{"nrhp_refnum":"93001462","name":"Beach, A.H., House","other_names":["Bergman House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"700 S. Juniper","address_restricted":false,"city":"Escondido","county":"San Diego County","state":"CA","lat":33.11777477900006,"lon":-117.07439637599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story Queen Anne Victorian house at 700 South Juniper in Escondido, San Diego County, California, built in 1896 on a steep corner lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the most ornate and best-preserved Queen Anne Victorian in Escondido, with distinctive millwork found nowhere else in the city. It also notes that a series of prominent local and regional families owned it, including the Putnam, Bridges/Timken, Baldridge and Cassou families.","narrative":"Built in 1896 on a steep corner lot overlooking Escondido, this two-and-a-half story Queen Anne Victorian is described as the city's most ornate example of the style. Its multi-gable form is clad in redwood clapboard and fish-scale shingles, with carved eaves brackets, ship's wheel ornaments in the gable ends, and a round front porch with a diamond-pattern fretwork frieze. Later rear additions from about 1968 to 1970 are limited to a small area and are considered reversible, so the house keeps its integrity. The house was built for A. H. Beach, a real estate agent, and later passed through several prominent families. These included H. A. Putnam, an inventor and financier of the Escondido Irrigation District, and Amelia Timken Bridges and Appleton Bridges, who gave generously to San Diego's cultural life. W. H. Baldridge, a pharmacist and mayor, and the pioneer Cassou family also lived there. It is valued for its architecture and its local associations.","period_of_significance":"1896","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, with alterations concentrated at the rear that are described as reversible; in use 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 02:54:28.25685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/93001462.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001462/edfde69a40-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93001462/edfde69a40-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"scerruti","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A-H-_Beach_House_2012-09-25_13-19-42.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">scerruti</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:A-H-_Beach_House_2012-09-25_13-19-42.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860815","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._H._Beach_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39050886"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-diego-county/beach-a-h-house-93001462/"}