{"nrhp_refnum":"89000230","name":"Whitmore, Daniel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2928 Fifth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ceres","county":"Stanislaus County","state":"CA","lat":37.59096452800003,"lon":-120.95199307699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-04-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Transportation","Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story redwood-frame house at 2928 Fifth Street in Ceres, Stanislaus County, California, completed in 1870 by town founder Daniel Whitmore, with a detached 1942 garage on a 60' x 120' lot.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the settlement of the Central San Joaquin Valley and the growth of its grain agriculture, and it was the first house built in Ceres. Its builder, Daniel Whitmore, founded the temperance town, served as postmaster, owned a ferry and warehouses, and shaped local development. It is also the only surviving structure of its time in Ceres with Italianate features such as curved brackets and pedimented windows.","narrative":"Built in 1870 one block from downtown Ceres, this two-story redwood house was the first home in the town. Daniel Whitmore, a pioneer who came west from Michigan in 1854 and reached the area in 1867, built it and moved in with his family in January 1871. The house has an L-shaped plan, a medium-pitch gable roof, a slant bay window, decorative curved brackets and triangular pedimented windows, blending Victorian and Italianate features. A kitchen and rear porch were added around the 1920s, and a garage followed in 1942. Whitmore laid out Ceres as a temperance town, owned thousands of acres, ran a ferry on the Tuolumne River, built warehouses and a grist mill, and served as postmaster for 19 years. His home housed the first post office and hosted civic, social and religious groups during the town's first decade. It is the only surviving structure of its era in Ceres with these Italianate details.","period_of_significance":"1870 - 1893","architect_builder":"Whitmore, Daniel","architectural_style":"Late Victorian / Italianate","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"The listing record notes the home is owned by the city of Ceres. Current functions listed include work in progress, a post office and a meeting hall. Minor deterioration is visible on the second-story exterior.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.637563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/89000230.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000230/4d5eca398b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000230/4d5eca398b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Saeidb","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Whitmore_House2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Saeidb</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:Daniel_Whitmore_House2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862172","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133554682"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/stanislaus-county/whitmore-daniel-house-89000230/"}