Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...
Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More
Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...
Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
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Steele Brothers Dairies, Cascade Ranch Dairy Building, Pescadero, San ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-A Building/structure dates: 1862 Initial Construction
Braddock Weeks House, Pescadero Road, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Braddock Weeks, a potato farmer. Survey number: HABS CA-2138 Building/structure dates: after 1860 Initial Construction
Portola Valley School, 775 Portola Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo Cou...
Significance: The Portola Valley schoolhouse is one of the few remaining turn-of-the-century examples of Mission Revival-styled schools. Its wood construction and use of shingles present a unique expression of... More
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Community Methodist Church, Johnston & Miramontes Streets, Half Moon B...
Significance: First Methodist church in Half Moon Bay. Survey number: HABS CA-2121 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction
Community Methodist Church, Johnston & Miramontes Streets, Half Moon B...
Significance: First Methodist church in Half Moon Bay. Survey number: HABS CA-2121 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: One of the grandiose creations of a grandiose personality - William Chapman Ralston. Utilizing a modest villa, property of Count Cipriani in the 1850s and early 1860s, Ralston created a veritable ... More
Watkins-Cartan House, 25 Isabella Avenue, Atherton, San Mateo County, ...
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James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
Linden Towers Gates, Middlefield Road at James Lane, Atherton, San Mat...
Significance: Linden Towers, an elaborate, multi-towered and multi-gabled mansion, was built in 1878 for James Clair Flood, reputed to be the wealthiest man in California. The gates, built for James L. Flood t... More
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, El Camino Real & Baldwin Street, San M...
Significance: The original church at this site, built in 1865, was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. Willis J. Polk, a parishioner, designed this church in the same village Gothic style. Survey number: HABS C... More
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, El Camino Real & Baldwin Street, San M...
Significance: The original church at this site, built in 1865, was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. Willis J. Polk, a parishioner, designed this church in the same village Gothic style. Survey number: HABS C... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Woodhams House, 112 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Significance: Built for Aldred Winfred Woodhams, a butcher, this house is in a picturesque cottage style. Survey number: HABS CA-2135 Building/structure dates: after 1890 Initial Construction
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
San Mateo (Crystal Springs) Dam, a concrete curved gravity structure b...
Illustration showing horse-drawn carriages crossing the top of the dam with the reservoir on the left and the downstream face on the right. Caption continues: As shown in this 1895 photograph, the San Mateo Da... More
Golf course, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Pacific Coast at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, North Street, Pescadero, San Mate...
Survey number: HABS CA-2133 Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
Bartlett V. Weeks House, 172 Goulson Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: Bartlett V. Weeks, who moved to this site in 1860, built this house in 1895. A descendant still lives here. Survey number: HABS CA-2137 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
Bank of San Mateo County, 2000-2002 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo ...
Significance: The oldest stone-faced building in the county, this stately Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900. Incorporated in 1891, before moving to its present site, it is the earliest bank in San M... More
Bank of San Mateo County, 2000-2002 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo ...
Significance: The oldest stone-faced building in the county, this stately Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900. Incorporated in 1891, before moving to its present site, it is the earliest bank in San M... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Woodside Store, Kings Mountain Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Mathias Parkhurst and Robert Tripp as a general store, post office, dental office, saloon, and after 1859 a library, this store was operated by Tripp until his death in 1909 at the age o... More
Woodside Store, Kings Mountain Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Mathias Parkhurst and Robert Tripp as a general store, post office, dental office, saloon, and after 1859 a library, this store was operated by Tripp until his death in 1909 at the age o... More
Fitzpatrick Building, 2010 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: This structure was built for Edward R. Fitzpatrick, who had his law offices on the upper floor. After his death, his son Joseph R. Fitzpatrich had his law offices there. The original storefront ... More
James McCormick House, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: One of the most architecturally sophisticated houses built in Pescadero in the 1860s, this is a mirror image of the Thomas W. Moore House (CA-2136). Survey number: HABS CA-2131 Building/structur... More
James McCormick House, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: One of the most architecturally sophisticated houses built in Pescadero in the 1860s, this is a mirror image of the Thomas W. Moore House (CA-2136). Survey number: HABS CA-2131 Building/structur... More
Diller-Chamberlain Store, 726 Main Street, Redwood City, San Mateo Cou...
Significance: The oldest brick commercial building in Redwood City, the Diller-Chamberlain Store once functioned as the social and civic center of the town. Survey number: HABS CA-2141 Building/structure date... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Ano Nuevo Ranch House, Ano Nuevo State Preser...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-F Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial Construction
San Gregorio House, San Gregorio Road, San Gregorio, San Mateo County,...
Significance: A second floor was added to the existing house here in about 1865 when G.W.T. Carter opened a hotel. When John Evans acquired the building in 1875 he added seven bays to the three-bay house. Jes... More
Clark House, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: This distinguished Cotswold-style mansion, beautifully situated in the hills, was one of David Adler's greatest works. Its lavishly appointed interior featured European furnishings including anti... More
Clark House, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: This distinguished Cotswold-style mansion, beautifully situated in the hills, was one of David Adler's greatest works. Its lavishly appointed interior featured European furnishings including anti... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo C...
Significance: Frame with clapboarding, 65' x 50', two stories with one-story wings, hip roofs with wooden shingles, bracketed eaves, overhanging roof on first-story level supported by columns on E elevation; wa... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo C...
Significance: Frame with clapboarding, 65' x 50', two stories with one-story wings, hip roofs with wooden shingles, bracketed eaves, overhanging roof on first-story level supported by columns on E elevation; wa... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo C...
Significance: Frame with clapboarding, 65' x 50', two stories with one-story wings, hip roofs with wooden shingles, bracketed eaves, overhanging roof on first-story level supported by columns on E elevation; wa... More
Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...
Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More
Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...
Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
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I. O. O. F. Hall, 110 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo County...
Significance: This chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows was organized in 1874. They built this building in 1878. Survey number: HABS CA-2134 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction ... More
Our Lady of the Wayside Roman Catholic Church, 930 Portola Road, Porto...
Significance: This church was built for the growing Catholic community at Portola Valley, with the assistance of a men's club called The Family. Survey number: HABS CA-2140 Building/structure dates: 1912 Init... More
Portola Valley School, 775 Portola Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo Cou...
Significance: The Portola Valley schoolhouse is one of the few remaining turn-of-the-century examples of Mission Revival-styled schools. Its wood construction and use of shingles present a unique expression of... More
108-114 San Gregorio Street (Buildings), Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Significance: This streetscape illustrates the charming variety of nineteenth century architectural forms and styles which developed during a time of prosperity when the coastside town of Pescadero served as a ... More
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Isaac Graham House, Cabrillo Highway, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Isaac Graham on the crest of a hill on Rancho Ano Nuevo, where it served as a landmark for sailors. Moved to its present site in 1880 to make room for the house of Rensselaer Steele's d... More
Cut Stone Bridge, Southern Pacific Railroad line spanning runoff chann...
Significance: The Cut Stone Bridge is significant in engineering history. It is eligible for the National Register under Criteria A and C, due to its age, associations, rarity and distinctiveness. It is an im... More
Cut Stone Bridge, Southern Pacific Railroad line spanning runoff chann...
Significance: The Cut Stone Bridge is significant in engineering history. It is eligible for the National Register under Criteria A and C, due to its age, associations, rarity and distinctiveness. It is an im... More
Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: One of the grandiose creations of a grandiose personality - William Chapman Ralston. Utilizing a modest villa, property of Count Cipriani in the 1850s and early 1860s, Ralston created a veritable ... More
Watkins-Cartan House, 25 Isabella Avenue, Atherton, San Mateo County, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Linden Towers Gates, Middlefield Road at James Lane, Atherton, San Mat...
Significance: Linden Towers, an elaborate, multi-towered and multi-gabled mansion, was built in 1878 for James Clair Flood, reputed to be the wealthiest man in California. The gates, built for James L. Flood t... More
Linden Towers Gates, Middlefield Road at James Lane, Atherton, San Mat...
Significance: Linden Towers, an elaborate, multi-towered and multi-gabled mansion, was built in 1878 for James Clair Flood, reputed to be the wealthiest man in California. The gates, built for James L. Flood t... More
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, El Camino Real & Baldwin Street, San M...
Significance: The original church at this site, built in 1865, was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. Willis J. Polk, a parishioner, designed this church in the same village Gothic style. Survey number: HABS C... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Woodhams House, 112 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Significance: Built for Aldred Winfred Woodhams, a butcher, this house is in a picturesque cottage style. Survey number: HABS CA-2135 Building/structure dates: after 1890 Initial Construction
Payne-Douglass House, Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo County,...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, North Street, Pescadero, San Mate...
Survey number: HABS CA-2133 Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
Methodist Episcopal Church, 108 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Ma...
Significance: Built as a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890, this building was sold by the church in 1905. Survey number: HABS CA-162 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Woodside Store, Kings Mountain Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Mathias Parkhurst and Robert Tripp as a general store, post office, dental office, saloon, and after 1859 a library, this store was operated by Tripp until his death in 1909 at the age o... More
Woodside Store, Kings Mountain Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built for Mathias Parkhurst and Robert Tripp as a general store, post office, dental office, saloon, and after 1859 a library, this store was operated by Tripp until his death in 1909 at the age o... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Dickerman Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-E Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description