{"nrhp_refnum":"77000320","name":"Howe-Waffle House and Carriage House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Sycamore and Civic Center Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Santa Ana","county":"Orange County","state":"CA","lat":33.75056060400004,"lon":-117.86635807999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A redwood late Victorian house and carriage house built in 1889 in Santa Ana, Orange County, California, designed by George Stoughton. Both were moved in 1975 two blocks from 7th and Bush Streets to the corner of Sycamore Street and Civic Center Drive.","why_significant":"The house was the home and office of Dr. Willella Earhart Howe, the first woman doctor in Orange County, and her husband Dr. Alvin Jared Howe, who was Santa Ana's second mayor. It is also described as a highly representative upper middle class late Victorian home combining Queen Anne form with restrained Eastlake detailing. The nomination calls it the most important surviving structure tied to Dr. Willella Waffle.","narrative":"Built in 1889 in Santa Ana, this twelve-room redwood house served as the home and medical office of Dr. Willella Earhart Howe and her husband, Dr. Alvin Jared Howe. Willella Howe was the first woman doctor in Orange County, traveled by horse and carriage to see patients, and let expectant mothers stay in the upstairs bedrooms or the carriage house apartment when hospitals were full. Alvin Howe served as Santa Ana's second mayor in 1888-1889. Designed by George Stoughton, the house combines Queen Anne form with restrained Eastlake detailing. It has a turret and cupola, dentiled cornices, a scalloped gable, a circular porch, and leaded and stained glass. Street widening for Civic Center Drive threatened it with demolition, so the city took ownership and moved the house and carriage house in 1975 to a site near the Old County Courthouse. There, the plan called for a museum in the doctor's former office and treatment rooms.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"George Stoughton","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Queen Anne with restrained Eastlake detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated good but altered and moved; exterior needs paint. Moved in 1975 to a Heritage Square site, with landscaping incomplete. The City of Santa Ana owns it, and a preservation society planned a museum and offices.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.331543-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/77000320.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000320/ce35cda710-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000320/ce35cda710-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cbl62","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howe-Waffle_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cbl62</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howe-Waffle_House.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84000438","name":"Downtown Santa Ana Historic Districts (North, Government/Institutional and South, Retail)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/downtown-santa-ana-historic-districts-north-government-institutional-and-south-r-84000438/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860246","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howe-Waffle_House_and_Carriage_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14682392"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/orange-county/howe-waffle-house-and-carriage-house-77000320/"}