Kellogg House (Santa Ana, California)

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3101 West Harvard Street
Santa Ana, CA 92704

Hiram Clay and Helen Kellogg built this house at 122 South Orange Avenue in 1898. Home to succeeding generations of Kelloggs, the house stood at the corner of South Orange and Walnut until 1980, when it was purchased and moved to its present site by the Santa Ana Unified School District.

Born in 1855 in northern California, Hiram Clay Kellogg moved with his family to a ranch south of Anaheim in 1869. He was educated at Wilson College in Wilmington, graduating with a degree in civil engineering in 1879. Over the next 40 years, he distinguished himself as an engineer in California, Arizona, and Hawaii, becoming, amongst other achievements, the first City Engineer of Santa Ana. His early work included laying out vineyards in Anaheim, Placentia, and Pasadena. In 1883 he surveyed the townsite of Elsinore, followed a few years later by a survey of Corona. At various times he was the engineer for the Anaheim Union Water Company, the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, and the Newport Protection District. He was elected as Orange County Surveyor in 1894. Out of state work included supervision of the construction of a dam at Gila Bend, Arizona, and construction of two reservoirs in Hawaii. Another venture was the design, construction, and operation of the railroad from San Bernardino to Riverside. Kellogg conducted much of his business out of his office in the southeast corner of his house. H. C. Kellogg died in 1921. Married in 1895, Helen Kellogg survived her husband for over four decades, dying in the room he had used as his office in 1963. The family retained ownership of the house until 1980.

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