{"nrhp_refnum":"78000722","name":"Rancho Las Palmas","other_names":["Hiram Corey Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S of Salinas at 200 River Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salinas","county":"Monterey County","state":"CA","lat":36.62094430500008,"lon":-121.67070935299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rancho Las Palmas, also called the Hiram Corey Home, is a three-story Queen Anne style house at 200 River Road, south of Salinas in Monterey County, California, dated to 1891 and designed by the Coreys with a local builder named Bassett.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the best example of towered Queen Anne architecture in a rural setting in Monterey County. It is also tied to Hiram Corey, one of the county's most successful farmers and stock raisers in the decade before 1900, who ran dairy and horse-breeding operations.","narrative":"Rancho Las Palmas, also known as the Hiram Corey house, sits on River Road south of Salinas in Monterey County. Built in 1891, it is a three-story Queen Anne house with a tower, asymmetrical massing, and both gable and hipped roofs. Texture is the main decoration: redwood ship-lap siding, bands of fish-scale shingles, half-timbered square bays, and a bracketed cornice with dentils. The tower still has its original brass eagle finial. Hiram Corey and his wife designed the house, and a Salinas builder named Bassett carried out the construction. The nomination describes it as the finest rural Queen Anne example in the county. Corey was a prominent dairyman and stock raiser who leased and later bought the Buena Vista Rancho, then repurchased part of it in 1891 and renamed it Rancho Las Palmas, where he bred draft horses and roadsters. Original palm trees still line the entrance drive, and a small redwood carriage house remains at the rear.","period_of_significance":"1891","architect_builder":"Mr. & Mrs. Corey w/Mr. Bassett","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied private residence in poor-to-good condition (altered, good); the grounds are described as in decline. The property had recently changed hands, with subdivision planned and the new owners wishing to restore the house for adaptive use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.166076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000722.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000722/2ea9530b03-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000722/2ea9530b03-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"McGhiever","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rancho_Las_Palmas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">McGhiever</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:Rancho_Las_Palmas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859958","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Las_Palmas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116620292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/monterey-county/rancho-las-palmas-78000722/"}