{"nrhp_refnum":"83001222","name":"Smith and Clark Brothers Ranch and Grounds","other_names":["Willard Smith Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"18922 Santiago Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Villa Park","county":"Orange County","state":"CA","lat":33.81422159400006,"lon":-117.80152277899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-acre ranch house property with four outbuildings and landscaped grounds at 18922 Santiago Boulevard in Villa Park, Orange County, California. The wood frame main house was built in 1881 for the Smith family.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the ranch as one of the last remnants of the early settlement of the Villa Park area. It is tied to the Smith and Clark brothers' citrus and horticultural work, including the first successful citrus stock at the Point Loma Theosophical community. It also reflects Willard Smith's long career in the citrus industry and county government. Reviewers accepted it for agriculture and early settlement, and found the plantings supportive of its agricultural importance.","narrative":"This single-story wood frame ranch house in Villa Park, Orange County, was built in 1881 and sits on a one-acre parcel buffered by hedges, block walls and heavy landscaping. The slightly L-shaped house has a plain gable roof, wide horizontal siding, and tall windows with rounded arched sashes and bracketed hoods. Four outbuildings, a wash house, Bear House, gym and garage, share its scale and white paint. Mature palms, a Moreton Bay fig, oaks and pepper trees frame the grounds. The property was home to James M. Smith's family, including stepsons Orange and Abbott Clark and son Willard Smith. It is the remainder of a once 62-acre orchard where the brothers carried out horticultural experiments, and it supplied the first successful citrus stock for the Point Loma community. Willard Smith led the Villa Park Orchards Association and served on the Orange County Board of Supervisors from 1922 to 1955. The house remains with the family that built it.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900- (specific date 1881)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian, simple pioneer-era wood frame","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site; owned by the same family that built it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.441394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/83001222.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860340","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/orange-county/smith-and-clark-brothers-ranch-and-grounds-83001222/"}