{"nrhp_refnum":"04001109","name":"Pomona City Stable","other_names":["Pomona City Yards Brick Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"636 W. Monterey Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pomona","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.05922042000003,"lon":-117.75949311899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story unreinforced brick municipal stable at 636 W. Monterey Avenue in the Pomona City Yard, Pomona, California, designed in 1908 and built in 1909.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criteria A and C as a rare survivor of Pomona's horse-powered transportation era and as a distinctive turn-of-the-century brick utilitarian building. It is the work of Ferdinand Davis, described as the city's most important architect of the late 19th and early 20th century. A 1976 eligibility report called it a rare example of its type in Pomona and comparable to few buildings statewide.","narrative":"Built in 1909 to a design by Pomona architect Ferdinand Davis, this brick stable at 636 West Monterey Avenue once housed the city's horses and mules. The building measures 98 by 44 feet, with 18-inch walls of about 180,000 bricks on concrete footings. Its details include arched windows, stepped gable ends, iron accents, hay-loading doors with pulley braces, and two bell-shaped ventilating cupolas. Horses were soon replaced by motor trucks, and until 1937 it sheltered fire and police wagons and mail buggies before becoming storage for civil defense equipment. It was condemned in the early 1970s. The nomination presents it as a rare survivor of Pomona's pre-automobile transportation and of the city's industrial and warehouse architecture. It also represents the work of Davis, a leading local architect. Listed as a city landmark in 2003, it remained vacant, with a failing roof and storm and animal damage, in 2004.","period_of_significance":"1909-1937","architect_builder":"Davis, Ferdinand, architect","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (described in the text as Italianate)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant and derelict in 2004, with a severely deteriorated roof, water-damaged interior and cracked walls; condemned in the early 1970s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.631343-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04001109.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001109/8cafde85d8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001109/8cafde85d8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pomona_City_Stables.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:Pomona_City_Stables.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859424","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomona_City_Stables","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7227382"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/pomona-city-stable-04001109/"}