{"nrhp_refnum":"82002154","name":"Park Street Historic Commercial District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Oak St., Park, Lincoln, and Encinal Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Alameda","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.76458160350006,"lon":-122.24238063683315,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-05-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown commercial historic district in Alameda, California, covering three blocks of Park Street and parts of Lincoln, Webb, Santa Clara, Alameda and Central Avenues. It contains 72 tabulated buildings, mostly one- or two-story brick or frame storefronts built from the 1880s through the 1930s.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a largely intact historic commercial core, with 55 percent of its buildings dating before 1910. It includes a cluster of Victorian wood and brick buildings, large masonry institutional buildings, theatres, banks and Park Street blocks in neo-classical, Spanish Renaissance and Art Deco designs. Early commercial nodes grew near the cross traffic of train lines.","narrative":"Park Street's downtown commercial strip in Alameda, together with portions of the cross streets, forms a district of 72 buildings, most of them one- or two-story brick or frame structures with storefronts below and apartments or other uses above. Nearly all contain at least one storefront, and 40 of them were built before 1910. Older groupings sit near the Encinal Avenue and Lincoln Avenue ends, where early commercial activity gathered around train-line cross traffic. A notable cluster of Victorian wood and brick buildings lines the north side of Santa Clara Avenue, including a Stick style building from 1892. Larger masonry landmarks anchor the district, among them the granite-faced Old Post Office of 1912, the Masonic buildings and two theatres. Banks at the main intersections use monumental neo-classical fronts, and several Park Street blocks carry neo-classical, Spanish Renaissance or Art Deco themes. The mix of eras and styles records the commercial growth of downtown Alameda over about six decades.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Various; examples named include Frank Bauman, Joseph Leonard, Wm. A. Newman, McRae Brothers, J. H. Pickerell, William Knowles and Fleeter & Windlund","architectural_style":"Mixed commercial styles, including Stick style Victorian, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, neo-classical, Spanish Renaissance, Art Deco, Moderne and Moorish","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is given as excellent to good, partly altered, with the district occupied and some buildings unoccupied; one listed storefront is noted as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.413141-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002154.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002154/452cf7e6c7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002154/452cf7e6c7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lorahlove","credit_html":"Lorahlove, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Street_Historic_Commercial_District_03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Street_Historic_Commercial_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49539411"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/park-street-historic-commercial-district-82002154/"}