{"nrhp_refnum":"86001878","name":"Morse-Skinner Ranch House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"13063 N. CA 99","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lodi","county":"San Joaquin County","state":"CA","lat":38.09744527200007,"lon":-121.26076492299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame ranch house built in 1869 on a one-acre remnant of a once-larger ranch on the Highway 99 frontage road, less than a mile south of Lodi, San Joaquin County, California. It was built by Lorenzo Marion Morse and remodeled in 1912.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with three successive generations of a pioneer Lodi family (Morse and Skinner) who contributed to the town's agricultural, financial and educational growth and to its naming. It is also valued as a vernacular Greek Revival house with Colonial Revival modifications, and as one of very few ranch houses of its age remaining in the area.","narrative":"Less than a mile south of Lodi, a two-story wood frame ranch house sits on a one-acre remnant of a ranch that once exceeded 200 acres. Lorenzo Marion Morse, a Lodi pioneer who came to California by ox-drawn wagon in 1859, built it in 1869 in a vernacular Greek Revival manner, with two gabled rectangles, eave returns and simple moldings. His son E. E. Morse added a Colonial Revival porch with Tuscan columns and an ornamented pediment around 1912. A tank house of the same period also contributes to the property, while a 1940s garage does not. The Morse family is credited with helping name Lodi and with planting the area's first Tokay grapes in 1892. E. E. Morse helped found local banks and supported a new high school, and son-in-law John Carroll Skinner, an automobile dealer and racer, later helped set grape marketing standards. The house is one of very few ranch houses of its age left in the area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown; built by Lorenzo Marion Morse (owner/builder per the narrative), remodeled c. 1912 by E. E. Morse","architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival with Colonial Revival modifications","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant, with work in progress; condition is described as altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.078664-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/86001878.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861403","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-joaquin-county/morse-skinner-ranch-house-86001878/"}