{"nrhp_refnum":"92000968","name":"Kinsey, Martha, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1624 Ludington Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"La Jolla","county":"San Diego County","state":"CA","lat":32.847784475000026,"lon":-117.27518694899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large split-level frame residence at 1624 Ludington Lane in the La Jolla Park Tract, La Jolla, San Diego County, California, designed in 1937-38 by architect Lilian Jenette Rice for Martha Kinsey and completed in 1938.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the work of Lilian Rice, one of the earliest and most distinguished female architects of the 20th century. It marks a turning point in her career, from Spanish Colonial designs at Rancho Santa Fe toward Bay Area-style hillside homes fitted to the landscape. It is also considered possibly her last design, completed shortly before her death in December 1938.","narrative":"Perched on a hillside in La Jolla's Park Tract, this roughly 5,000-square-foot home at 1624 Ludington Lane was designed by architect Lilian Jenette Rice for Martha Kinsey and finished in 1938. Its levels step downhill from south to north, with redwood clapboard siding, a shake roof, a concrete foundation, three brick chimneys and terraced porches that look toward the Pacific Ocean. The garage and main entrance sit at street level, and the lower floors drop away below. The house is listed because it shows a change in Rice's career. After years of Spanish Colonial work in the planned community of Rancho Santa Fe, she turned to informal, horizontal hillside designs inspired by Bay Area architecture, intended to blend with the terrain. Rice, one of the first women licensed as an architect in California, died in December 1938, and this may have been her final design. The house remains largely as built, with its original blueprints surviving.","period_of_significance":"1938","architect_builder":"Rice, Lilian Jenette (architect); Ernest W. Dewhurst (contractor)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as unaltered, with no deterioration of original fabric and a high degree of architectural integrity; still used as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.07556-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/92000968.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860896","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5754340"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-diego-county/kinsey-martha-house-92000968/"}