{"nrhp_refnum":"87000623","name":"Six Sisters-Lawn Way Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by San Jose Ave., Capitola Ave., and Esplanade","address_restricted":false,"city":"Capitola","county":"Santa Cruz County","state":"CA","lat":36.97242511700006,"lon":-121.96221847599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the heart of Capitola Village, Santa Cruz County, California, made up of 16 to 22 mostly frame buildings around a cross-axial pedestrian village green called Lawn Way. It includes the late-1800s Six Sisters Victorian apartments on the Esplanade and early 1900s cottages (c. 1910-1914).","why_significant":"The district is described as an intact residential enclave linked to Capitola's formally landscaped village green and to the resort developed under Frederick A. Hihn. It is the community's most important surviving link to its turn-of-the-century seaside resort era. The Six Sisters are the city's earliest two-story cottages, and the Lawn Way cottages are unique in Capitola for their formal arrangement around a pedestrian walkway.","narrative":"Six Sisters-Lawn Way is a small group of buildings in the center of Capitola Village, arranged around Lawn Way, a cross-axial pedestrian green. Two building types define it: six near-identical two-story Victorian apartments on the Esplanade, known as the Six Sisters, and one- and two-story gable-front cottages, mostly built between 1910 and 1914, that line the walkway. The buildings are mainly wood frame with weatherboard and shingle siding, and their entrances sit flush or recessed along the walkway. The area grew out of Camp Capitola, the seaside resort founded by Frederick A. Hihn, and the Six Sisters were built after the grand Hotel Capitola opened in 1895. The district is valued as the city's most cohesive reminder of its peak years as a resort. It holds the earliest two-story cottages in Capitola and its only formal village green. Some buildings have been converted to shops, and a few are later replacements or additions.","period_of_significance":"c. 1898-c. 1914","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian (Six Sisters) and early twentieth-century beach cottages with Craftsman influence","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Buildings are occupied, in mixed residential and commercial use; alterations are largely limited to commercial conversion and a few aluminum windows. Two buildings are modern intrusions and two of the Six Sisters are c. 1980 reconstructions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.723635-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/87000623.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000623/981ab62ef5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000623/981ab62ef5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"W Nowicki","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Six_sisters,_Capitola,_California.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">W Nowicki</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:Six_sisters,_Capitola,_California.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861900","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49562081"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/santa-cruz-county/six-sisters-lawn-way-historic-district-87000623/"}