{"nrhp_refnum":"11000705","name":"Boulevard Park","other_names":["Union Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by B and H Streets, 20th Street, 22nd Street & 23rd Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.582842301000056,"lon":-115.47735121112113,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in central Sacramento, California, built on a 37.5-acre tract bought by the Park Realty Company in 1905. It covers 15 city blocks with 244 contributing and 54 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is described as a planned streetcar-era suburb with landscaped boulevards, alley parks and deed covenants that set setbacks and uses. Its eclectic early-20th-century houses form a uniform streetscape and retain a high degree of integrity. The form also notes that 21st and 22nd Streets were the first landscaped boulevards in Sacramento, a feature of \"City Beautiful\" neighborhoods.","narrative":"Boulevard Park is a planned residential neighborhood in Sacramento's original city grid, laid out on 37.5 acres bought by the Park Realty Company in 1905. It spans 15 blocks between B and H Streets. Twenty-three landscaped median strips planted with palms run along 21st and 22nd Streets and give the area its name. Three private alley parks sit in the centers of blocks, and Grant Park occupies a block on the north edge. Deed covenants controlled setbacks, uses and minimum house prices, and the largest lots and most elaborate houses are in the southern blocks nearest the streetcar line. Most of the 244 contributing resources are houses built between 1905 and 1946, including Craftsman and California bungalows, foursquares and Neoclassic row houses. The district was listed because its landscape plan, covenant-controlled layout and consistent scale and setback remain intact, while newer apartment buildings account for most of the 54 noncontributing resources.","period_of_significance":"1905-1946","architect_builder":"Wright & Kimbrough (builders and sellers of standard house patterns); Park Realty Company (developer)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Prairie","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential and still in use, with a city park, private alley parks and a half-block of light industrial use. Some single-family houses have been converted to duplexes or apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.618478-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/11000705.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000705/5189dc4303-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000705/5189dc4303-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JinCA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_house_in_Boulevard_Park.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">JinCA</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:Old_house_in_Boulevard_Park.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835548","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_Park,_Sacramento,_California","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4949659"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/boulevard-park-11000705/"}