{"nrhp_refnum":"80000853","name":"Guthrie House","other_names":["Bianchini House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Burton and Center Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambria","county":"San Luis Obispo County","state":"CA","lat":35.56355165100007,"lon":-121.08199702499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-01-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story frame residence at the northeast corner of Burton and Center Streets in Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, California, begun as a saltbox around 1870 with a western addition around 1890. Builder and architect are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a visual reminder of Cambria's early settlement pattern of residential streets parallel to Main Street. It is also a fine example of small-town architectural development. It documents the shift in nineteenth-century building technology, from sawn to lathe-turned porch posts.","narrative":"Guthrie House is a one-story wood-frame home at Burton and Center Streets in Cambria, California. Its eastern section began as a simple saltbox around 1870, and a western section, probably added around 1890, created a complex roofline of intersecting gables. Both parts use locally milled native pine, a product of the sawmill established in the late 1860s. Samuel Guthrie, a Cambria merchant, was an early resident, and the Bianchini family bought the house in 1914. The nomination values the house for three reasons: it recalls the early pattern of residential streets growing parallel to Main Street, it shows how small-town homes were enlarged and remodeled over time, and it records a change in building technology, visible in the move from flat sawn porch posts to lathe-turned ones. A large Port Orford Cedar stands beside the house. The nomination describes the building as used for storage and threatened with demolition for a parking lot.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1870; addition ca. 1890","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular saltbox with later western addition; Greek Revival window trim","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as presently used for storage, in fair condition, on its original site; the nomination says it is in imminent danger of demolition for a parking lot.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.829439-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/80000853.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000853/9d2c4c87c7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000853/9d2c4c87c7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Missvain","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambria_Historical_Museum_-_September_2023_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Missvain</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambria_Historical_Museum_-_September_2023_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861462","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133520983"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-luis-obispo-county/guthrie-house-80000853/"}