Northside - City of Riverside

Orange Street (formerly 9, then 549 Orange Street) on the west side of Orange Street
between 5 th and 6 th Streets in the Mile Square (1908 Sanborn Map). According to
Sanborn Maps, this residence was constructed sometime between February 1895 and
1908, and the original wrap around porch (no longer extant) shown on the 1908
Sanborn indicates that the residence may have been constructed before the turn of
the century when Colonial Revival and Classical examples seem less influenced by
their Victorian neighbors. Unfortunately, along with the modification to the porch,
the rear has been altered and the original wood siding has been replaced with vinyl.
This house is designated a City Structure of Merit (#192) and, along with its three
neighbors to the south (2743, 2759, and 2791 Orange Street), is owned and managed
by Whiteside Manor, an organization that provides residential substance abuse
treatment centers.
Property Types
Property types most closely associated with early settlement on the Northside
include agriculture/citrus-related buildings and features such as the single-family
farm or grove house, though urban examples likely not associated with large-scale
agricultural production are also extant in the survey area. Many extant examples
concentrated south of SR-60 represent the architectural expression that both ushered
in the Victorian Era and also transitioned from it with late Gothic Revival, Queen
Anne, Shingle, and Folk Victorian, and early Colonial Revival and Classical Revival
styles. Wood barns and stables, groves, fields, packinghouses, and canneries
associated with agricultural production are not believed to be extant in the survey
area. Two orange trees are extant on the property located at 2750 Orange Street and
appear to be mature, but not old enough to be associated with grove development
before the first half of the 20 th century.
Although the former railroad right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Company is
located within the survey area, and numerous railroad-related buildings, structures,
and object were once extant, no stations, buildings, structures, tracks, spurs, signs, or
other related objects or features have been identified within the survey area.
The Lower Canal once crossed Strong, Orange, Main, and Market Streets within the
survey area. Canal-related resources would include flumes, ditches, concrete-lined
canals, pump houses, wells, weir boxes, and bridges, but no canal-related resources
of this period were identified within areas of public access in the survey area. A
portion of University Wash, an above and belowground concrete lined flood control
channel of the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, is
extant in the survey area, north of SR-60, but was constructed in 1977 and 1980.
Though outside of the scope of this survey, further study may prove this resource
significant for its association with Riverside’s and/or the Northside’s history of
water access and control or with post-WWII community planning and development.
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