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State of California —The Resources Agency Primary # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 3 of 4 Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Taylor -Oglesby House *Recorded by Leslie J. Neumann, SAIC *Date December 31, 2003 IM Continuation ❑ Update *B14, Significance (continued): numbers, beginning in 1908 and continuing through 1918. In 1922, Thomas W. Oglesby, a paving contractor, his wife Susie, and children Rebecca and Thomas Junior were living at 423 Edgewood. In 1927, this house became 2410 North Valencia. It is not clear if the /rouse was actually moved to make way for an extension of Valencia or if it was merely renumbered when the street was subdivided. The present owners, Wendell Cole and family, have resided in the house since 1959. Mc Cole's grandfather, Porter Charles Edmons, was one of the pioneer families in Orange County and was a fanner on Fruit Street, Mc Edmons delivered fresh groceries to both of the Taylor Houses in the early 1900s by a horse drawn buck board. The Taylor -Oglesby House is located in the Park Santiago neighborhood, near the present northern city limits of Santa Ana and substantially north of the original city core. The neighborhood is bounded by Santiago Creek and Pads on the north, East Seventeenth Street on the south, North Lincoln Avenue on the east, North Main Street on the west,and the 1.5 freeway on the southwest. In large part these boundaries reflect the transportation lines that were constructed towards the and of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Pacific Electric interurban railroad ran up Main Street; the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe tracks followed Lincoln; and the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way mirrored thefreeway route. This area remained primarily agricultural well into the 1920s, As of 1905, the city directories listed around twenty households on East Santa Clara, Twentieth Street, "C Street" (now North Santiago Street), North Bush Street and North Main Avenue, the only streets in the area at the time. The vast majority of the residents were ranchers. By 1911, the number of households had increased to about thirty, and Edgewood Road and Valencia Street had been partially laid out, but most residents continued to list "rancher" or "fruit grower" as their occupation in the city directories. This pattern of land use was evident on the 1912 plat map of the City, which illustrated two small, Craftsman era subdivisions along Bush north of Santa Clara and on Valencia and Poinsettia south of Twentieth Street, with the remaining area divided into larger, agricultural parcels held by approximately forty landowners. While the area east of Santiago Street was not subdivided until after the mid -1920s, most of the present day streets west of Santiago had been laid out when the City was mapped in 1923. Ranching continued to be the most prevalent occupation in the neighborhood, but increasing numbers of professionals, small business owners, merchants, and people in service professions such as painters, electricians; and carpenters made their homes in the western half of the neighborhood during the 1920s and 1930s. The area also attracted several city and county officials, including the City Attorney (Z. B. West, Jr., 321 East Santa Clara Avenue), County Supervisor, First district (C. H. Chapman, 2315 North Santiago Street), County Surveyor (E. H, Irwin, 2407 North Santiago Sireet), and County Auditor (William C. Jerome, 2422 Poinsettia Street). By April 1942, when the Sanborn Company first mapped the western half of the area, most of the lots had been unproved with single-family homes, many in the revival styles popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Subsequent devefoprnent of the eastern half of the neighborhood and infill construction in the western half displayed the simplified ranch style that emerged following World War 11. The Taylor -Oglesby House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its representation of the distinguishing characteristics of the Classic Box variant of the Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as "Landmark" because it "hes a unique architectural significance" as a well -detailed and highly intact example of the Classic Box variant of the Colonial Revival style. Notable in this regard are the box -like massing, hipped roof with dormer, Tuscan columns, and highly ornamental treatment of the windows and brackets. All original and restored exterior features of the Taylor -Oglesby House are considered character -defining and should be preserved. These features include, but may not be limited to: sheathing (clapboard); roof configuration and detailing; massing; windows and doors; porch; architectural details (porch supports, window and door surrounds, brackets, etc.); and any original landscaping. *812. References (continued); Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An LaLq�lonedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998. Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated Histary. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994. McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Piekl Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. National Register Bulletin 18A. "How to Complete the National Register Registration Form." Washington DC: National Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the interior, 1991. Office of Historic Preservation. "Instructions for Recording Historical Resources." Sacramento: March 1998. Whiffoi, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989. Park Santiago Neighborhood Association. 'The Gingerbread Lane Holiday Home Tow• 2002." Brochure. Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society. "Home and Garden Tour May 18, 1998." Brochure. DPR 523L 25F-95