{"nrhp_refnum":"72001602","name":"Campo de Cahuenga","other_names":["Ca-Lan 1945h"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3919 Lankershim Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.13980075000006,"lon":-118.36235398899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-12-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Aboriginal","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Social History","Conservation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commemorative city park at 3919 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, containing a 1949-50 memorial building, the archaeological remains of a Mission-period adobe (ca. 1795), and a designed landscape laid out after the City bought the land in 1923.","why_significant":"The site is where the Articles of Capitulation were signed on January 13, 1847, ending hostilities between Mexico and California. It is also an early example of municipal land purchase for commemoration and preservation. The adobe's subsurface remains have yielded, and may still yield, important historical and archaeological information.","narrative":"Campo de Cahuenga is a small public park on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood that commemorates the signing of the Articles of Capitulation on January 13, 1847, which ended hostilities between Mexico and California. The grounds hold three main elements: the stone foundations and tile floors of an adobe built around 1795, a memorial building completed in 1950, and a courtyard-style landscape. Los Angeles architects Spencer and Landon designed the building as a Spanish Colonial Revival reconstruction, using a 1931 student excavation as their guide. The City of Los Angeles bought the lot in 1923 and dedicated the park in 1924, an early case of a city acquiring land to commemorate and preserve a historic site. Research has shown the adobe is older than long believed and was tied to Mission San Fernando. Today the building serves as a museum and meeting place, and an annual January reenactment recalls the signing.","period_of_significance":"Archeological site: 1795-1880s; Historic property: 1923-1953","architect_builder":"Landon and Spencer, architects of Memorial Building","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial (Spanish Colonial Revival)","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Used as a museum, meeting place and public park; the building is described as unaltered since its 1950 dedication, and the landscape plan survives intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.697606-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/72001602.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001602/2730781182-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72001602/2730781182-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Paula Katherine Marmor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campo_de_cahuenga_detail.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Paula Katherine Marmor</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Campo_de_cahuenga_detail.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859009","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campo_de_Cahuenga","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5028468"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/campo-de-cahuenga-72001602/"}