{"nrhp_refnum":"82002205","name":"Coulterville Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coulterville","county":"Mariposa County","state":"CA","lat":37.710629149000056,"lon":-120.19836980899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-03-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district of twenty-five structures along both sides of Main Street in Coulterville, a Mother Lode town in Mariposa County, California, west of Yosemite National Park. Buildings date from the 1850s to the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district is described as one of the better preserved commercial districts in California's Mother Lode and is largely unchanged since 1900. Its buildings show the cycle of boom, fire and rebuilding that shaped the town, including reuse of 1850s and 1860s masonry shells after the fire of 1899. The town's history also ties to gold mining, Chinese immigrant commerce, and Yosemite tourism via the Coulterville turnpike.","narrative":"Main Street in Coulterville, a foothill town west of Yosemite National Park, forms a commercial district of twenty-five structures that preserves much of its appearance from around 1900. Its buildings record the town's nineteenth-century pattern of boom, fire and rebuilding: a dozen of the contributing structures stand on brick, stone or adobe shells from the 1850s and 1860s, topped with wood-frame additions built after the 1899 fire. Notable buildings include the three-story Jeffrey Hotel, rebuilt in 1903 to house President Theodore Roosevelt's party, the 1851 Sun Sun Wo Company adobe store, one of the oldest surviving structures tied to Chinese immigrants in California, and Candy's House, the last remnant of the old red-light district. The district also reflects the town's role in Yosemite tourism, since the Coulterville turnpike was the first stagecoach road to reach the valley floor. Few Highway 49 towns have kept their historic character as intact.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mother Lode commercial and vernacular buildings, including masonry shells with wood-frame additions, adobe, and wood-frame structures with three-sided porches","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as one of the better preserved Mother Lode commercial districts, largely unchanged since 1900. Several buildings are occupied by businesses or residences, while many others are vacant and one (Gazzola's Store) is in ruins.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.839006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002205.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002205/7c2a8c435a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002205/7c2a8c435a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bobak Ha'Eri","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0724-CA-Coulterville-HND.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobak Ha'Eri</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0724-CA-Coulterville-HND.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859737","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49480474"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mariposa-county/coulterville-main-street-historic-district-82002205/"}