{"nrhp_refnum":"84000933","name":"Alkali Flat North Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"D and 11th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sacramento","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.586507288000064,"lon":-121.48897369499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district of 18 buildings on two city blocks along D Street and 11th Street in the Alkali Flat neighborhood of Sacramento, California. Most of the 19th century houses date from 1860 to 1896, with two cottages from about 1910.","why_significant":"The district is one of three areas in Alkali Flat that still keep their 19th century sense of time and place. It holds distinguished examples of 19th century design, including a rare 1860 Italianate masonry house, and it reflects Sacramento's early development and settlement patterns. It also shows the building speculation by railroad employees that was common in the neighborhood.","narrative":"This small cluster of 19th century houses sits at the corner of D and 11th Streets in Sacramento's Alkali Flat, a neighborhood once covered with powdery white alkali. Eighteen buildings fall within the district, mostly workingmen's cottages and modest homes built between 1860 and 1896, plus two Colonial Revival cottages from about 1910. The oldest is 1119 D Street, a two-story Italianate masonry house built in 1860 by Maria Hastings, who owned the Orleans Hotel in the 1850s. Carpenter Phil Douglas built a cottage in 1869, another house in 1872, and four identical Queen Anne row cottages in 1896-1897. Hugh McDonald built the Eastlake houses at 1123 and 1129 D Street. Both men worked for the railroad and speculated in building, a pattern common in the neighborhood. Modern industry and commercial strips have cut away the surrounding blocks, but this remnant keeps the scale, materials and setbacks of a late 19th century working-class neighborhood.","period_of_significance":"1860 to 1910","architect_builder":"See text: Maria Hastings (1119 D Street, 1860); Phil Douglas (1107 D, 1103 D and the 11th Street row cottages); Hugh McDonald (1123 and 1129 D Street)","architectural_style":"19th century residential styles including Italianate, Queen Anne, Eastlake, Stick/Eastlake, Greek Revival-based vernacular and Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Of 18 buildings, 14 contribute and four do not; one lot is vacant. The form describes the condition as deteriorated and altered, with the original site retained. One house at 1120 D Street is boarded and fenced.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.830601-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84000933.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000933/5b99c0c840-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000933/5b99c0c840-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Oscar mostofi","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alkali_Flat_North_Historic_District,_Sacramento,_California.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar mostofi</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:Alkali_Flat_North_Historic_District,_Sacramento,_California.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860535","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49472196"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/alkali-flat-north-historic-district-84000933/"}