tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64525766356886275892023-07-17T21:58:51.646-07:00Tustin ToursThe Tustin Area Historical Society (TAHS)TAHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376576879113012129noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6452576635688627589.post-80055087367960260612010-03-07T21:30:00.000-08:002010-03-08T12:25:51.407-08:00Take Main Street to Tustin History...a walking tour.<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#660000;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>Your walk back into history starts here.</em><br /></span></span></strong><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color:#000099;">1)</span></strong> Parking Structure - 1982 / (<strong><span style="color:#660000;">Park Here</span></strong>) <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=150+West+Main+Street,+Tustin+Ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.554089,69.257812&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=150+W+Main+St,+Tustin,+Orange,+California+92780&z=16">Map</a><br />Constructed as a joint venture by the City of Tustin and the<br />Gfeller Development Company.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">2)</span></strong> 228 West Main Street - Stevens House /<br />Pioneer Sherman Stevens home was built of redwood shipped from Eureka.<br />A classic Queen Anne Victorian with many interesting archi­tectural features.<br />Remained in Stevens family until 1980. Now an office; surrounding office buildings<br />replaced avocado grove in 1982.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">3)</span></strong> 320 West Main Street - Pankey Residence / 1928<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">California Monterey style; some walls 18 inches thick. Built for Will Ferrey.<br />Tree seen over roof in rear is native sycamore from Colum­bus Tustin's time.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">4)</span></strong> 330 West Main Street - Artz House / 1914<br />Home of Charles O. Artz family, 1914·1942. Good example of bungalow style:<br />note shed dormer, massive porch posts, wide windows and horizontal beam.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">5)</span></strong> 400 West Main Street - Leihy House / circa 1915<br />Interesting example of Craftsman bungalow: note front-facing gable, exposed<br />ratters, front door lights, heavy posts and large, horizontal beam<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">6)</span></strong> 420 West Main Street - Vance House / 1887<br />Built of redwood for George Case. Banker Charles Vance's family lived here,<br />1917 - 1973. Queen Anne Victorian: exhibits typical variety of pattern, gabled<br />roof with widow's walk and cresting, sawn work, decorative bands. carved<br />brackets, fish scale siding and spin­dle balusters<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">7)</span></strong> 430 West Main Street - Snow House / 1887<br />Built of redwood for Alonzo Kendall. Owned since 1940's by memo ber of the<br />pioneer Snow family. Dormered roof line changed after 1933 earthquake.<br />Typical wrap·around porch remains, but Queen Anne furniture-like posts and<br />baluster have been replaced. Red· wood paneling accents inside.<br />Note corner windows.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">8)</span></strong> 520 West Main Street / 1930<br />Prominent builder, William Bowman, constructed this English Tudor for<br />Roy Browning.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">9)</span></strong> 410 Pacific Street<br />Typical of Mediterranean Revival style popular throughout Southern<br />California in 1920's. Note several native sycamores next door south at 440 Pacific.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">10)</span></strong> 630 West Main Street - Leinburger House / 1888<br />Victorian cottage built for George Downs. Banker William Lein­burger family<br />has owned it since 1920.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">11)</span></strong> TustinAcres (West Main Street) / 1962<br />Tustin Acres represents 1960's when two freeways sliced Tustin groves taking<br />many lovely old homes. This was site of the Lucius Allen 20-acre grove.<br />Allen house was moved (See No. 12).<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">12)</span></strong> 665 West Main Street - Allen House / circa 1881<br />Built for Nelson Vanderlip; moved here in 1962. Modified Italianate, practical<br />style of Victorian period, characterized by tall, narrow, flat­arched first floor<br />windows, square-pillared porch and square bay windows.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">13)</span></strong> 555 West Main Street-Advent Christian Church / 1881,1945<br />Tustin's first church, original sanctuary still in use; note plaque; most original<br />pews have now been replaced. Parsonage, next door, built in 1945 with<br />surplus lumber from the hangar base. Modified Cape Cod revival of shingle style.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">14)</span></strong> 330 California Street / 1944<br />Built by Ray Aunger, former owner of Tustin Hardware, using what- ever<br />materials available during World War II.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">15)</span></strong> 455 West Main Street / 1904<br />Built for Mrs. Lysander Utt, mother of Tustin developer, C.E. Utt. Originally<br />attached to Utt's home (NE corner, Main and EI Camino Real); moved here in 1925.<br />Note furniture-like posts.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">16)</span></strong> 415 West Main Street / 1950<br />Built by a civil engineer using his rock collection gathered while on jobs in the<br />Rocky Mountain states.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">17)</span></strong> A Street Detour<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">A.</span></strong> 302 South A: Purchased by George Hubbard about 1880. Later, enlarged.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">B.</span></strong> 230 South A: Built by Diffenderfer about 1900; note:small grove.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">C.</span></strong> 200 South A: Built in 1900 by William Shatto.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">D.</span></strong> 180 South A: Built by W.W. Martin in eariy 1880s<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">18)</span></strong> 345 West Main Street - Means House / 1905<br />Built by P.W. Swartz on Tustin High School property. It was the home of first<br />principal, J.W. Means. Moved here in mid-1920's. Remodeled, but still features<br />colonial revival roof line and some late-Victorian touches.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">19)</span></strong> 350 South B Street - Hewes House / 1881<br />Built for prominent California pioneer, David Hewes. Note plaque at corner<br />by sidewalk. Roof line raised about 1920 by Benjamin Bes­wick, then<br />superintendent of schools, to create upstairs rooms for boarding teachers.<br />House combines Victorian Eastlake, Italianate and Greek revival features.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">20)</span></strong> 225 West Main Street - Tustin Presbyterian Church / 1928, 1953, 1966<br />Organized 1882, Tustin Presbyterian Church replaced their Vic­torian chapel<br />in 1928 with this Spanish colonial revival (Builder: William Bowman).<br />Additions made in 1953 and 1966.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">21)</span></strong> C Street Detour<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">A.</span></strong> Original school bell, cast 1883.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">B.</span></strong> 245 South C: Tustin Blacksmith Shop (1912) one of two remain­ing in Orange County.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">C.</span></strong> 305 South C: An 1880s board-and-batten California version of Vermont<br />"Saltbox" that was Fannie Tustin's home.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">D.</span></strong> 335 South C: McCharles House built in 1885 by Tustin Township Justice, D.L. McCharles<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">22)</span></strong> 145 West Main Street / 1982<br />Another Spanish echo, this office building replaced the World War I vintage<br />building that started as Oscar Leihy's Garage.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">23)</span></strong> 115 West Main Street - Mrs B's (formerly Tustin Hardware) / circa 1913<br />Built by Ed Utt for Alton Alderman and Fred Currier, first owners of the store.<br />Note: Italianate cornice lentils and brackets. Present park­ing lot is site of old<br />Tustin Bank, razed 1963.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">24)</span></strong> 397 EI Camino Real- Knights of Pythias Building / 1925<br />This Italian Romanesque building became center of much social, fraternal and<br />commercial activity. Tustin's first City Hall was located in one of the rear stores.<br /><a href="http://tustinhistory.com/museum-tour.htm">Visit the Museum and learn more about Tustin's history.</a> Map<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">25)</span></strong> 195 East Main Street - Utt Juice Company Building / 1907<br />Built by Ed Utt. these buildings housed Utt Juice Company from 1920 to 1973.<br />Replaced in 2008 with new building.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">26)</span></strong> 235 East Main Street - Tustin Water Works / 1957<br />None of the original Water Works facilities remain here. Established in 1887 by<br />C.F. Willard and Henry Adams, Ed Uti's family owned it from 1897 until acquired<br />by City of Tustin in 1982.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">27)</span></strong> Tustin Civic Center / 1974<br />Designed by A. Quincy Jones to be a "functional, accessible, inexpensive building<br />using materials indigenous to the area." Clifton C. Miller Community Room named<br />in memory of former city council­man.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">28)</span></strong> 220 East Main Street - Saddleback Chapel / 1963<br />Tustin's first mortuary. Buitt on site of orange grove planted by Sam Tustin, son of<br />founder Columbus Tustin.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">29)</span></strong> 160 East Main Street / circa 1880<br />Frontier style; built on SE corner of Main and El Camino Real and moved to<br />this site in 1924. Building has been a drug store, pool hall, meat market, home,<br />shoe repair, sheet metal shop, now <a href="http://oldtownflooring.com/">Old Town Flooring</a></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">30)</span></strong> 401 EI Camino Real - Cox Building / 1924<br />Built by Ed Kaiser for Sam Tustin. Ed and Leola Cox operated Tustin Food Center<br />here for 30 years. Style similar to Knights of Pythias building.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">31)</span></strong> 100 West Main Street - Roach Building / 1974<br />Built on site of Lysander Utt Pioneer Store.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">32)</span></strong> EI Camino Real Detour<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">A.</span></strong> 434 EI Camino Real - Jabberwocky: Built in 1880s for Tustin's first doctor; in<br />1930s was Crawford's Frock Shop (voile frocks $1.49); note single-wall<br />construction; frontier style.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">B.</span></strong> Jamestown Village shopping center: Built in 1961 by C.T. Gil­breath,<br />little church seats congregation of eight.<br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">C.</span></strong> 560 EI Camino Real - Tustin Garage: Established in 1915 by<br />Will Huntley (long-time mayor) and Nick Gulick.<br />Now the <a href="http://www.beachpitbbq.com/locations/tustin-garage.aspx">The Beach Pit BBQ</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">33)</span></strong> 130-140 West Main Street / </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">circa 1914<br />These shop buildings date back to about 1914 when they housed the post office,<br />drug store and barbershop. Note plaque marking site of Wells Fargo Express office.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">34)</span></strong> 148 West Main Street / circa 1920<br />This building is on site of Columbus Tustin's store and upstairs living quarters.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">35)</span></strong> 150 West Main Street - Artz Building / 1914 / <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=150+West+Main+Street,+Tustin+Ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.554089,69.257812&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=150+W+Main+St,+Tustin,+Orange,+California+92780&z=16">Map</a><br />Sam Tustin had this neo-classic building constructed for Charles O. Artz General<br />Merchandise Store. In early 1920s a burglar acciden­tally died here during Artz's<br />semi-annual cyanide fumigation. Now a restaurant, one can enjoy lunch under<br />the Ionic-columned portico <a href="http://www.rutabegorz.com/">Rutabegorz Restaurant</a> </span></span></span>TAHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376576879113012129noreply@blogger.com3