{"nrhp_refnum":"06001157","name":"Ginty, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1568 Ninth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Diego","county":"San Diego County","state":"CA","lat":32.723411370000065,"lon":-117.15773603999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-12-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story wood-frame single-family house at 1568 Ninth Avenue on Cortez Hill in downtown San Diego, built around 1886 and relocated two blocks in 1999.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of the Victorian Stick style with transitional Queen Anne elements, illustrating the shift between the two styles. It is also tied to San Diego's 1880s residential development on Prospect Hill (Cortez Hill), where it is the only survivor of the first four elegant homes built there.","narrative":"This two-and-a-half-story wood-frame house at 1568 Ninth Avenue sits at the top of Cortez Hill in downtown San Diego. Built around 1886 in the Victorian Stick style, it was enlarged on its south side between 1889 and 1899, when a five-sided corner tower and an extended wrap-around porch added Queen Anne character. It has a flat-topped hipped roof, cedar shingles, horizontal shiplap siding, knee braces, brick chimneys and tall, narrow windows with rounded tops. The house was moved two blocks from its original Seventh Avenue site in 1999 and rehabilitated under the Secretary of the Interior's Standards. It was listed for architecture because it shows both styles and the transition between them. It is also the only survivor of the first four large homes built on the hill, once called Prospect Hill, during San Diego's 1880s boom. A 2002 garage on the lot is not counted as historic.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Stick, Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling; relocated and rehabilitated in 1999-2000, and a 2002 garage is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.496149-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/06001157.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001157/6a0a82783e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001157/6a0a82783e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bruce Roberson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Ginty_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruce Roberson</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:John_Ginty_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860867","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5754258"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-diego-county/ginty-john-house-06001157/"}