{"nrhp_refnum":"93001038","name":"Olive Civic Center","other_names":["Olive Community Center/Assembly Hall","Olive School Auditorium"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3030 N. Magnolia Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Orange","county":"Orange County","state":"CA","lat":33.83928085300005,"lon":-117.84407010399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-10-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 14,053-square-foot Spanish Colonial Revival civic center building with a \"sunken garden,\" at 3038 North Magnolia Avenue in Olive, now part of Orange, California. It was built in 1937-1939 on the Olive Grammar School grounds as a Works Progress Administration project.","why_significant":"The building served as the community hall, gymnasium and assembly space for the unincorporated town of Olive, hosting the Olive Improvement Association and community dinners and meetings. It is the only surviving building of the Olive School District, organized in 1876. It is also an unusual example of Spanish Colonial Revival design and reinforced-concrete construction for the town, built on land donated by the Jotham Bixby Company.","narrative":"Built between 1937 and 1939 on the highest slope of the Olive Grammar School grounds, this Spanish Colonial Revival building served the former farming community of Olive, now part of Orange, California. Funded as a Works Progress Administration project on land donated by the Jotham Bixby Company, it has poured reinforced-concrete walls, a rectangular plan with central salients, a two-story pavilion decorated with cast medallions and tall finials, and a covered porch overlooking a sunken garden and the Santa Ana Valley. It functioned as gymnasium, assembly hall, dining hall and meeting place, and the Olive Improvement Association, which acted much like a chamber of commerce and city council for the unincorporated town, held meetings and dinners there. Most of Olive's other early buildings have been lost, leaving this as the only surviving building of the Olive School District, organized in 1876. Its main alteration is a 1981 change from red clay tile roofing to composition shingles.","period_of_significance":"1937-1943","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"20th Century Revivals: Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use on school grounds; the original red clay tile roof was replaced with red composition shingles in 1981, the one noted alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.053534-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/93001038.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001038/1961f6d4e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001038/1961f6d4e9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLIVE_CIVIC_CENTER,_ORANGE,_ORANGE_COUNTY_CA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OLIVE_CIVIC_CENTER,_ORANGE,_ORANGE_COUNTY_CA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860296","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133330325"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/orange-county/olive-civic-center-93001038/"}