{"nrhp_refnum":"09001089","name":"Navarro","other_names":["Navarro-by-the-Sea"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Navarro Beach Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albion","county":"Mendocino County","state":"CA","lat":39.19445639400004,"lon":-123.75613231099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Commerce","Engineering","Communications","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-building property at the mouth of the Navarro River near Albion, Mendocino County, California, made up of the Navarro Inn (built circa 1865 by Captain Charles Fletcher) and the Mill Manager's House (circa 1861-4), both mid-19th century wood vernacular buildings now owned by California State Parks.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the Inn and Mill Manager's House as rare surviving buildings tied to the mid-to-late 19th century timber and cargo trade on the Mendocino Coast. The Inn is also an example of plank frame construction, a technique with few remaining examples in California. Both buildings show New England vernacular forms from early county settlement and retain enough integrity to convey that frontier setting.","narrative":"Two mid-19th century wooden buildings stand on a narrow spit of land at the mouth of the Navarro River, about seven miles south of Mendocino. The Navarro Inn was built around 1865 by Captain Charles Fletcher, a ship carpenter and builder, and housed single mill workers and sailors whose schooners waited to load lumber. It is a one-and-one-half-story redwood building using plank frame construction, a technique with few surviving California examples. Nearby, the Mill Manager's House, built around 1861-4 for the Navarro lumber mill, is a Cape Cod type vernacular home with dormers and two brick chimneys. Both reflect New England building traditions carried to the Mendocino Coast. Later additions, including a porch enclosed as a bar in 1948, altered the Inn, yet its core structure survives. The Inn later served as a fishing and beach resort and operated until the 1970s. Stabilization work in the 2000s protected the deteriorating Inn, and the buildings are recognized for their link to the area's timber and shipping trade.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Captain Charles Fletcher (Navarro Inn)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century; Vernacular, Massed-Plan Type","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Mill Manager's House is in good condition. The Inn is deteriorated but stabilized and mothballed after grant and State Park funding. The secondary guest buildings are in poor condition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.722789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/09001089.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001089/8dfa10d84f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001089/8dfa10d84f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jon Roanhaus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navarro2_NRHP_09001089_Monedocino_County,_CA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Roanhaus</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navarro2_NRHP_09001089_Monedocino_County,_CA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859813","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarro_(Albion,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85788056"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mendocino-county/navarro-09001089/"}