{"nrhp_refnum":"84000887","name":"Scripps College for Women","other_names":["Scripps College"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Columbia and 10th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Claremont","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.10492073650005,"lon":-117.70908766921148,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Scripps College Historic District is a planned women's college campus at Columbia and 10th Streets in Claremont, California, with 10 major academic and residential buildings and formal gardens. Eight buildings were designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann, with landscaping by Edward Huntsman-Trout, following campus plans laid out in 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the campus is very likely the Claremont area's most architecturally significant complex and is unusually unified for a college. It was planned as a whole in 1926 in the Mediterranean style, and has kept its integrity. Kaufmann, a leading Mediterranean-style architect, considered it his finest work.","narrative":"Scripps College in Claremont, California, is a walled women's college campus planned as a single design in 1926. Gordon B. Kaufmann designed eight of its ten major buildings, including the Toll, Grace Scripps, Ellen Browning and Susan Miller Dorsey residence halls and the Denison Library. Edward Huntsman-Trout laid out the formal gardens, courtyards and lawns, drawing on Italian Renaissance garden models. The buildings share creamy white stucco, red tile roofs and a residential scale, none rising above three stories. The nomination presents the campus as unusually unified for a college, with the Mediterranean style chosen deliberately to suit the study of arts and humanities. It notes that the original landscaping and buildings are largely intact, the main change being the 1970 Humanities Building on the former olive grove. Buildings continue in their original uses, and the campus contrasts with the housing tracts that have grown up around it. Kaufmann regarded it as his finest work.","period_of_significance":"1927-1970","architect_builder":"Gordon B. Kaufmann (major architect); Edward Huntsman-Trout (landscape architect); Sumner Hunt (Balch Hall, in collaboration with Kaufmann)","architectural_style":"Mediterranean / Spanish Gothic; Spanish Colonial Revival; President's House is Period Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Each building is still used as originally intended and is in good condition; Balch Hall was restored in 1979-1980 and restoration of the four oldest residence halls was planned for 1980-1982.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.893272-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84000887.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000887/326e88f1ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000887/326e88f1ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lure Photography","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scripps_College_for_Women-9.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lure Photography</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:Scripps_College_for_Women-9.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859498","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripps_College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10664609"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/scripps-college-for-women-84000887/"}