{"nrhp_refnum":"77000339","name":"Redwood City Historic Commercial Buildings","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Broadway and Main Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Redwood City","county":"San Mateo County","state":"CA","lat":37.48688136000004,"lon":-122.22671556099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-building commercial district at the northwest corner of Broadway and Main Street in Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, made up of the Pioneer Store (1859), the Bank of San Mateo County (1900), the Fitzpatrick Building (1905) and the San Mateo County Building & Loan Association (1928).","why_significant":"The Pioneer Store is the oldest extant commercial building in the city and the first brick building built with private capital in San Mateo County. It also stands on the site of the Spanish-Mexican embarcadero and the first courthouse. The bank housed the first commercial bank on the Peninsula and marks the key pioneer intersection. The buildings blend well and are tied to pioneer county and community leaders.","narrative":"Four commercial buildings at the northwest corner of Broadway and Main Street in Redwood City form a district that traces the town's growth from a lumber-shipping landing to a county seat. The oldest is the Pioneer Store, built in brick in 1859 by John V. Diller near the old tidewater embarcadero. It is the city's oldest surviving commercial building and the first privately financed brick building in San Mateo County. Beside it stands the Bank of San Mateo County, completed in 1900 to designs by Alfred I. Coffey, with stone veneer, colossal pilasters and a domed corner entrance. The adjoining Fitzpatrick Building, from 1905, has a terra cotta brick front rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake. A 1928 Building & Loan structure completes the group. The buildings differ in era but fit together in scale and detail. The nomination presents them as the focal point of community life since pioneer days and as linked to early civic leaders.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Alfred I. Coffey of Martens & Coffey, San Francisco (architect for the bank, the 1904-10 bank facade and the Fitzpatrick Building); Robert Brown, local contractor; O.E. Brady & Son, masonry; John V. Diller (Pioneer Store builder)","architectural_style":"Modified Classical Revival (Pioneer Store); Renaissance with Queen Anne corner treatment (Bank); 19th century Renaissance commercial (Fitzpatrick Building); late Italianate (Building & Loan)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The bank and the Fitzpatrick Building are described as vacant; the Pioneer Store has been altered and used as a laundry; the Building & Loan building is occupied and lightly modernized.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.786935-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/77000339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000339/8ca0fbb1fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000339/8ca0fbb1fc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_San_Mateo_County,_2000_Broadway,_Redwood_City,_CA_9-5-2011_6-11-10_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:Bank_of_San_Mateo_County,_2000_Broadway,_Redwood_City,_CA_9-5-2011_6-11-10_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861552","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City_Historic_Commercial_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64610736"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-mateo-county/redwood-city-historic-commercial-buildings-77000339/"}