{"nrhp_refnum":"04000733","name":"Brown, John Stanford, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13950 CA 160","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walnut Grove","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.248065257000064,"lon":-121.51235224399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Tudor Revival residence known as \"Orchard Gables\" at 13950 State Route 160 near Walnut Grove, Sacramento County, California, built in 1925 on a 2.5-acre estate beside the Sacramento River levee. It was designed by architect Arthur Reginald Widdowson and built by Frank P. Williams.","why_significant":"Listed under Criterion B for its association with John Stanford Brown, head of the Bank of Alex Brown and the Alex Brown Company, a major figure in the finance and business life of Walnut Grove and the Sacramento delta until his death in 1952. He managed family agricultural and commercial holdings, including the region's largest asparagus business, and the bank served both white landowners and Asian farmers. The house is also described as a well-preserved example of 1920s Tudor Revival design.","narrative":"Orchard Gables is a brick Tudor Revival house on a 2.5-acre property below the Sacramento River levee across from Walnut Grove. Completed in 1925 to designs by architect Arthur Reginald Widdowson, it has a U-shaped plan, a Gladding McBean tile roof, multiple-flue chimneys, and a Palladian terra cotta entry porch with Batchelder pavers. French doors open onto brick terraces, and a tiled swimming pool built with the house survives at the rear. A service wing uses Cotswold-style picturesque details. The house was built for John Stanford Brown, who led the Bank of Alex Brown and the Alex Brown Company. Through them he managed family farmland, an asparagus business, a hotel, the local movie theater, and the electric company, and he provided banking to Japanese and Chinese farmers in the delta. He lived here until his death in 1952, and the house remains in excellent, minimally altered condition.","period_of_significance":"1925-1952","architect_builder":"Widdowson, Arthur Reginald, Architect; Williams, Frank P. \"Squeaky\", Builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival, Elizabethan Revival","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and minimally altered since construction in 1925; used as a single-dwelling residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.588767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04000733.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860551","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133445016"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/brown-john-stanford-house-04000733/"}