{"nrhp_refnum":"76000479","name":"Colusa High School and Grounds","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"745 10th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Colusa","county":"Colusa County","state":"CA","lat":39.21011871700006,"lon":-122.01611834499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Mediterranean Revival brick school building with a 60-foot tower and its landscaped grounds at 745 Tenth Street, Colusa, California, built in 1925-26 to a design by George C. Sellon.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the few intact pre-Field Act Mediterranean Revival schools, with unusually rich brick and terra cotta detailing for a school of its size. It also shows how a rural farming community built a durable, attractive school on a limited bond budget. The park-like lawns and old elm trees add landscape significance.","narrative":"Colusa's old high school, later its junior high school, is a two-story Mediterranean Revival building on Tenth Street, the main road into town. Completed in 1926 from designs by Sacramento architect George C. Sellon, it has solid brick walls in a salmon color, terra cotta ornament at its entrances, wrought iron and wood window screens, mission tile roofing and a 60-foot tower. Its auditorium has a balcony and plaster ceiling rosettes. The $200,000 construction cost was paid by a voter-approved bond, and the school board served as contractor. It was dedicated on September 6, 1926. The building is considered one of the few intact pre-Field Act schools of its type and an example of quality, economical construction in a farming community. Its lawns and mature elm trees create a park-like setting that continues toward the adjacent city park. Students left the building in 1976, after which it was proposed for lease and reuse as offices.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date September 6, 1926)","architect_builder":"George C. Sellon","architectural_style":"Mediterranean Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition described as excellent; used as a high school, then a junior high school until June 1976, when students vacated. A new school complex was built to the east, and the nomination was urged because the building was threatened with demolition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.569916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/76000479.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000479/030e53c374-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000479/030e53c374-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Ammodramus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colusa_1926_high_school_N_end_1.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammodramus</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colusa_1926_high_school_N_end_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858496","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colusa_High_School_and_Grounds","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65086239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/colusa-county/colusa-high-school-and-grounds-76000479/"}