{"nrhp_refnum":"93001022","name":"Hofman, Charles, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"308 S. School St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ukiah","county":"Mendocino County","state":"CA","lat":39.148319764000064,"lon":-123.20826164999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-story Eastlake-style wood-frame house at 308 S. School Street in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, built in 1889 for merchant Charles Hofman and his wife Sophie.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Ukiah's first and best example of Eastlake styling, designed by architect-contractor F. M. Mason as the town's building boom followed the arrival of the railroad in 1889. It is also tied to Charles Hofman, a leading merchant who ran the town's main general store, and to a family central to Ukiah's small Jewish community.","narrative":"Built in 1889 at 308 South School Street in Ukiah, this two-story redwood house was commissioned by merchant Charles Hofman and his wife Sophie at a cost of $4,000, the second largest sum spent on a Ukiah building to that date. Architect-contractor F. M. Mason designed it in the Eastlake style, using decorative trim that had become affordable after the railroad reached town in 1889. The nomination describes it as Ukiah's first and best Eastlake house, with ornamented facade bays, a balustrated balcony, Lincrusta-papered hallways, plaster ceiling medallions and a mahogany newel post. Hofman ran the town's main general store and was a central figure in Ukiah's small Jewish community. The house later served as apartments and, after a 1978 partial restoration, as professional offices, with much original fabric and its floor plan largely intact. It was listed for its architecture and its link to Hofman's commercial prominence.","period_of_significance":"1872-1909","architect_builder":"F. M. Mason","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Eastlake","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Used as professional offices since the 1978 partial restoration; foundation work and seismic retrofit were completed in 1991.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.378836-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/93001022.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001022/1547b86003-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001022/1547b86003-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ian Poellet","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hofman_House_-_Ukiah_California.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ian Poellet</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:Hofman_House_-_Ukiah_California.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859801","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133307659"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/mendocino-county/hofman-charles-house-93001022/"}