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
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
Steele Brothers Dairies, House, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-H Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction
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
La Questa Wine Cellar, 240 La Questa Road, Woodside, San Mateo County,...
Significance: Built as a wine cellar for a moderate-sized winery owned by Emmet Hawkins Rixford, this building was converted to a residence by building a wood frame house inside. Survey number: HABS CA-2145 B... More
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
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Congregational Church, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: Oldest church surviving on its original site on the San Francisco peninsula. Survey number: HABS CA-163 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1889 Subsequent Work
Pablo Vasquez House, 270 North Main Street, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo C...
Significance: Built in 1869 for Pablo Vasquez, livery stable owner. Survey number: HABS CA-2124 Building/structure dates: 1869 Initial Construction
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
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
Steele Brothers Dairies, Ramsey-Steele House, Pescadero, San Mateo Cou...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-D Building/structure dates: 1873 Initial Construction
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
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
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
Carolands, 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: A grand copy of the seventeenth-century French chateau Vaux-le-Vecomte, built for Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress of the sleeping-car magnate. House intended for lavish entertaining, but the Car... More
Carolands, 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: A grand copy of the seventeenth-century French chateau Vaux-le-Vecomte, built for Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress of the sleeping-car magnate. House intended for lavish entertaining, but the Car... 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
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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Watkins-Cartan House, 25 Isabella Avenue, Atherton, San Mateo County, ...
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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
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
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
William Johnston House, 306 Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo Cou...
Significance: One of the early ranch houses of the area. Built for William Johnston, a civic leader. Survey number: HABS CA-2123 Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Construction
San Mateo County Courthouse, Middlefield, Hamilton, Broadway & Marshal...
Significance: The San Mateo County Courthouse has the largest stained-glass dome in the county. Although most of the building was rebuilt following the 1906 earthquake, the dome remains from the original 1904 ... More
San Mateo County Courthouse, Middlefield, Hamilton, Broadway & Marshal...
Significance: The San Mateo County Courthouse has the largest stained-glass dome in the county. Although most of the building was rebuilt following the 1906 earthquake, the dome remains from the original 1904 ... More
Payne-Douglass House, Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo County,...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 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
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
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
Near Half Moon Bay, California coast. Artichoke farms reach to the wat...
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
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
Beach, 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
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
Golf course, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of a golf course, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sunset Headquarters, 80 Willow Road, Menlo Park, San Mateo County, CA
1st Place Winner - 2015 HALS Challenge: Documenting Modernist Landscapes Significance: The property is closely associated with the influential landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church; Church designed the lan... More
Tanforan totalizer (San Bruno, Calif.), May 15, 1942
Weekly Vol. I, no. 1 (May 15, 1942)-vol. 1, no. 19 (September 12, 1942). Collected in Japanese camp papers. Title from masthead. Also issued on microfilm from the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service. ... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
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Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
Carolands, 565 Remillard Drive, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: A grand copy of the seventeenth-century French chateau Vaux-le-Vecomte, built for Harriet Pullman Carolan, heiress of the sleeping-car magnate. House intended for lavish entertaining, but the Car... 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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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