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State of California-The Resources Agency Primary #
<br />DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
<br />CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial
<br />Paae 3 of 4 Resource Name or # fAssianecl by recorder) McGowan House
<br />`Recorded by Leslie J. Herrmann, SA1C *Date December 31, 2003 ~ Continuation ~ Update
<br />"66. Construction History (continued];
<br />November 4, 1982. Add 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, family room, laundry (480 square feet 15f, 9 i3 square feet 2"d).
<br />November 2, 1988. Demo laundry rooms.
<br />March 28, 1930. lnsta!! beam at south side of stairway.
<br />March $, 1991. Add outside emergency stairway.
<br />*B'f0. Significance (continued):
<br />indicating that the street had been re-numbered suggests that the two properties, 214 and 940, may be one and the same.
<br />Allen McGowan first appeared at 140 in the 1908-9909 directory,' in ?905, he resided at 2377 North Main Sfreet, which
<br />conceivably also refers [o the same property. The earnest fisting In the available city directories for 140 is 9901, when H.
<br />Phelps, a rancher, and his wife occupied the house.
<br />The McGowan House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood, near the present northern city limifs of Santa Ana and
<br />subsfanfially north of the original city core. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Park on the north, Easf
<br />Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west, and the t-5 freeway an
<br />the southwest. fn large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards the end of fhe
<br />nineteenth century and at the beginning of tho twontiefh century, when the Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up Main
<br />Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa ~e tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of--way mirrored
<br />the freeway route.
<br />This area remained primarily agricultural watt into the 1920s. As of 9905, the city directories listed around twenty
<br />households on t;ast Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, "C Street" (now North Santiago Street), North Bush Street and North
<br />Main Avenue, the only sheets in the area at the time. The vast majori[y of the residenfs were ranchers. By 1919, the
<br />number of households had increased to about fhirty, and Iwdgewood Road and Valencia Street had boon partially laid out,
<br />but most residents continued to list "rancher" or °fruit grower" as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of tend
<br />use was evident on the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north
<br />of Santa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twenfieth Street with the remaining area divided into larger,
<br />agricultural parcels held by approximately forty landowners.
<br />While the area east of Santiago 5treef was not subdivided until after the mid-1920s, most of the present day streets west of
<br />Santiago had been Laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be the most prevalent occupation in
<br />the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service
<br />professions such as painters, etectrfcians, and carpenters made their homes in the western half of the neighborhood during
<br />the 1920s and 1930s. The area also atfracted several city and county officials, including the City Attorney (z. I3. West, Jr,
<br />321 East Santa Clara Avenue), Counfy Supervisor, First Disfrict (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County
<br />Surveyor (E. H. Irwin, 2407 Noah Santiago Street), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By
<br />April 1942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been improved with
<br />single-family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent development of the
<br />eastern half of fho neighborhood and infill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style thaf emerged
<br />following World War 1!.
<br />The McGowan House qualities for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Griferion 1, for ifs
<br />representation of the distinguishing characteristics of #ho Colonial Revival style, and under Criterion 7, as a building
<br />connected with a business or use, agriculture, which was once common and is now rare. Additionally, the house has been
<br />categorized as "Landmark" because it has a historicaUcuRural significance to the City of Santa Ana" as a farmhouse
<br />surviving tram the agricultural era in Santa Ana. Characteristic Cotoniaf Revive! features include the nearly symmetrical
<br />design, hipped roof and rectangular massing, Classical Revival entry, and six-0ver-six double-hung sash windows.
<br />Character~fefining exterior features of the McGowan House thaf should be preserved include, but may not be limited to:
<br />sheathing (siding) and mate»a1s (brick); roof configuration and detailing; massing; windows and doors; entry,' architectural
<br />defails (comer boards, entry pilasters and entablature); and mature trees.
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