{"nrhp_refnum":"85003374","name":"Newland House","other_names":["The Newland House Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19820 Beach Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington Beach","county":"Orange County","state":"CA","lat":33.67632410900006,"lon":-117.98799663099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1-1/2-story frame Victorian ranch house at 19820 Beach Blvd., Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, built in 1898 for William and Mary Newland and now a house museum on a 2/3-acre remnant of a 500-acre ranch.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving pre-1900 building in Huntington Beach and the only known Queen Anne style house in the city. It remained a working family ranch house into the 1950s without being moved or significantly altered. It is also tied to William and Mary Newland, who helped found the city's first schools, churches, newspaper and bank.","narrative":"Built in May 1898 for rancher William Newland and his wife Mary, this 1-1/2-story frame Victorian sits on a blufftop at 19820 Beach Blvd. in Huntington Beach. Santa Ana contractors Dawes and Kuechel built it for $1,430. Its most notable feature is an octagonal turret with its own peaked roof. A sunporch and sleeping room were added in 1915 for a recovering daughter and to display Mary Newland's Indian basket collection. The house now occupies two-thirds of an acre, all that remains of a 500-acre ranch, along with a water tower. It is valued as a rare pre-1900 building in a city where many houses were torn down or moved after oil was found in the 1920s. The Newlands also helped shape the town, supporting its first schools, church, newspaper and bank. Restored and furnished with items from 1900 to 1920, it operates as the city's only house museum.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Dawes and Kuechel, Santa Ana contractors","architectural_style":"Queen Anne (Victorian)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored and open to the public as a house museum, the only one in Huntington Beach; condition listed as excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.950189-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85003374.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003374/378b1e5922-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003374/378b1e5922-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"CathyHatfield","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newland_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">CathyHatfield</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:Newland_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43148391"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/orange-county/newland-house-85003374/"}