{"nrhp_refnum":"91000590","name":"Naval Air Station, San Diego, Historic District","other_names":["Naval Air Station,North Island"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Naval Air Station, North Island, N. shore","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Diego","county":"San Diego County","state":"CA","lat":32.71163031400005,"lon":-117.1950333397512,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A military historic district on Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California, made up of buildings and structures from the original Naval Air Station San Diego, built 1917-1938 on a 1918 site plan by architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks.","why_significant":"The district preserves the surviving core of the Navy's first West Coast air station, laid out on a Beaux-Arts plan by Goodhue with Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival buildings. It also reflects early naval aviation on North Island, where the Navy first trained pilots in 1911. Despite alterations, the designer's artistry and the district's character remain evident.","narrative":"Naval Air Station San Diego Historic District occupies the northeastern corner of North Island, across the bay from downtown San Diego. It contains the surviving core of the Navy's first West Coast air station, built mostly between 1918 and 1919 on a plan by New York architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks. The plan follows Beaux-Arts ideas of axiality and symmetry, organizing an administration building, barracks, officers' quarters, shops and seaplane hangars. Buildings are stucco-clad with red tile roofs and Spanish-inspired ornament, echoing the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park. The 110-foot Administration Building tower, once used for aerological equipment, is the visual focus. The district includes twenty-three contributing buildings and three contributing structures. The site also relates to earlier naval aviation, including the Navy's 1911-1912 flight training camp. Alterations and newer buildings have affected some parts, but the original design remains readable and the district is still an active Navy facility.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue; Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks","architectural_style":"Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a U.S. Navy air facility; many buildings now serve as administrative offices, with varying degrees of alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.804499-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91000590.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000590/83d0dda63c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000590/83d0dda63c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Petty Officer 2nd Class Lacordrick Wilson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:160421-N-WX580-007_160421-N-WX580-007.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Petty Officer 2nd Class Lacordrick Wilson</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:160421-N-WX580-007_160421-N-WX580-007.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860933","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_North_Island","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1800390"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-diego-county/naval-air-station-san-diego-historic-district-91000590/"}