{"nrhp_refnum":"86002396","name":"Green Gables-Fleischhacker, Mortimer, Country House","other_names":["Fleishhacker Estate"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"329 Albin Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodside","county":"San Mateo County","state":"CA","lat":37.43292756500006,"lon":-122.26801906923757,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Green Gables is a 75-acre country estate in Woodside, San Mateo County, California, with a main house built in 1911 and extensive gardens, outbuildings and farm structures. The house and landscape were designed by Greene and Greene, chiefly Charles Sumner Greene, for Mortimer Fleishhacker and his wife.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Green Gables as a masterwork in which one designer planned a house and landscape as a unified composition for one patron. It argues the estate has the earliest shingle roof imitating thatch, the first free-form swimming pool and one of the first gunite-surfaced buildings in its area, and that it is the last great estate there with land, use and ownership intact. It also notes the historic owners were significant figures in Northern California banking, industry and philanthropy.","narrative":"Green Gables is a 75-acre country estate in central Woodside, planned as a rustic summer residence. The main house, completed in 1911 to designs by Greene and Greene, has curved-edged gabled roofs of wood shingles laid to imitate thatch, gunite walls and brick trim. Terraced gardens descend southeast from the house to a lily pond and then to a long Roman pool framed by arcades of rough stone. Other features include a swimming pool with bathhouses, a stone dairy house, a barn remnant, a Wurster-designed house, and an older Victorian farmstead. Nineteen built resources are counted, thirteen of them contributing. The estate is significant for its architecture and landscape, largely designed over several decades by Charles Sumner Greene for Mortimer Fleishhacker and his wife, and for the owners' roles in banking, industry and San Francisco philanthropy. It has remained in the family across three generations, with land, use and ownership intact.","period_of_significance":"1911-1935","architect_builder":"Greene & Greene; C. S. Greene; Wm. Wurster","architectural_style":"Greene and Greene's English style (main house); landscape with Beaux-Arts-inspired near symmetry","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in excellent condition, altered; some farm structures such as a greenhouse are badly deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.57893-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/86002396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002396/1e5a31e197-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002396/1e5a31e197-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mortimer_Fleishhacker_House_(rear_view).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mortimer_Fleishhacker_House_(rear_view).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861510","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Fleishhacker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101185519"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-mateo-county/green-gables-fleischhacker-mortimer-country-house-86002396/"}