{"nrhp_refnum":"87001011","name":"Jackson, Helen Hunt, Branch","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2330 Naomi St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.016984054000034,"lon":-118.25309591099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-story Spanish Colonial Revival branch library at 2330 Naomi Street in Los Angeles, built in 1925 and designed by C. E. Noerenberg. It is one of the Los Angeles Branch Library System thematic resources.","why_significant":"The nomination points to it as the smallest building in the city's branch library system. Its Spanish Colonial Revival design was chosen to match the scale of nearby buildings and to look like a house. The style is described as well suited to small institutional buildings, in contrast to the Classical Revival or other period revival styles used for larger public buildings.","narrative":"Built in 1925 at 2330 Naomi Street in Los Angeles, this wood-frame building was designed by C. E. Noerenberg as a neighborhood branch library. It was the smallest building in the city's branch system. Its Spanish Colonial Revival styling was chosen to fit the scale of nearby buildings and to give the library a residential look. The one-story building has an L-plan, smooth stucco walls, a parapeted flat roof and an inset tower with a hip tile roof. The recessed entry is through the tower, and a casement window with a decorative iron grille lies south of it. Above the entry, a panel with dentils once carried the library's name. A pair of palms on the side are ringed by an arroyo stone retaining wall. The nomination presents the style as especially suitable for small institutional buildings, compared with the Classical Revival and other period revival styles used for larger public buildings. The building is now used as a church.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"C. E. Noerenberg","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival (also described as Spanish-Mediterranean Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now used as a church; the three arched windows north of the entry are described as boarded over.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.334269-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/87001011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001011/4310c2b4f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001011/4310c2b4f2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Helen_Hunt_Jackson_Branch_Library,_Los_Angeles.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:Former_Helen_Hunt_Jackson_Branch_Library,_Los_Angeles.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857516","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson_Branch","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5702505"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/jackson-helen-hunt-branch-87001011/"}