{"nrhp_refnum":"84000883","name":"Reeve, Jennie A., House","other_names":["Reeve-Townsend House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4260 Country Club Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Long Beach","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.83421080200003,"lon":-118.19573888199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story shingled residence at 4260 Country Club Drive in Long Beach, California, designed by architects Charles and Henry Greene and built in 1904 on an oceanfront site. It was moved twice, in 1917 and 1927, and Henry Greene designed a major addition in 1927.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a notable work of Greene and Greene, whose work is regarded as the highest level of the Arts and Crafts movement in America. It is described as the pivotal design in which the Greenes first combined their articulated wood structural vocabulary, which influenced American house design for decades. It also anticipated their masterpieces of 1907-09.","narrative":"Designed in January 1904 by architects Charles and Henry Greene, this two-story shingled house was first built for Jennie A. Reeve on an oceanfront corner in Long Beach. It was saved from demolition in 1917 when Dr. V. Ray Townsend moved it inland, and in 1927 he moved it again to Country Club Drive. Henry Greene supervised the final move, the new landscaping and a large side addition. The house shows the Greenes' exposed timber construction, cross-gabled roofs with broad eaves, bands of casement windows, slit windows for ventilation, and a central cluster of three fireplaces. The nomination treats it as the design where the Greenes first brought together their full range of ideas, including simple materials, expressed joinery, attention to light and air, and control over furniture, glass, hardware and landscape. It is presented as a forerunner of their later masterpieces. Restoration is under way.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"1904 Architects Greene and Greene; 1927 Architect Henry M. Greene","architectural_style":"California Bungalow; Greene and Greene Arts and Crafts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; in good to excellent condition and undergoing serious restoration to correct changes made by interim owners.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.193023-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84000883.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000883/424c20893b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000883/424c20893b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sandylwilson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jennie_Reeve_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandylwilson</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:Jennie_Reeve_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859451","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133273462"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/reeve-jennie-a-house-84000883/"}