The Henry C. Downes House (1920)
Built in 1916 for James A. Driffle. This is a side gable, two story Greek Revival house with Doric columns, double sash, symmetrically-even paned windows with shutters, narrow line of transom and side lights around the front door and clapboard siding. The entry porch is supported by round prominent columns.
Map (34.20384, -119.18457)
*The Ventura County Assessor lists this house as being built in 1920.
(Note that the current address is 140 but the historic document application (and some old newspaper articles) show it as 150.)
STATS: 2 story, 5 bedrooms, 3 bath, 2948 s.f. on an 11,325 s.f lot, Depth Footage 233′, Ground Floor s.f: 1,508
Parcel number: 2020041110
Last sold: 5/07/1975 for $75,000
Prior Owners (or residents): Henry Downes; Emma G. Driffill (1920); Mr & Mrs Eugene Diedrich (July 1920); Robert H. McGrath (?-1934); Mr & Mrs Charles Meyer (1934-1939); J.W. Dodge (1939); Peter Fox (1947); Charlotte Stevens (1957); Lilian Fox (1966)
Current Owners (or residents): Stacy T Biggs
Deaths in the house: Charlotte M Stevens 9/12/1957
Trivia: Emma Driffill was deeded the land (from Aranetta Hill, who owned all of the land under the Historic District originally) at parcel 28 (where the current convent stands in the culdesac at north G Street, where she planned to start a “model poultry plant with 2000 hens in January 1918. (Oxnard Daily-Courier 1/29/1918)
