{"nrhp_refnum":"75000480","name":"Old City Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7410 Monterey St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gilroy","county":"Santa Clara County","state":"CA","lat":37.00708402600003,"lon":-121.56847537099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old City Hall at 7410 Monterey Street in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California, a two-story civic building with a corner clock tower, built in 1905 and designed by architect Samuel Newsom with the San Jose firm of Wolfe and McKenzie.","why_significant":"The nomination cites architectural historian David Gebhard, who called it an important example of Mission Revival style used for civic architecture in California. It is also described as a major landmark in Gilroy's small-scale urban environment. The building is said to have a national reputation as a turn-of-the-century work, discussed in several architectural publications.","narrative":"Gilroy's Old City Hall, at 7410 Monterey Street, is a two-story civic building completed after construction began in 1905. Its corner tower, with four clock faces and a tiled cupola, dominates the structure, and the two street facades carry stone cornices, ornamental gables, tiled roofs, sandstone window trim and stone spheres. The lower story is greystone faced with sandstone that cattle baron Henry Miller had quarried at his own expense, while the upper story is yellow brick and stucco under a red tile roof. Samuel Newsom designed it with the San Jose firm of Wolfe and McKenzie. The building originally held the mayor's office, council chamber, clerk, marshal, courtroom, a jail and the city fire engines. It was listed because architectural historian David Gebhard considered it an important example of Mission Revival style applied to civic architecture in California and a major landmark of Gilroy. Several architects and historians discussed it in publications between the 1960s and 1970s.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1904-5)","architect_builder":"Samuel Newsom, in cooperation with Wolfe and McKenzie of San Jose","architectural_style":"Mission Revival; described as Eclectic with Mission Revival elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Gilroy; described as in good condition, unaltered, on its original site, with no significant structural changes. A later grant application proposed exterior restoration to its 1905 appearance and adaptive-use rehabilitation of the interior for commercial use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.848551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/75000480.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000480/4f9f6d7f06-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000480/4f9f6d7f06-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_City_Hall,_7410_Monterey_St.,_Gilroy,_CA_9-23-2012_3-25-51_PM.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</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_City_Hall,_7410_Monterey_St.,_Gilroy,_CA_9-23-2012_3-25-51_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861752","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_Hall_(Gilroy,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104722029"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/santa-clara-county/old-city-hall-75000480/"}