{"nrhp_refnum":"82002243","name":"Rozas House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"31 Polk St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Juan Bautista","county":"San Benito County","state":"CA","lat":36.84475093000003,"lon":-121.53898685399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood frame, L-shaped building of six rooms at 31 Polk Street in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California, probably built in 1856 and attributed to a Chilean merchant named Samit (also spelled Sammit).","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare wood frame structure from the early American period in a town of mostly adobe landmarks, and is considered the oldest wood frame structure in San Juan Bautista. It is also tied to the settlement and continuing occupation of the town by old Hispanic California families. Its plan adapts a common mid-nineteenth century California vernacular form of street-facing units to wood frame construction, which is described as quite unusual.","narrative":"Six rooms in a long, L-shaped wood frame building line Polk Street in San Juan Bautista, California. Probably built in 1856 by a Chilean merchant named Samit, it is an early example of board-on-end construction without wall studs. Each room opens by its own door onto the street and onto a rear porch, a plan that appears to derive from a common mid-nineteenth century California vernacular form of rooms facing a courtyard, here executed in wood rather than adobe. The nomination considers it the oldest wood frame structure in a town known for its adobe landmarks. Ambrosio Rozas, Sr. bought the house soon after it was built for his son, Ambrosio Rozas, Jr. His wife, Emelda Lugo Rozas, granddaughter of Los Angeles alcalde Antonio Maria Lugo, lived there until 1950, a total of 75 years. Original room divisions, doors, trim, and roof framing survive, though the porches were added later.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Sammit (attributed)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; condition is marked deteriorated and altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.943695-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002243.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002243/65a4ee6051-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002243/65a4ee6051-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Eugene Zelenko","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA-San_Juan_Bautista-Rozas_House-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugene Zelenko</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:USA-San_Juan_Bautista-Rozas_House-1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860710","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozas_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683842"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-benito-county/rozas-house-82002243/"}