{"nrhp_refnum":"04000328","name":"Folger Estate Stable Historic District","other_names":["Jones Ranch"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4040 Woodside Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodside","county":"San Mateo County","state":"CA","lat":37.408221266000055,"lon":-122.25916495799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-acre district of ten buildings and structures just inside the entrance to Wunderlich Park in Woodside, San Mateo County, California. Its core is a stable, garage and blacksmith barn built in 1905-1906 for James A. Folger II and his wife Clara, plus an earlier stone dairy house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant under Criterion A in Entertainment/Recreation at the local level. The Folger stable was the first built for a new generation of wealthy San Franciscans who kept horses for recreation, and it reflects Woodside's unusual adaptation to horses. The district also holds remnants of a nineteenth-century farm and ranch.","narrative":"At the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Woodside, a three-acre cluster of buildings sits just inside the entrance to Wunderlich Park. Its core is a large two-story wood stable, a garage and a blacksmith barn, all designed by Schultze & Brown and built in 1905-1906 for James A. Folger II and his wife Clara. The buildings have high hip roofs, dormers and ventilating towers, in a style drawn mainly from French Baroque architecture and partly from the Arts and Crafts movement. The district also keeps a stone dairy house and stone walls from an earlier ranch owned by Simon Jones and his son Everett. Several later buildings and pens are not counted as historic. The district is considered significant for its link to recreational horse keeping in Woodside. The Folger stable was the first built for wealthy San Franciscans who kept horses for pleasure, and many similar stables followed. The Folger house itself lies outside the district boundary.","period_of_significance":"1905-1940","architect_builder":"Schultze & Brown (architectural firm; also spelled Schulze & Brown in the form)","architectural_style":"French Renaissance; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The buildings are little altered. The main stable has a new roof but needs painting and repair, the garage has been rehabilitated, the blacksmith barn was rehabilitated after a tree fell on it, and the dairy house needs repair. The stable group is publicly owned, and the site is used for recreation, including a commercial stable.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.603234-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04000328.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000328/f41e57f6f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000328/f41e57f6f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folger_Estate_Stable_Historic_District,_4040_Woodside_Rd.,_Woodside,_CA_9-18-2011_4-24-36_PM.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Folger_Estate_Stable_Historic_District,_4040_Woodside_Rd.,_Woodside,_CA_9-18-2011_4-24-36_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861508","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folger_Estate_Stable_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83528887"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-mateo-county/folger-estate-stable-historic-district-04000328/"}