{"nrhp_refnum":"72000265","name":"Rumsey Town Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"CA 16 at Manzanita St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rumsey","county":"Yolo County","state":"CA","lat":38.88846522700004,"lon":-122.23768386699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame community meeting hall on California Highway 16 at Manzanita Street in Rumsey, Yolo County, California, built in 1906 with a stage addition completed between 1906 and 1910.","why_significant":"The hall was built by local volunteers with funds raised by the Rumsey Improvement Club to serve as a gathering place for meetings and social events. It was the largest public hall in Yolo County and hosted vaudeville and local stage shows. It is presented as a reminder of when town halls were the focal point of rural community life.","narrative":"Rumsey Town Hall is a white-painted wooden hall on California Highway 16 in the Capay Valley, Yolo County. Built in 1906 on its original site, it measures about 50 by 30 feet, with a stage addition from between 1906 and 1910 adding 17 feet. Its most distinctive exterior feature is an angled southwest corner entrance under a small roof, with a hand-painted sign giving the elevation and the distance to San Francisco. Inside are wood plank floors, wooden benches, a wood stove, and a hand-painted stage curtain and three backdrops by Woodland artist Joe Herms. The Rumsey Improvement Club raised construction money through ice cream socials and dinners, and local volunteers did the building. When finished, it was the largest public hall in Yolo County. It hosted meetings, local theatricals and traveling vaudeville shows, and sheltered harvest-time families. It continues to serve community groups, and its significance rests on its role as a rural social center.","period_of_significance":"20th Century; built 1906, addition between 1906-1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used for meetings by groups such as the volunteer firemen and 4-H club and maintained by the Rumsey Improvement Club; the form notes the original site and a largely original interior, in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.35687-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/72000265.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000265/cc0aeac292-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000265/cc0aeac292-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Yolorose","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rumsey_Town_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Yolorose</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:Rumsey_Town_Hall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862404","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133571836"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/yolo-county/rumsey-town-hall-72000265/"}