{"nrhp_refnum":"88000921","name":"Pacific Coast Railway Company Grain Warehouse","other_names":["Loomis Feed Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"65 Higuera St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Luis Obispo","county":"San Luis Obispo County","state":"CA","lat":35.272791735000055,"lon":-120.66586953099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A long, gable-roofed wood-frame grain warehouse clad in corrugated iron at 65 Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo, California, built for the Pacific Coast Railway Company in 1892/3 (the city survey gives 1885).","why_significant":"It is the only remaining building of the Pacific Coast Railway Company's San Luis Obispo headquarters complex and a visual reminder of the area's grain and bean shipping era. It was the trans-shipment point from farm wagons to narrow gauge trains headed for steamer wharves at Port Harford. It is also the only grain-handling warehouse of its type left in the city and one of the last in the county.","narrative":"Along Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo stands a 360-by-50-foot grain warehouse of light wood frame covered in corrugated iron, set on a raised foundation of soft red local brick. Built in 1892/3 after a fire destroyed the railroad's headquarters buildings, it served the Pacific Coast Railway Company, whose narrow gauge line carried grain and beans from farm wagons to steamers at Port Harford. Inside, the floor is paved with bitumen from tar seeps near Pismo Beach, and a taller section at the south end once housed cleaning and sacking machinery. Six cylindrical vents mark the roofline, and the track side keeps its original doors and loading platform. The warehouse is the sole survivor of the railroad's local headquarters complex and the only building of its kind built for grain handling remaining in the city. After the railroad ceased operating in 1942, the Loomis family's feed store used it until the early 1980s, and it has since stood vacant.","period_of_significance":"1892/3-1930","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as vacant and neglected for about two years; the exterior is little changed apart from closed-off doors on the street side. It was used by a feed and supply store until the early 1980s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.994199-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/88000921.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000921/6eb4af0496-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000921/6eb4af0496-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"KristenTinsley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pacific_Coast_Railway_Company_Grain_Warehouse_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">KristenTinsley</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:Pacific_Coast_Railway_Company_Grain_Warehouse_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861473","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Railway_Company_Grain_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683589"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-luis-obispo-county/pacific-coast-railway-company-grain-warehouse-88000921/"}