{"nrhp_refnum":"90001355","name":"Gillmore, E. P. and Clara, House","other_names":["J.H. and Bessie Halliday House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 Mill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Point Arena","county":"Mendocino County","state":"CA","lat":38.91767649800005,"lon":-123.69154067899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Second Empire style house at 40 Mill Street in Point Arena, Mendocino County, California, built in 1893 for E. P. and Clara Gillmore. The architect or builder is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is one of the few in Point Arena deliberately designed in an architectural style. It has the key Second Empire feature, a mansard roof with dormers, plus classical detailing. It is the only mansard-roofed house in town that remains substantially unaltered, and it was tied to prominent local citizens.","narrative":"Built in 1893 at 40 Mill Street in Point Arena, this two-story house shows the Second Empire style in a small California coastal town. Its mansard roof is cut by three evenly spaced double-hung dormer windows, each sheltered by a small bracketed shed roof. Wide horizontal board siding covers the walls, and paired windows flank a paneled front door with a transom and a hipped portico. A small one-story addition sits on the east side. The house was listed for its architecture. It is one of the few Point Arena houses deliberately designed in a recognized style, and of the several mansard-roofed houses once built in town, it is the only one that remains substantially unaltered. Its original owners, E. P. and Clara Gillmore, were prominent locally; he ran a general merchandise store and livery stable and served a term as county supervisor. In 1906 the house passed to their daughter Bessie and her husband J. H. Halliday, who lived there until the early 1940s.","period_of_significance":"1893","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Second Empire","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed current use is single-family residential; the only noted changes are possible alterations to the portico and a small one-story addition on the east side.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.416598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/90001355.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001355/f4add86ac5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001355/f4add86ac5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Almonroth","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E.P._and_Clara_Gillmore_House-2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Almonroth</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:E.P._and_Clara_Gillmore_House-2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857649","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56269212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mendocino-county/gillmore-e-p-and-clara-house-90001355/"}