{"nrhp_refnum":"91000338","name":"Tuna Club of Avalon","other_names":["Tuna Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 St. Catherine Way, Catalina Island","address_restricted":false,"city":"Avalon","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.345680412000036,"lon":-118.327214933,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood frame clubhouse at 100 St. Catherine Way in Avalon, Catalina Island, California, built in 1916 on pilings over Avalon Bay. It replaced the club's first clubhouse, built in 1908 and destroyed by fire in 1915.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its Craftsman architecture, as the city's major example of that styling on a non-residential building, and as one of Avalon's oldest non-residential buildings. It is also the home of the Tuna Club, founded in 1898, which wrote the first rules for sporting take of fish and early ocean conservation rules. From 1916 into the early 1940s the club was the most prominent big game fishing club in the world.","narrative":"Perched on pilings over Avalon Bay on Catalina Island, this two-story wood frame clubhouse at 100 St. Catherine Way was completed in 1916 for the Tuna Club. It replaced an earlier clubhouse that burned in 1915. The building shows Craftsman elements: a hipped roof, horizontal siding below and shingles above, a tripartite arrangement with a tower section at each end, and low dormers. Boats can reach the rear of the building. The only notable alteration came in 1946-47, when the seaward deck was enlarged and a small Ladies Annex was added. The club was founded in 1898 by Dr. Charles Frederick Holder and associates, who drew up what are described as the first rules for sporting take of fish and early rules for ocean conservation. These rules were later adopted by angling clubs worldwide. Between 1916 and the early 1940s the club was the most prominent big game fishing club in the world, and it is still used as a clubhouse.","period_of_significance":"1916-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a clubhouse; pilings, underpinnings and subfloors were replaced in 1989 with no change in appearance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.487606-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91000338.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000338/c911ef3d3a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000338/c911ef3d3a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"CMChristine","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuna_Club_of_Avalon,_Catalina_Island.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">CMChristine</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:Tuna_Club_of_Avalon,_Catalina_Island.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859582","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna_Club_of_Avalon","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16902060"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/tuna-club-of-avalon-91000338/"}