{"nrhp_refnum":"72000233","name":"San Dimas Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"121 San Dimas Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Dimas","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.107471704000034,"lon":-117.80720590199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story, 30-room hotel building at 121 North San Dimas Avenue in San Dimas, Los Angeles County, California, built 1885-87 and designed by Joseph C. Newsom.","why_significant":"The nomination cites two areas of significance: its original use as a small late-19th-century Southern California community hotel from the 1880s land boom, and its architecture as an Eastlake-style (Queen Anne variant) design by the Newsom brothers' firm. It is described as the only surviving Southern California Newsom building that retains its original quality. It also reflects the founding of San Dimas as a citrus community after the Santa Fe Railroad arrived.","narrative":"Built between 1885 and 1887 at 121 North San Dimas Avenue, this 2½-story redwood-clapboard hotel was designed by Joseph C. Newsom of the prominent Newsom brothers' architectural firm. It has 30 rooms, an 80-foot front veranda, turrets, dormers, shingled gables and 19 fireplaces, and much of its hardware and ornament is original. Construction began in 1885 as part of a land promotion meant to persuade guests to buy lots as the Santa Fe Railroad opened the area to citrus growing. The land boom collapsed before completion, and the hotel reportedly never had a paying guest. Since 1889 it has served as a private residence. Its basement housed the first school in San Dimas, and its living room hosted the first church services. The nomination values it as a rare surviving community hotel of the 1880s and the best-preserved Southern California example of the Newsoms' Eastlake work. Original landscaping, including an East India cedar and a Deodar, also remains.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Joseph C. Newsom (of Joseph and Samuel Newsom); built by the San Jose Land Company for Moses L. Wicks's land promotion","architectural_style":"Eastlake or Shingle style, a variant of Late Victorian-Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; exterior and interior described as virtually unchanged from 1887. In use as a private residence since 1889.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.880544-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/72000233.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000233/b2638afe61-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000233/b2638afe61-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Dimas_Hotel_(Walker_House).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:San_Dimas_Hotel_(Walker_House).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859480","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Dimas_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7413778"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/san-dimas-hotel-72000233/"}