{"nrhp_refnum":"82000982","name":"Fontana Farms Company Ranch House, Camp No. 1","other_names":["Pepper Street House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8863 Pepper St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fontana","county":"San Bernardino County","state":"CA","lat":34.09282440800007,"lon":-117.44185855699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story concrete block ranch house at 8863 Pepper Street in Fontana, San Bernardino County, California, built in 1905-1906 by the Fontana Development Company as Camp #1 of its farming operation.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its association with the agricultural development of Southern California from 1905 to 1944. It was the first permanent building in the settlement of Rosena, which became the city of Fontana in 1913. It served as field headquarters and manager's residence for a farming operation of about 18,000 acres, and it remains a reminder of the area's agrarian era before steel mill-driven urbanization.","narrative":"Built in 1905-1906, this one-story concrete block house at 8863 Pepper Street in Fontana served as Camp #1, the central field headquarters of the Fontana Development Company's farming operation. It measures about 25 by 34 feet and has a hip roof, small curved dormers, an eight-foot front porch with square block columns, and a small brick-lined cellar. The pitched stone-face block may have been cast on site from nearby river sand. It was the first permanent structure in the settlement of Rosena, later Fontana, and housed the managers who oversaw some twenty other farm camps across 18,000 acres. Camp #1 itself cultivated 3,000 acres of barley and oats, alongside beef, hog, chicken and citrus production. By the 1940s, steel mill construction and housing growth ended the area's rural character. The house remains on its original site, now on a city lot among postwar homes, and stands as a reminder of that earlier agricultural period.","period_of_significance":"1905-1944","architect_builder":"Fontana Development Company","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and on its original site, with the original fireplace removed; the form lists the property as unoccupied with work in progress and a museum use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.011523-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82000982.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000982/3807437e74-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000982/3807437e74-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FONTANA_FARMS_COMPANY_RANCH_HOUSE_SAN_BERNARDINO_COUNTY_CA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FONTANA_FARMS_COMPANY_RANCH_HOUSE_SAN_BERNARDINO_COUNTY_CA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860751","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_Farms_Company_Ranch_House,_Camp_No._1","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20714664"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-bernardino-county/fontana-farms-company-ranch-house-camp-no-1-82000982/"}