{"nrhp_refnum":"78000649","name":"Murphy, D. J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"291 McLeod St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Livermore","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.68151737800008,"lon":-121.76608358599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-04-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-story Italianate cottage at 291 McLeod Street in Livermore, Alameda County, California, moved to its present site in May 1891 from the city's Northern Addition. The builder is listed as E.D. Murphy, and the original construction date is given as prior to 1891.","why_significant":"It was the home from 1891 to 1921 of Daniel J. Murphy, a Livermore businessman and Alameda County Supervisor who worked on road improvement and helped establish the Arroyo Sanitarium. It is also one of the few remaining Italianate cottages in Livermore that kept its original design. It was considered locally significant.","narrative":"This small single-story Italianate cottage at 291 McLeod Street in Livermore was built before 1891 and moved from the city's Northern Addition to its present corner lot that May. It originally held about 1,120 square feet. Porches in California Bungalow style, probably added around World War I, and a rear addition altered its look. From 1891 until his death in 1921 it was the home of Daniel J. Murphy, a Livermore businessman, postmaster and Justice of the Peace who became Alameda County Supervisor in 1911. He worked to improve roads and helped establish the Arroyo Sanitarium, a county tuberculosis hospital. Architecturally, the house is one of 25 Italianate cottages left in Livermore, and one of only six that kept their design integrity, including original millwork. The house was condemned in 1976 and left vacant, and the deteriorated additions were to be removed so it could return to residential use. Its listing was meant to support preservation and restoration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"E.D. Murphy (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condemned by the Livermore City Building Department in July 1976 and described as vacant and deteriorated; later additions were slated for removal and restoration by the Livermore Heritage Guild.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.44337-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000649.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000649/b17a484135-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000649/b17a484135-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D.J._Murphy_House_(Livermore,_CA).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:D.J._Murphy_House_(Livermore,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858286","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133252211"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/murphy-d-j-house-78000649/"}