{"nrhp_refnum":"85001984","name":"Sweetser Residence","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"417 E. Beryl St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Redondo Beach","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.84914167000005,"lon":-118.38877115099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story clapboard Colonial Revival house with two outbuildings and a formal garden, at 417 E. Beryl Street in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California. It was built in 1921 to a design by architect E. W. Stillwell.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the foremost example of Colonial Revival residential architecture in Redondo Beach, a style not common in the area. It also recalls the period when the city shifted from a beach resort to a year-round residential community. Its quality design helped give the city a stable image that encouraged other families to build.","narrative":"Built in 1921, this two-story clapboard house at the corner of Beryl Street and Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach is an unaltered example of American Colonial Revival architecture. It was designed by local architect E. W. Stillwell for a merchant family who had moved to the city in 1911 and supplied ships calling at the harbor. The symmetrical front has a porticoed entrance with a broken pediment, garlands and a medallion, plus shuttered sash windows and French windows. Two matching outbuildings and a formal garden complete the grounds. Inside, a carved mantel, original sconces and hardware, South American gum-wood trim and hand-painted, stencilled canvas wall coverings survive. At the time, most local housing consisted of clapboard vacation cottages and Spanish Colonial Revival stucco homes, so the house stood in clear contrast. It is also valued as evidence of Redondo Beach's change from a transient resort into a community of year-round family homes.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1921)","architect_builder":"E. W. Stillwell","architectural_style":"American Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in excellent condition, unaltered apart from a 1930s kitchen remodelling, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.951487-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85001984.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001984/36885ee1f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001984/36885ee1f5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"ChildofMidnight","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:417_Beryl.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ChildofMidnight</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:417_Beryl.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859570","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133294838"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/sweetser-residence-85001984/"}