Big Sur
USS Macon Airship Remains
DATE DESIGNATED: January 29, 2010
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 09001274
LOCATION: Big Sur vicinityy, address restricted
DESCRIPTION:
Big Sur Nation's only documented remains of a rigid airship, which was
launched in 1933 and sank after crash landing in 1935, contributing to
the cancellation of the U.S. Navy's rigid airship program.
Joseph W. Post House
DATE DESIGNATED: September 12, 1985
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 85002196
LOCATION: California Highway One
DESCRIPTION:
House dating to 1867 of one
of the first American families to homestead the Big Sur coast, with a New
England-style saltbox wing built in 1877. Now part of the Ventana Inn resort.
Point Sur Light Station
DATE DESIGNATED: September 3, 1991
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 91001097
LOCATION: Morro Rock on Point Sur about half a mile west of California Highway One
DESCRIPTION:
Lighthouse complex
established in 1899, particularly noted for retaining all of its major
original buildings and for its Romanesque Revival architecture.
Now preserved within Point Sur State Historic Park.
Deetjen's Big Sur Inn
DATE DESIGNATED: September 13, 1990
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 90001464
LOCATION: California Highway One north of Castro Center
DESCRIPTION:
One of the first visitor
accommodations on the Carmel-San Simeon Highway, whose rustic ambience
shaped recreational development of the Big Sur. Nomination includes five
original buildings constructed 1936–1941
Carmel
Robinson Jeffers House
DATE DESIGNATED: October 10, 1975
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 75000444
LOCATION: 26304 Ocean View Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
Longtime home of poet Robinson
Jeffers (1887–1962), featuring a granite masonry house and 40-foot
tower he largely hand built beginning in 1919. Now a
non-profit historic attraction known as Tor House and Hawk Tower.
Carmel Mission
DATE DESIGNATED: October 15, 1966
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 66000214
LOCATION: Rio Road
DESCRIPTION:
Exemplary church dating to
1793—though extensively reconstructed and renovated beginning in
1884—of a mission established by Junípero Serra in 1770. More
properly called Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo.
Carmel Valley Vicinity
Carmel Valley Road-Boronda Road Eucalyptus Tree Row
DATE DESIGNATED: January 10, 2008
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 07001352
LOCATION: Carmel Valley Rd. & Boronda Road
DESCRIPTION:
Prominent and locally
unusual streetside row of Eucalyptus globulus trees, planted sometime
between 1874 and 1881 during the species' peak popularity in California
for landscaping.
Berwick Manor and Orchard
DATE DESIGNATED: November 17, 1977
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 77000309
LOCATION: Northwest of Carmel Valley
DESCRIPTION:
Farmstead acquired in
1869 by Edward Berwick, a prolific writer and educator as well as a
scientific farmer.
Carmel
Whalers Cabin
DATE DESIGNATED: May 9, 2007
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 07000406
LOCATION: Point Lobos State Natural Reserve, about 4 miles south of Carmel
DESCRIPTION:
Cabin whose site may yield
evidence of an early ethnic community established around 1850 by either
Portuguese whalers or Chinese fishermen. Now a museum within Point Lobos
State Natural Reserve.
Sunset Center
DATE DESIGNATED: January 9, 1998
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 97001604
LOCATION: San Carlos Street between 8th and 10th streets
DESCRIPTION:
Public school whose 1931 auditorium served as Carmel's primary artistic,
civic, and social venue. Also noted for its Collegiate Gothic architecture.
Outlands in the Eighty Acres
DATE DESIGNATED: March 23, 1989
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 89000228
LOCATION: 25800 Hatton
DESCRIPTION:
1925 Tudor Revival house also
known as the Flanders Mansion, significant as a work of architect Henry
Higby Gutterson and for its innovative construction with precast concrete
blocks. Now preserved within Mission Trail Park.
Castroville
Castroville Japanese Language School
DATE DESIGNATED: October 10, 1995
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 95001127
LOCATION: 11199 Geil Street
DESCRIPTION:
1936 multi-purpose facility of a Japanese
American farming community whose 1942 abandonment and 1944–45 use as a hostel
symbolize the loss of civil rights at the beginning and end of Japanese
American internment.
Gonzales
Gabilan Lodge No. 372-Independent Order of Odd Fellows
DATE DESIGNATED: October 2, 1986
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 86002813
LOCATION: 117 Fourth Street
DESCRIPTION:
1914 Independent Order of
Odd Fellows hall, noted for its architectural and social prominence in Gonzales.
Community Church of Gonzales
DATE DESIGNATED: September 15, 1983
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 83001210
LOCATION: 301 4th Street
DESCRIPTION:
One of Monterey County's
oldest functioning churches, a prominent 1884 Carpenter Gothic
church exemplifying a type common to late-19th-century small California towns.
Greenfield
Site Number 4 Mnt 85
DATE DESIGNATED: October 29, 1976
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 76000502
LOCATION: Greenfield vicinity, address restricted
Jolon
Tidball Store
DATE DESIGNATED: December 12, 1976
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 76000503
LOCATION: Jolon ROAD
DESCRIPTION:
General store established in 1890,
the only standing commercial building of Jolon, once a major
community of southern Monterey County.
Jose Mario Gil Adobe
DATE DESIGNATED: June 7, 1974
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 74000537
LOCATION: Hunter Liggett Military Reservation
DESCRIPTION:
1865 rancho adobe exemplifying the
architecture and cattle ranching economy of the Salinas Valley prior
to irrigation-dependent vegetable farming.
San Antonio de Padua Mission
DATE DESIGNATED: April 26, 1976
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 76000504
LOCATION: NW of Jolon off Del Venturi Road, Jolon vicinity
DESCRIPTION:
Third of the Spanish missions
in California and one of the few to retain its rural character.
Founded in 1771, with a church dating to 1810.
Dutton Hotel, Stagecoach Station
DATE DESIGNATED: October 14, 1971
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 71000166
LOCATION: King City-Jolon Road, Jolon vicinity
DESCRIPTION:
Ruins of an adobe inn
established in 1849, a major stagecoach stop on El Camino Real and nucleus
of the town of Jolon.
King City
King City Joint Union High School Auditorium
DATE DESIGNATED: July 23, 1991
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 91000917
LOCATION: North Mildred Avenue, northwest of the junction with Broadway Street
DESCRIPTION:
Prominent 1939 auditorium significant
for its Streamline Modern design by architect Robert Stanton and ornamentation
by sculptor Jo Mora.
Milpitas Ranchhouse
DATE DESIGNATED: December 2, 1977
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 77000310
LOCATION: South of King City
DESCRIPTION:
1930 ranch house designed
by Julia Morgan in Mission Revival style for William Randolph Hearst's
northern estate. Now a hotel and recreation facility within Fort
Hunter Liggett known as The Hacienda.
Cueva Pintada
DATE DESIGNATED: February 13, 1975
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 75000445
LOCATION: King City vicinity, address restricted
DESCRIPTION:
Prehistoric rock shelter covered with white, red,
black, and ochre pictographs by Salinan people. Protected within
Fort Hunter Liggett but generally off-limits.
Lucia
Kirk Creek Campground
DATE DESIGNATED: December 31, 1974
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 74000538)
LOCATION: Lucia vicinity, address restricted
DESCRIPTION:
The best preserved and documented archaeological site
dating to the Middle Period of the Big Sur.
Marina
Fort Ord Station Veterinary Hospital
DATE DESIGNATED: June 17, 2014
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 14000305
LOCATION: 2872 5th Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
This six-building veterinary
hospital for horses and mules of the cavalry and field artillery
captures the final phase in the evolution of horse-dependent warfare.
Built in January 1941 on the assumption that horses would continue
playing an important role in the U.S. Army, the SVH was converted t
o other purposes when the U.S. horse soldier was dismounted in 1942.
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Monterey
U.S. Customhouse
DATE DESIGNATED: October 15, 1966
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 66000217
LOCATION: Calle Principal at Decatur Street
DESCRIPTION:
Custom house built in stages
1827–1846, nominated as a leading example of Monterey Colonial
architecture applied to a public building. Now a museum property
of Monterey State Historic Park.
Stevenson House
DATE DESIGNATED: January 7, 1972
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 72000239
LOCATION: Houston Street between Pearl and Webster Streets
DESCRIPTION:
Boarding house called the French
Hotel where Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived in autumn 1879,
writing and courting his future wife. Now a museum property of
Monterey State Historic Park.
Royal Presidio Chapel
DATE DESIGNATED: October 15, 1966
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 66000216
LOCATION: 550 Church Street
DESCRIPTION:
California's only surviving presidio
chapel and Monterey's only surviving 18th-century building,
dating to 1794. Also known as the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo.
Lou Ellen Parmelee House
DATE DESIGNATED: January 7, 1998
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 97001633
LOCATION: 570 Archer Street
DESCRIPTION:
Monterey's leading residential
example of high Queen Anne style, built in 1896, with finely crafted elements
like interior plaster decoration.
Pacific Biological Laboratories
DATE DESIGNATED: December 29, 1994
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 94001498
LOCATION: 800 Cannery Row
DESCRIPTION:
1937 laboratory of marine biologist
Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), friend and collaborator of author John Steinbeck
and frequent host to Monterey's intelligentsia.
Monterey Old Town Historic District
DATE DESIGNATED: April 15, 1970
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 70000137
DESCRIPTION:
Several dozen buildings dating to
Monterey's years as the Spanish and Mexican capital of Alta California
and the major European stronghold on the West Coast. District
includes Monterey State Historic Park.
Josiah Merritt Adobe
DATE DESIGNATED: November 22, 1977
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 77000311
LOCATION: 386 Pacific Street
DESCRIPTION:
Adobe given a unique Greek Revival
façade in the 1850s, when notable American settler
Josiah Merritt—co-organizer and first judge of Monterey County—moved in.
Now a boutique hotel.
G. T. Marsh and Sons
DATE DESIGNATED: August 8, 2007
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 05001113
LOCATION: 599 Fremont Street
DESCRIPTION:
1927 Asian art gallery significant
for its prominent and unique use of Sichuan-style Chinese architecture.
Larkin House
DATE DESIGNATED: October 15, 1966
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 66000215
LOCATION: 464 Calle Principal
DESCRIPTION:
1835 house of American merchant
Thomas O. Larkin, which combined Spanish Colonial adobe materials with
New England frame construction to originate the Monterey Colonial
architecture style. Now a house museum of Monterey State Historic Park.
James W. Finch House
DATE DESIGNATED: October 19, 1982
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 82000974
LOCATION: 410 Monroe Street
DESCRIPTION:
One of the few intact examples of
early American architecture in Monterey, built in 1870.
Mary C. W. Black Studio House
DATE DESIGNATED: August 24, 1994
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 94001007
LOCATION: 556 Abrego Street
DESCRIPTION:
1930 house and garden wall, a highly intact
residential example of the Monterey substyle of Spanish Colonial Revival
architecture.
El Castillo
DATE DESIGNATED: November 23, 1971
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 71000167
LOCATION: Lower Presidio Historic Park
DESCRIPTION:
Site of a 1792 Spanish fort and a prehistoric shell midden.
Pacific Grove
Trimmer Hill
DATE DESIGNATED: June 28, 1982
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 82002208
LOCATION: 230 6th Street
DESCRIPTION:
1893 house noted for its exemplary Queen
Anne architecture and association with Dr. Oliver Smith Trimmer, who helped
develop Pacific Grove as its long-serving first mayor.
Point Pinos Lighthouse
DATE DESIGNATED: July 14, 1977
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 77000312)
LOCATION: Asilomar Boulevard and Lighthouse Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
The oldest continuously operating lighthouse
on the West Coast, established in 1855. Open for tours.
Gosby House Inn
DATE DESIGNATED: December 2, 1980
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 80000822
LOCATION: 643 Lighthouse Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
1887 inn which evolved architecturally
and commercially, from a vernacular boarding house serving a religious
retreat to a Queen Anne hotel catering to vacationers. Still operating as
a bed & breakfast.
Centrella Hotel
DATE DESIGNATED: October 29, 1982
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 82000973
LOCATION: 612 Central Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
Hotel and cottage complex with four
contributing properties, established in 1889 and expanded in 1892 and 1905,
reflecting Pacific Grove's rapid development as a resort destination.
Frank LaVerne Buck House
DATE DESIGNATED: September 11, 1986
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 86002401
LOCATION: 581 Pine Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
1904 Queen Anne house of Frank Buck
(1849–1931), a local civic leader in the early 20th century. One of Pacific
Grove's few intact large Victorian homes, associated with local architect
Robert C. Gass and builder C.E. Hovey. Now a bed & breakfast.
Asilomar Conference Grounds
DATE DESIGNATED: February 27, 1987
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 87000823
LOCATION: Asilomar Boulevard
DESCRIPTION:
Conference complex with 11
contributing properties, established in 1913. Noted for its associations
with the YWCA, pioneering female architect Julia Morgan, and the resort
industry of the Monterey Peninsula, and for its American Craftsman architecture.
Pajaro
Porter-Vallejo Mansion
DATE DESIGNATED: January 4, 1990
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 89002273
LOCATION: 29 Bishop Street
DESCRIPTION:
Home 1874–1900 of John T. Porter, an influential local financier
and benefactor of Chinese immigrants. Its 1895–99 remodelling is also
significant as an early work of architect William Henry Weeks.
Pebble Beach
Olvida Peñas
DATE DESIGNATED: April 3, 1978
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 78000721
LOCATION: 1061 Majella Road
DESCRIPTION:
1926 house—whose name means "Forget pain"—noted for its singular use
of Mexican vernacular architecture and adherence to the community
planning strictures of Pebble Beach.
Salinas
John Steinbeck House
DATE DESIGNATED: August 8, 2000
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 00000856
LOCATION: 132 Central Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
Birthplace and family home of John Steinbeck (1902–1968), inhabited
by the author off and on up to 1935. Also noted for its Queen Anne
architecture. Now a restaurant and house museum.
B. V. Sargent House
DATE DESIGNATED: October 20, 1980
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 80000824
LOCATION: 154 Central Avenue
DESCRIPTION:
1896 house exemplifying the early Modified Colonial style of architect
William Henry Weeks.
Republic Cafe
DATE DESIGNATED: July 14, 2011
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 11000430
LOCATION: 37 Soledad Street
DESCRIPTION:
Asian restaurant and banquet hall in operation 1942–1988, a rare
surviving commercial building of the Salinas Chinatown.
Sheriff William Joseph Nesbitt House
DATE DESIGNATED: February 19, 1982
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 82002210
LOCATION: 66 Capitol Street
Rare surviving example of the vernacular houses common to California's
latter-19th-century settlement, and home 1881–1933 of a notable local lawman.
Monterey County Jail
DATE DESIGNATED: September 24, 2004
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 04001028
LOCATION: 142 West Alisal Street
DESCRIPTION:
Jail where agricultural labor leader Cesar Chavez was incarcerated
in December 1970, bringing major attention to the United Farm Workers movement.
Monterey County Court House
DATE DESIGNATED: January 8, 2009
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 08000878
LOCATION: 240 Church Street
DESCRIPTION:
1937 courthouse significant as an example of WPA Moderne architecture
and the collaboration of architect Robert Stanton and artist Jo Mora.
Krough House
DATE DESIGNATED: January 18, 1982
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 82002209)
LOCATION: 146 Central Avenue
One of four surviving examples of the Queen Anne houses that characterized
Central Avenue in the 1890s.
Peter J. Bontadelli House
DATE DESIGNATED: July 15, 1980
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 80000823)
LOCATION: 119 Cayuga Street
DESCRIPTION:
Monterey County's only historical example of Second Empire architecture,
built c. 1907. Now known as The Empire House.
Samuel M. Black House
DATE DESIGNATED: September 20, 1984
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 84000911)
LOCATION: 418 Pajaro Street
DESCRIPTION:
1900 house by noted California architect William Henry Weeks;
its design and rare surviving plans document the emergence of his popular
Modified Colonial style. Listing also includes an adjacent 1936 rental cottage.
Rancho Las Palmas
DATE DESIGNATED: November 20, 1978
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 78000722
LOCATION: South of Salinas at 200 River Road
DESCRIPTION:
1891 house of Hiram Corey, one of Monterey County's
most successful stock farmers of the late 19th century. Also noted for
its exemplary Queen Anne style in a rural setting.
Jose Eusebio Boronda Adobe
DATE DESIGNATED: March 20, 1973
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 73000413
LOCATION: Boronda ROAD and W.=EST Laurel Drive
DESCRIPTION:
Rare surviving rancho adobe of the Salinas Valley,
built around 1846 and associated with the influential Boronda family.
Centerpiece of the Boronda Adobe History Center.
San Lucas
45 Rancho San Lucas
DATE DESIGNATED: May 6, 1991
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 91000530
LOCATION: 1.75 miles SW of Paris Valley Road and Rancho San Lucas Entry Road
DESCRIPTION:
Monterey County's best preserved large ranch dating to a
transition period between stock raising and cereal farming, with eight
contributing properties built 1865–1888. Also associated with influential
local entrepreneur Alberto Trescony
Soledad
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad Historic District
DATE DESIGNATED: June 27, 2014
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 14000344
LOCATION: 36641 Fort Romie road
Los Coches Rancho
DATE DESIGNATED: January 31, 1979
HISTORIC PLACE ID: 79000502
LOCATION: One miLE South of Soledad on U.S. 101
DESCRIPTION:
1841 adobe and outbuildings that served as a stagecoach
stop on El Camino Real 1848–1880s. Also significant for its prehistoric
and historic archaeological resources.
Resources
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National Register of Historic Places: Monterey County
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Wikipedia: National Historic Places in Monterey County
Other Historic Sites in Monterey County
Visitor Attractions in Monterey County
Monterey County Travel Guide
Central Coast of California
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