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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />KIMES HOUSE <br />2215 North Victoria Drive <br />Santa Ana, CA 92706 <br />NAME <br />Kimes House <br />REF. NO. <br />ADDRESS <br />2215 North Victoria Drive <br />CITY <br />Santa Ana <br />ZIP <br />92706 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />YEAR BUILT <br />1961 <br />LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Landmark <br />HISTORIC DISTRICT <br />N/A <br />NEIGHBORHOOD <br />Floral Park <br />CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION <br />3 <br />CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE <br />5S1 <br />Location: ❑ Not for Publication ® Unrestricted <br />❑ Prehistoric ® Historic ❑ Both <br />ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Tiki <br />Tiki architecture is fanciful architecture that incorporates Polynesian themes. The word tiki refers to large wood and stone <br />sculptures and carvings found in the Polynesian islands. Tiki buildings are often decorated with imitation tiki and other <br />romanticized details borrowed from the South Seas. When soldiers returned to the United States after World War Il, they <br />brought home stories about life in the South Seas. The best - selling books Kan -Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl and Tales of the <br />South Pacific by James A. Mitchener heightened interest in all things tropical. Hotels and restaurants incorporated <br />Polynesian themes to suggest an aura of romance. Polynesia n- themed, or tiki, buildings proliferated in California and then <br />throughout the United States. The Polynesia fad reached its height in about 1959, when Hawaii became part of the United <br />States. By then, commercial tiki architecture had taken on a variety of flashy Goodie details. Also, some mainstream <br />architects were incorporating abstract tiki shapes into streamlined modernist design. Tiki architecture has many of these <br />features: Tikis and carved beams, lava rock, imitation bamboo details, shells and coconuts used as ornamentation, real <br />and imitation palm trees, imitation thatched roofs, A -fram shapes and extremely steep pitched roof, and waterfalls. <br />SUMMARY /CONCLUSION: <br />The Kimes House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 3 as it appears to <br />be eligible to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the California State Register, has a cultural <br />significance to the city, and has a unique architectural significance.Code, Section 30 -2.2). <br />EXPLANATION OF CODES: <br />• California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance <br />Series # 7, "How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources," September 4, 2001.) <br />3: It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or <br />represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values. <br />• California Register Status Code: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, December 8, 2003.) <br />5S1: Contributor to a district determined eligible for the National Register by consensus through Section <br />106 process. Listed in the California Register. <br />4 �� . - <br />