{"nrhp_refnum":"76002247","name":"Red Rest and Red Roost Cottages","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1187 and 1179 Coast Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"La Jolla","county":"San Diego County","state":"CA","lat":32.84986528600007,"lon":-117.27241478399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent one-story wooden beach cottages at 1187 and 1179 Coast Blvd. facing La Jolla Cove in La Jolla, San Diego, California, built in 1894 and originally named Red Rest and Neptune (later the Red Roost).","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cottages are early examples of the Pacific-coast beach cottage bungalow, a type it calls the forerunner of the California Bungalow. It also cites their early use of frameless tongue-and-groove wall construction and their intact relationship to the Cove beach setting. It notes they are among the oldest surviving buildings on their original sites in La Jolla.","narrative":"Two small wooden cottages face La Jolla Cove from Coast Boulevard, built in 1894 by neighbors on a block of La Jolla Park. George J. Leovy's Red Rest and Dr. J. E. Fishburn's Neptune, later known as the Red Roost, were each one story with an attic room, a raised floor and a broad veranda. Both used frameless, tongue-and-groove diaphragm walls. The nomination presents them as early models of the beach cottage bungalow, which it credits as a forerunner of the California Bungalow, with its informality, large windows and indoor-outdoor living on the veranda. Newspaper items from 1894 document their construction, and families moved into the red cottages by the end of that year. The Neptune served briefly as a tea room, with its veranda extended in 1940, and the Red Rest later had part of its veranda enclosed. Mature palms and eucalyptus still frame the site, and the cottages remain in good condition and in residential use.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (built 1894)","architect_builder":"George J. Leovy, builder of the Red Rest and probably one of its designers","architectural_style":"Beach cottage bungalow with veranda; California beach cottage vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in generally good condition and suited to full restoration. The cottages have served as residences, apart from a brief period when the Neptune/Red Roost was a tea room, and are rented out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.053697-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/76002247.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002247/77dfa637a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76002247/77dfa637a6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Walter Smalling, HABS photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Rest_%26_Red_Roost_(Neptune)_Cottages_(La_Jolla,_CA).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Walter Smalling, HABS photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Rest_%26_Red_Roost_(Neptune)_Cottages_(La_Jolla,_CA).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860957","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rest_and_Red_Roost_Cottages","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5554797"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-diego-county/red-rest-and-red-roost-cottages-76002247/"}