Stevens House
Probably no other residence in Old Town Tustin has been owned by the same family for as many years as the home Sherman Stevens built for his bride, Martha Snow, in 1887. Stevens, a wealthy businessman and partner in the San Joaquin Fruit Co. with C. E. Utt and James Irvine, hired two Los Angeles architects, Costerigan and Merithew, to design the Queen Anne cottage. The home stood among several acres of oranges and avocados with a garden of exotic plants and trees and a large aviary filled with exotic birds. Their son, Horace, became the eventual owner and kept the property until the late 1970s. The house, now part of an office complex known as Stevens Square, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Tustin, Orange County
Images by Andrew Schmidt