{"nrhp_refnum":"80000819","name":"Getchell, O. W., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"CA 1","address_restricted":false,"city":"Anchor Bay","county":"Mendocino County","state":"CA","lat":38.79659083200005,"lon":-123.56905324799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, wood-frame, eleven-room house of about 40' by 44' on a two-acre wooded bluff site along State Highway One near Collins Landing, just south of Anchor Bay, Mendocino County, California. It was built about 1870 by Osgood W. Getchell.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the house to the north coast redwood timber industry and the lumber schooner trade between the coast and San Francisco. It was built by a timber merchant who owned schooners and sited the house to overlook the loading cove. It is also described as one of very few first-generation homes surviving in the area and a wood-frame building that outlasted the 1906 earthquake and forest fires.","narrative":"Overlooking the Pacific from a bluff beside State Highway One near Collins Landing, south of Anchor Bay, this two-story redwood-framed house was built about 1870 by Osgood W. Getchell. Getchell was an early settler who cut and sold redwood timber and came to own several lumber schooners. He placed the house so he could watch the cove and the landing where ships took on lumber, and a flagpole in the yard is said to have been used to signal his captains. The house has intersecting gable roofs, broken pediments on the east and west ends, shiplap siding, and an interior that keeps a cherry wood balustrade, wood ceilings and two fireplaces. A later rear lean-to was slated for removal. The property was recognized for its link to the region's timber and maritime trade and as one of few early wood-frame homes to survive the area's fires and the 1906 earthquake.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"O.W. Getchell","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in good, largely unaltered condition on its original site. A rear one-story lean-to addition is scheduled for removal. Correspondence in the file notes the property was threatened with possible demolition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.604255-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/80000819.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000819/82a61b550d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000819/82a61b550d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NoeHill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osgood_W._Getchell_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NoeHill</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:Osgood_W._Getchell_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859797","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133305477"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mendocino-county/getchell-o-w-house-80000819/"}