{"nrhp_refnum":"85001563","name":"Woodside Store","other_names":["Tripp Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"471 Kings Mountain Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodside","county":"San Mateo County","state":"CA","lat":37.430235982000056,"lon":-122.27714543999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Health/Medicine","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1-1/2 story redwood board-and-batten general store built in 1854 at 471 Kings Mountain Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, California, on a 1.18-acre lot with an attached shed, feed barn and a later rear barn.","why_significant":"Dating from 1854, it is one of the earliest tangible remains of American settlement on the San Francisco Peninsula and a rare, notable example of a redwood board-and-batten rural store. It is tied to pioneer Dr. Robert O. Tripp, who ran it for decades. It served as store, post office, bank, dental office, library site and community center, and its account books and library records survive.","narrative":"Built in 1854 from local redwood, this board-and-batten store sits at the corner of Kings Mountain and Tripp Roads near Woodside, at the meeting point of two old logging trails. It began as a two-story frame building and gained a shed and feed barn by the 1870s, with a small barn added around 1900. Its founders, Dr. Robert O. Tripp and Mathias Parkhurst, started as shingle splitters and loggers. The store held a post office from 1854, and over time also functioned as a bank, dental office, toll station, winery headquarters and the site of the county's first library, established in 1858. Tripp owned it until his death in 1909. The county bought it in 1940, and it has operated as a limited-hours museum since 1947. It is valued as a rare surviving example of an early California rural store, and for the account books and library records that document local commerce and life.","period_of_significance":"1854-1909","architect_builder":"Dr. Robert O. Tripp, M. A. Parkhurst","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"County-owned and open on a limited basis as a museum since 1947; fair condition, relatively unaltered apart from a modern restroom and picnic tables; restoration work is ongoing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.996439-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85001563.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001563/4c738c8719-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001563/4c738c8719-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodside_Store,_471_Kings_Mountain_Rd.,_Woodside,_CA_9-18-2011_5-30-50_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:Woodside_Store,_471_Kings_Mountain_Rd.,_Woodside,_CA_9-18-2011_5-30-50_PM.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861577","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodside_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35766100"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-mateo-county/woodside-store-85001563/"}