{"nrhp_refnum":"81000181","name":"Bowerman Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Trinity Center on Guy Covington Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Trinity Center","county":"Trinity County","state":"CA","lat":40.89995138900008,"lon":-122.76796528599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story hand-built wooden barn constructed in 1878 on the former Bowerman Ranch, about one mile south of Trinity Center, Trinity County, California, now on Shasta-Trinity National Forest land.","why_significant":"The barn is argued to be significant as an increasingly rare example of hand-crafted construction and for its association with the growth of local commerce through the Bowerman ranch's cattle, dairy and stage-road inn business. No other hand-crafted barn of comparable age or preservation survives in Trinity County. It remains in its original location with exceptional integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1878 by Jacob Bowerman and others, this two-story barn stands about one mile south of Trinity Center in Trinity County, California. It measures forty by sixty feet and was made with whipsawn lumber, hand-hewn pine beams, mortise-and-tenon joints secured with hardwood pegs, and a foundation of hand-placed native stone. Board-and-batten siding still shows traces of its original red ochre paint. The barn belonged to a ranch on the stage road between Weaverville and Trinity Center, where the Bowermans raised beef cattle and dairy stock and sold butter and beef to local businesses and miners. Anna Bowerman also ran a small inn for travelers. The ranch left family hands in 1931, and by 1974 the barn served only for storage. The Forest Service acquired the land that year and carried out partial restoration in 1975. Its age, rare hand-crafted construction and exceptional integrity make it the best surviving example of its kind in the county.","period_of_significance":"1878","architect_builder":"Jacob Bowerman, et al.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent and unaltered in the main; partial restoration was done in 1975. The barn was used for storage by 1974 and the surrounding pasture and cattle chute are used seasonally under a grazing permit.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.027109-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/81000181.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000181/e46ef0158e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000181/e46ef0158e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"NoeHill","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bowerman_Barn.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:Bowerman_Barn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862197","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerman_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14681630"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/trinity-county/bowerman-barn-81000181/"}