{"nrhp_refnum":"85000715","name":"Kee House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2310 Yale St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Palo Alto","county":"Santa Clara County","state":"CA","lat":37.42423383400006,"lon":-122.14757092199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story residence with an attic at 2310 Yale Street in the College Terrace area of Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, completed in 1889 for Robert Norton Kee. The builder or architect is not identified.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of the oldest surviving residences in Palo Alto and the oldest dwelling remaining from the village of Mayfield. It was among the first houses finished in College Terrace. It represents the housing of a typical middle-class owner and shows a common pattern of later conversion to rooming or apartment use. It is also called the anchor of its neighborhood.","narrative":"This two-story wood-frame house at 2310 Yale Street in Palo Alto was completed in 1889 for Robert Norton Kee, who ran a transfer business in Mayfield and bought four lots in the new College Terrace tract. It is a simplified Italianate building with Eastlake details, including a truncated hip roof, turned porch posts, sawn brackets and a paneled frieze. A gazebo, tool shed and large garage or barn appear to be original. The house was converted to a boarding house and apartments in the late 1920s and 1930s, with porches partly enclosed and a small apartment wing added at the rear. It is considered one of the oldest surviving residences in Palo Alto and the oldest remaining dwelling from the village of Mayfield. Its history, first as a family home and later as rental housing for students and teachers, is described as typical of many such houses. A local rezoning measure was adopted to protect the surrounding neighborhood.","period_of_significance":"1889","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Simplified Italianate with some Eastlake elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in excellent condition, used as a private residence. Apartment conversions from the 1930s remained, and the owners hoped to restore single-family use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.568747-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85000715.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000715/5cfb4772d5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000715/5cfb4772d5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kee_House,_2310_Yale_St.,_Palo_Alto,_CA_6-3-2012_3-48-19_PM.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</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:Kee_House,_2310_Yale_St.,_Palo_Alto,_CA_6-3-2012_3-48-19_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861715","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_House_(Palo_Alto,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152891"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/santa-clara-county/kee-house-85000715/"}