{"nrhp_refnum":"00000322","name":"Coxhead, Ernest, House","other_names":["Scholars' Cottage","Coxhead Bed and Breakfast"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"37 E. Santa Inez Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Mateo","county":"San Mateo County","state":"CA","lat":37.57009251000005,"lon":-122.33275385799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Tudor Revival house with a detached carriage house at 37 East Santa Inez Avenue, San Mateo, California, built around 1893 as the second home of architect Ernest Coxhead.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an important work of Ernest Coxhead and of the First Bay Tradition, combining English vernacular and Arts and Crafts forms with an open, flowing interior plan unlike Victorian houses. It is also the architect's own house, which shows him experimenting with new ideas. The carriage house is presented as an example of the shift from barn to garage in early suburbs.","narrative":"Built around 1893 at 37 East Santa Inez Avenue in San Mateo, this two-story half-timbered house with stucco infill and a separate carriage house was the suburban second home of English-born architect Ernest Coxhead. Its paired bowed gables, leaded windows, heavy timbers and redwood-paneled interior show Coxhead combining English country and Arts and Crafts ideas. Rooms flow into one another rather than opening off a central hall, a departure from Victorian planning. The house was once in open country, and it reflects the 1890s fashion for informal homes in rustic suburbs. The carriage house shows the move from agricultural barn to suburban garage. Later owners included Arthur Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, scholars of Persian art. Changes include a replaced roof, an enclosed porch and a 1997 conversion to a bed and breakfast. It was listed for its architecture, as a work of Coxhead with its integrity largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c. 1893","architect_builder":"Coxhead, Ernest","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Converted in 1997 to a bed and breakfast; the house retains its architectural integrity, with limited alterations to roofing and the southwest porch.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.918754-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/00000322.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000322/d6c742285f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000322/d6c742285f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Eugene Zelenko","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA-San_Mateo-Ernest_Coxhead_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugene Zelenko</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA-San_Mateo-Ernest_Coxhead_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861500","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133522214"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-mateo-county/coxhead-ernest-house-00000322/"}