{"nrhp_refnum":"75000500","name":"Woodleaf Hotel","other_names":["Woodville House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Marysville-La Porte Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodleaf","county":"Yuba County","state":"CA","lat":39.517651338000064,"lon":-121.19155256699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story handmade brick hotel on the Marysville-La Porte Road in Woodleaf, Yuba County, California, also known as Woodville House. Brickmaking began in 1856 under builder Joseph P. Wood, and construction was completed in 1858.","why_significant":"The hotel is a rare mixture of Greek Revival, Georgian and Federal features, and is described as the only remaining brick building of this style in the Northern Mines region of California. It also served as a main overnight stage stop on the trade and travel route to the mining country around La Porte, until the mining decline of the 1880s.","narrative":"Built of handmade brick from native clay, this two-and-a-half-story hotel on the Marysville-La Porte Road in Woodleaf was finished in 1858 by San Francisco and Ohio builder Joseph P. Wood, who began making brick on the site in 1856. Its two-story veranda with plain posts marks it as Greek Revival, while a curved roof descending from the ridge, a dentilled cornice, a center hall and stairway, a round second-floor room and twin end chimneys with gabled parapets add Georgian and Federal touches. It is described as the only remaining brick building of this style in California's Northern Mines region. The hotel also mattered for travel and trade. Located roughly midway between Marysville and La Porte, it became a main overnight stage stop once the Central Turnpike opened in 1860, and again gained traffic from the Oroville-Woodville Pike in 1865. Its prominence faded as mining declined in the 1880s. The front still resembles early photographs, and later additions sit at the rear.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (construction completed 1858)","architect_builder":"Joseph P. Wood, builder from San Francisco and Ohio","architectural_style":"Greek Revival; some features of Early and Late Georgian and Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and altered; the front retains a high degree of integrity, with major additions at the rear. Form lists it as occupied, with commercial and educational use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.792338-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/75000500.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000500/a9c6443a3a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000500/a9c6443a3a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Rifflebox","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodleaf_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rifflebox</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:Woodleaf_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862437","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133572307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/yuba-county/woodleaf-hotel-75000500/"}