{"nrhp_refnum":"79000480","name":"Palmer, Minnie Hill, House","other_names":["Homestead Acre"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Chatsworth Park South","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chatsworth","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.261004064000076,"lon":-118.61554485099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-framed bungalow-type cottage on the one-acre Homestead Acre in Chatsworth Park South, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, built in 1911 by Lovell Hill and Willard Johnson as a home for a pioneer homesteading family.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the only pioneer cottage with its surrounding garden and fruit trees left in the West San Fernando Valley. It remained virtually unchanged on land held by the same family since 1886. It illustrates the homesteads that sustained early settlers before the Valley became suburban.","narrative":"Set against a rocky hill at the western end of Devonshire Street in Chatsworth Park South, this one-story wood cottage was built in 1911 on the homestead of the Hill family. It combines features of Western Stick architecture and the California Bungalow. The original section uses single-wall construction of vertical wooden panels with battens, under a broad, gently pitched gabled roof. A screened porch, a rear service porch and a bathroom were added later, the latter two in the 1950s. Inside are three bedrooms, a living room, a small dining room and a long narrow kitchen, with no fireplace or chimney. The Hill family took up squatter's rights on the land in 1886, and Minnie Hill Palmer lived there almost all her life, growing and preserving her own food until 1977. The surrounding acre keeps shade trees, fruit trees, grape vines and gardens. The nomination describes it as the only such cottage and garden known to Valley historians still intact on its original land.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1911)","architect_builder":"Lovell Hill & Willard Johnson","architectural_style":"Bungalow type, a cross between Western Stick style and California Bungalow (mostly bungalow)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and in good condition; owned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, with a caretaker's trailer on the property and the historical society proposing uses for a former pro shop.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.234767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/79000480.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000480/9e50f11e17-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000480/9e50f11e17-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minnie_Hill_Palmer_House,_Chatsworth.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</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:Minnie_Hill_Palmer_House,_Chatsworth.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859382","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Hill_Palmer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6868808"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/palmer-minnie-hill-house-79000480/"}