{"nrhp_refnum":"82002165","name":"McCrea House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3500 Mountain Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oakland","county":"Alameda County","state":"CA","lat":37.801797786000066,"lon":-122.18618356099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-02-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame private residence on the southwest corner of the Holy Names College campus at 3500 Mountain Boulevard, Oakland, California, built in 1913 by San Francisco architect George McCrea around earlier Peralta-family adobe and wood-frame structures.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved early twentieth-century architect-built home that shows the better characteristics of Bay Tradition architecture, with individual design, honest use of wood framing and careful adaptation to its natural and historical setting. McCrea deliberately built the house around a Peralta-era adobe chapel and other structures from the first half of the nineteenth century, preserving much of the original material.","narrative":"Set on the Holy Names College campus in the Oakland Hills, this one-story wood-frame house, with a two-story kitchen and bedroom wing, was completed in 1913 as the private home of architect George McCrea. He built it around a cluster of earlier structures raised by the Peralta family in the first half of the nineteenth century, including an adobe chapel whose wall survives, plastered, inside the dining room. Much of the original building material was kept, and McCrea added bay windows, French doors, new siding and pergolas. His landscaping kept exotic plants introduced by Mexican-era settlers and paths that once led to a nearby Native American site, which was destroyed in the 1960s. The house is regarded as a well-preserved example of Bay Tradition architecture, notable for its honest wood framing and for the way it answers to its historic and natural setting. Holy Names College acquired the 1.7-acre parcel in 1962. Only minor alterations have occurred since McCrea's time.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1913)","architect_builder":"George McCrea","architectural_style":"Bay Tradition","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, occupied, unaltered since 1913 apart from minor changes; the form lists educational use and the landscaping as largely intact but needing careful tending.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.467017-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002165.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002165/bc4fd0450a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002165/bc4fd0450a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCrea_House_(Oakland,_CA).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</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:McCrea_House_(Oakland,_CA).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858276","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133253477"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/alameda-county/mccrea-house-82002165/"}