{"nrhp_refnum":"04000679","name":"Casa de Rosas","other_names":["Sunshine Mission"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2600 S. Hoover St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.02993214600008,"lon":-118.28296448099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Casa de Rosas is a complex of four buildings at the southeast corner of West Adams Boulevard and South Hoover Street in Los Angeles, California. The Main Building was built in 1893 as a kindergarten and school; later buildings date from 1915 and 1920 and one earlier gymnasium.","why_significant":"The complex is significant in education for its link to the Los Angeles Froebel Institute and the Girls' Collegiate School, among the first kindergartens and private girls' schools in Los Angeles. The Main Building is also significant as an early Mission Revival work and the first documented building by architect Sumner Hunt. Its courtyard plan anticipated the indoor-outdoor lifestyle of Southern California architecture.","narrative":"Casa de Rosas is a group of four stucco buildings a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles, centered on a Main Building completed in 1893 to designs by Sumner Hunt. It was built around a courtyard for the Los Angeles Froebel Institute, an early kindergarten based on the teachings of Friedrich Froebel, and later housed the Girls' Collegiate School. Additional buildings followed: a gymnasium shown on a 1907 map, a dormitory and dining building called Rose Court in 1915, and a classroom building in 1920. The Main Building blends Mission Revival and late Victorian design, with arcades, a porte cochere and hipped roofs. It was among the first Los Angeles buildings to draw on mission architecture and to use courtyards in a way that foreshadowed Southern California living. Fires, a 1971 street widening and 1990 rehabilitation changed parts of it, yet much of the original character remains. Since 1951 it has served as the Sunshine Mission, a refuge for homeless women.","period_of_significance":"1893-1925","architect_builder":"Hunt, Sumner P. (Main Building); Hunt & Burns (Building B); Kavanaugh & Barnes (Building D)","architectural_style":"Late 19th Century & 20th Century Revival: Mission","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Since 1951 the complex has been known as the Sunshine Mission, a refuge for homeless women; rooms are used as offices, lounges, guest rooms and multipurpose space. Fire damage was repaired in 1990.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.609825-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04000679.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000679/f5f20886c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000679/f5f20886c6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_de_Rosas,_Los_Angeles.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</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:Casa_de_Rosas,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859015","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_Rosas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5047925"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/casa-de-rosas-04000679/"}