{"nrhp_refnum":"86001666","name":"Wilson, Warren, Beach House","other_names":["Venice Beach House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 Thirtieth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Venice","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.97963133500008,"lon":-118.46666425599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-07-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Craftsman Bungalow of about 4,272 square feet at No. 15 Thirtieth Avenue in Venice, Los Angeles, California, built in 1911 for newspaper owner Warren Wilson. It sits on three lots a few hundred yards from the ocean and pier.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the finest single-family Craftsman Bungalow in Venice, larger and more refined than others in the community. It is also tied to Warren Wilson and Abbot Kinney, both significant in Venice and Los Angeles history. It illustrates beach-area settlement patterns and early twentieth-century vacation customs.","narrative":"Built in 1911 a few hundred yards from the Venice Pier, this two-story Craftsman Bungalow served as a beach retreat for Warren Wilson, owner and editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal, his wife and eight children. It has a multi-gabled roof with deep overhangs, a stucco first floor, shiplap upper story, brick porch walls, a port cochere and many multi-paned casement windows. Inside are boxed beam ceilings, built-in bookcases, brick fireplaces and wide woodwork with corner blocks. The house stands on three lots, unusual for a home so close to the ocean, and much of its original fabric survives despite some enclosed porches and repairs after a fire. Wilson was known for editorials favoring women's suffrage and justice reform, and two of his daughters married sons of Venice founder Abbot Kinney. The house is valued as the best single-family Craftsman example in Venice and as a reminder of the resort community's heyday between 1905 and 1922. It now operates as a bed-and-breakfast.","period_of_significance":"1900- (built 1911)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Craftsman Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent condition, altered; now used as a bed-and-breakfast inn.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.343847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/86001666.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001666/6c05ddae24-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001666/6c05ddae24-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warren_Wilson_Beach_House_(The_Venice_Beach_House),_Venice,_California.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</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:Warren_Wilson_Beach_House_(The_Venice_Beach_House),_Venice,_California.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859625","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Wilson_Beach_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970593"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/wilson-warren-beach-house-86001666/"}