{"nrhp_refnum":"93000548","name":"Tribune-Republic Building","other_names":["Laughery House Annex","Shaw House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1763 Santa Barbara St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Luis Obispo","county":"San Luis Obispo County","state":"CA","lat":35.275724671000035,"lon":-120.65671617599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-06-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, front-gabled redwood commercial building at 1763 Santa Barbara Street, San Luis Obispo, California. It was built in November 1873 on Morro Street and moved six blocks to its present site in 1905.","why_significant":"It is the only surviving newspaper printing office in San Luis Obispo, where four successive newspapers were published from 1873 to 1890. It is also tied to the Southern Pacific Railroad era, serving as a rooming house for railroad workers after its 1905 move. It is associated with journalist Myron Angel, who used it as his principal workplace from 1883 to 1890.","narrative":"Built in November 1873 on Morro Street in San Luis Obispo, this two-story redwood building was first a newspaper printing office, with a press room upstairs and offices below. Over the next seventeen years it housed four successive newspapers, including the Tribune and the Daily Republic, the latter run by journalist and historian Myron Angel, who campaigned for the Southern Pacific Railroad's coastal route. Later it served as an annex to a hotel, the Laughery House. In 1905 it was moved six blocks to Santa Barbara Street, near the railroad station, and became a rooming house for railroad workers and, during World War II, servicemen from Camp San Luis. It is regarded as the oldest wooden commercial building in the city and retains its original structure, windows and redwood clapboard. Recent restoration converted the interior into three apartments. It was listed for its link to local communication history, Angel, and the railroad boom that shifted the town's commercial center.","period_of_significance":"1873-1890, 1905-1943","architect_builder":"Angel, Myron (listed under Significant Person); architect/builder unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Exterior described as in excellent condition and unchanged since the 1905 move; interior restored and reorganized into three apartments.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.279454-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/93000548.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000548/9e86cab1fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000548/9e86cab1fa-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"US NPS","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tribune-Republic_Building.tiff\" rel=\"noopener\">US NPS</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tribune-Republic_Building.tiff"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861481","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune-Republic_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14684164"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-luis-obispo-county/tribune-republic-building-93000548/"}