof with front -facing and south -facing <br />bellcast pedimented gables, The gables are centered with semi -circular <br />wood trim, fishscale shingles, and square vents. Carved brackets <br />decorate the corners of the enclosed eaves. Narrow clapboard siding, <br />outlined with corner boards, covers the top 2/3rds of the body, while <br />newer stucco cladding covers the bottom 1/3. A plate glass window, <br />topped with dentil trim, is centered below the pedimented gable. The <br />recessed porch, supported by a wrought iron post, occupies the south- <br />west corner of the front facade. The wrought iron post, front steps, and <br />stucco are alterations. <br />Built in 1898 by C. F. Grim, an agent with the Griffith Lumber <br />Company in Anaheim, this small house was one of the first on this block of <br />Minter St. (G. St.). By 1905, Edwin and Mary Cox, a ranching family, had <br />purchased the house. Their daughters, Jennie (a dressmaker), and Mamie <br />(a milliner), lived with them. In the 1930's Joel and Helen Ogle occupied <br />the house. He was an attorney with an office in Suite 500 of the First <br />National Bank Building. <br />818-20 N. Minter St. Davies Duplex Craftsman Duplex 1919 <br />A wide, low-pitched gabled roof, which continues forward to form <br />the roof over the full -width porch, caps the single -storied Craftsman <br />duplex at 818-20. Vertical venting, single exposed beam ends, and <br />exposed rafter tails decorate the roof line. Narrow clapboard siding covers <br />