{"nrhp_refnum":"04000928","name":"Baker Highway Maintenance Station","other_names":["Baker Station Historic District, CA-Tou-55-0016H","P-55-006760","Fs 05-16-53-0571"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"33950 CA 108","address_restricted":false,"city":"Strawberry","county":"Tuolumne County","state":"CA","lat":38.33029647400008,"lon":-119.75646564799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of twelve buildings, objects and a structure making up an early 1930s California state highway maintenance station on Highway 108 at Strawberry, Tuolumne County, within the Stanislaus National Forest, built on the site of a 19th-century toll station.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the station is a rare, little-altered example of the remote maintenance compounds the California Highway Commission's Division of Highways built to maintain trans-Sierra routes. Its significance rests on its remote forested setting, simple wood and corrugated metal construction, and a site layout separating work and residential areas and distancing the superintendent's cottage.","narrative":"Baker Station is a remote highway maintenance compound beside Highway 108 at 6,207 feet in the Sierra Nevada, within the Stanislaus National Forest. Built in the early 1930s by the California Highway Commission's Division of Highways, it sits on the site of a 19th-century toll station on the Sonora-Mono Wagon Road. The station housed the workers and machinery that kept the high-elevation stretch of the trans-Sierra highway open west of Sonora Pass. Eleven historic buildings survive in two clusters: a residential row facing the highway, with superintendent's, foreman's and workman's cottages, a dining hall, social hall and bunkhouse, and an operational area with a truck shed and generator house. Residential buildings are wood-clad, while work buildings use corrugated metal. The State used the station until the 1960s, intermittently until 1981, and then abandoned it. Its minimal alteration, rustic materials and deliberate social layout make it a rare tangible record of early state highway maintenance in California.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder unknown; built under the California Department of Public Works, Division of Highways","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman; Other: wooden cabin; sheet metal clad industrial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Abandoned by the State in 1981; plans were underway to adapt it as a college-level learning center. Retains its historic appearance with minor repairs and in-kind roof replacement.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.816273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04000928.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862264","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Highway_Maintenance_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85744977"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tuolumne-county/baker-highway-maintenance-station-04000928/"}