{"nrhp_refnum":"81000161","name":"Sun House","other_names":["Hudson-Carpenter Estate"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"431 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ukiah","county":"Mendocino County","state":"CA","lat":39.14751366000007,"lon":-123.20548187399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-09-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Native American","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story, seven-room craftsman-bungalow house at 431 South Main Street in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, built in 1911-1912 and designed by George L. Wilcox. It sits on 0.4 acre and is now a city-owned museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the most important example of craftsman/bungalow architecture of the early 1900s in Mendocino County, built of massive local redwood. It is also tied to owner-builders Grace Hudson, a nationally recognized painter, and Dr. John Hudson, an ethnologist who recorded the Pomo language and collected artifacts. The house retains the integrity it had during the Hudsons' time.","narrative":"Sun House is a redwood craftsman-bungalow at 431 South Main Street in Ukiah, built in 1911-1912 to a design by architect and artist George L. Wilcox. The square, board-and-batten dwelling has seven rooms, a gable roof with wide eaves, two brick fireplaces, redwood paneling and beams, and an artist's studio. It stands on 0.4 acre among redwoods, oaks and gardens. Grace Hudson, a nationally recognized painter, and her husband, Dr. John Hudson, an ethnologist who recorded the Pomo language and collected baskets and other artifacts, lived and worked here from 1911 to 1937. The nomination presents the house as the most important example of this early twentieth-century style in Mendocino County, notable for its use of local redwood and Indian-inspired designs worked into the wood. Later owners kept it largely original, and it was sold to the City of Ukiah to serve as an art and historical museum. Only minor alterations, such as a 1938 roof change and a 1940s bedroom enlargement, are noted.","period_of_significance":"1911 - 1937","architect_builder":"George L. Wilcox","architectural_style":"Craftsman or bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Ukiah and used as a museum; the form checks both occupied and unoccupied status, and describes the house as altered in a few minor aspects but retaining its original character.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.330596-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/81000161.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000161/58b11ddb04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000161/58b11ddb04-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Binksternet","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SunHouseDoor.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Binksternet</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SunHouseDoor.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859824","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hudson_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5591222"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mendocino-county/sun-house-81000161/"}