{"nrhp_refnum":"06000612","name":"Ladies' Relief Society Children's Home","other_names":["North Oakland Recreation Center","Studio One","Studio One Art Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"365 45th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oakland","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.83326959500005,"lon":-122.25674888999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-07-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Shingle Style building at 365 45th Street in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, California, on a 1.1-acre site. It was built in 1894 and rebuilt in 1906-1907 after a fire, for the Ladies' Relief Society of Oakland's Children's Home.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the building to the Ladies' Relief Society of Oakland, whose history it calls an important and revealing part of local social history. The Society ran Oakland's first nonsectarian charitable facility, set up and directed largely by women. The property keeps a high degree of historic integrity despite later changes and deterioration.","narrative":"This two-story building at 365 45th Street in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood once housed the Ladies' Relief Society Children's Home. Roughly 123 by 143 feet, it combines wood framing with first-story load-bearing brick walls and shingled upper walls. Its U-shaped plan is symmetrical, with a projecting central bay on the south facade and second-story bay windows on the arms. The present building follows a 1894 version, rebuilt in 1906-1907 after a fire without the earlier dormers, entry towers and porte cochere. A small concrete-block kiln building and bridge, added in 1963, are the only noncontributing resource. The Ladies' Relief Society formed in 1871 after the Chicago fire and soon sought to shelter needy women and children, opening Oakland's first nonsectarian charitable facility in 1872. Led mainly by women, the group shaped the site's long use. The City of Oakland acquired the property in 1948 and later used it as Studio One. Rehabilitation is planned.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Shingle Style (main building); no style for the kiln building and bridge","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Oakland and long used as Studio One. The building suffers from deferred maintenance and earthquake damage, and a comprehensive rehabilitation project began preliminary work in 2005.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.543849-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/06000612.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000612/f4998b64ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000612/f4998b64ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ladies%27_Relief_Society_Children%27s_Home_(Oakland,_CA).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:Ladies%27_Relief_Society_Children%27s_Home_(Oakland,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858256","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%27_Relief_Society_Children%27s_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123243689"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/ladies-relief-society-childrens-home-06000612/"}