{"nrhp_refnum":"73000453","name":"Civic Art Gallery","other_names":["Old Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Jose","county":"Santa Clara County","state":"CA","lat":37.33367496400007,"lon":-121.89032329999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-01-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Romanesque-style sandstone building at 110 Market Street in San Jose, California, built 1892-1895 as the city's first Federal Building and post office. It is owned by the City of San Jose and now serves as an art gallery.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only surviving Treasury building on the West Coast designed in the Romanesque style associated with Henry Hobson Richardson. It also has fine Italian stone carving in locally quarried sandstone and a rare Nels Johnson clock. The site is tied to early San Jose history, including the Pico Adobe, the first state capitol area and Chinatown.","narrative":"Built between 1892 and 1895 at 110 Market Street, this three-story Romanesque building served San Jose as its first Federal Building and post office. Its exterior is sandstone quarried locally in the Goodrich mines, the same source as the stone for the Stanford University Quadrangle, and the nomination calls the carving among the finest Italian stone work still standing in Northern California. The 1906 earthquake toppled the steeple of the clock tower, which was rebuilt in 1908-1909 under architect James Knox Taylor with a gravity-powered, three-faced clock by Nels Johnson. The federal government used the building until 1933, and in 1935 the city bought it for a library and remodeled it with an addition by Ralph Wycoff. It became an art gallery in the early 1970s. It was listed as the only surviving Treasury building on the West Coast in the Richardsonian Romanesque manner, set beside Market Plaza Park on historically layered ground.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Willoughby J. Edbrooke, architect; built by J.J. and I.N. Day; clock tower rebuilt 1908-1909 under James Knox Taylor; 1935 remodel and addition by Ralph Wycoff","architectural_style":"Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; the interior was being remodeled in 1972 to convert it to an art gallery, and it is now used as a gallery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.629153-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/73000453.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000453/d05b50fd67-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000453/d05b50fd67-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"EugeneZelenko","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA-San_Jose-San_Jose_Museum_of_Art-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">EugeneZelenko</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:USA-San_Jose-San_Jose_Museum_of_Art-1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861656","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121697258"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/santa-clara-county/civic-art-gallery-73000453/"}