{"nrhp_refnum":"81000163","name":"Ainsworth, Lewis, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"414 E. Chapman Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Orange","county":"Orange County","state":"CA","lat":33.78801508600003,"lon":-117.84966912099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-03-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-room wood-frame bungalow-style house at 414 East Chapman Avenue in Orange, California, built in 1910 and designed by Ina Ainsworth Butler for her father, Lewis Ainsworth.","why_significant":"The house is locally significant for commerce, settlement and architecture. It is tied to Lewis Ainsworth, an early 20th century businessman in Orange. It is a remnant of the post-pioneer settlement pattern near the Orange Plaza. It is also a notable example of the transition from Victorian to bungalow residential design.","narrative":"Built in 1910 at 414 East Chapman Avenue in Orange, California, this six-room wood-frame house was designed by Ina Ainsworth Butler, an artist, for her father, Lewis Ainsworth. Ainsworth was a Vermont-born businessman who joined the 1849 Gold Rush, later farmed in Iowa and Kansas, and settled in Orange in 1900. There he organized the town's first planing mill and built the Ainsworth Building on the Plaza Square. The house is symmetrical, with three gables over a curved front veranda and sheet-metal scrollwork made to resemble wood. It combines bungalow simplicity with Colonial Revival touches and Victorian-era ornament. It also represents the post-pioneer growth of Orange beyond the original Plaza core, in an area now mostly given over to modern development. The City of Orange acquired the property in 1976 and a citizens' committee is overseeing its restoration as a museum of 1910 Orange.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Ina Ainsworth Butler","architectural_style":"Bungalow, with Colonial Revival elements and Victorian-influenced detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Orange since November 1976; being restored for use as a community museum, with the roof replaced and some stolen original features duplicated or replaced.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.645208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/81000163.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000163/c803a7293c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000163/c803a7293c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Quadpus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ainsworth_House_2007.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Quadpus</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ainsworth_House_2007.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"97000617","name":"Old Towne Orange Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/old-towne-orange-historic-district-97000617/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860157","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Ainsworth_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683086"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/orange-county/ainsworth-lewis-house-81000163/"}