{"nrhp_refnum":"95000996","name":"Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs","other_names":["Ca-Scl-691h","Gilroy Hot Springs"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"9 1/2 mi. NE of jct. of New Ave. and Roop Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gilroy","county":"Santa Clara County","state":"CA","lat":37.10835693650003,"lon":-121.47867512473499,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Asian","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs is a historic resort district of about eight acres on a hillside above Coyote Creek, northeast of Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. It includes guest cabins, a hot springs kiosk, a mineral pool and Japanese-American era additions dating from the 1870s to 1945.","why_significant":"The resort is significant under Criterion A for entertainment/recreation, Asian ethnic heritage and social history. After H.K. Sakata bought it in 1938, it became a center for Japanese-Americans, symbolizing their experience in the United States. The form rates the 1938-1942 and 1945 period as significant at the state level and the earlier 1870s-1920s period at the local level.","narrative":"Gilroy Yamato Hot Springs is a hillside resort of about eight acres above Coyote Creek, northeast of Gilroy. Its core holds sixteen contributing buildings and six contributing structures, mostly small one-story board-and-batten guest cabins named for U.S. states, along with a domed wooden kiosk over the spring source, a 1917 concrete mineral pool, a Buddhist shrine, a tea house and a Japanese garden bridge. Cabins were present by 1866, and the resort grew through the 1870s and 1920s, later suffering from the Great Depression. In 1938 Kyuzaburo Sakata, a Watsonville lettuce grower, bought the property, added Japanese-style baths and opened it for church conferences. Guests soon were almost entirely Japanese-American. The resort is recognized for its role as a gathering place for Japanese-Americans, especially older Issei seeking rest, and for its long recreational history. Fires in 1980 and 1992 destroyed several earlier buildings, but the remaining resources retain a strong sense of time and place.","period_of_significance":"1938-1942 and 1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"All resources are in fair to poor condition but appear structurally sound; they have suffered from weathering, deferred maintenance and vandalism. Fires in 1980 and 1992 destroyed several buildings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.022328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/95000996.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861683","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilroy_Yamato_Hot_Springs","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5562589"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/santa-clara-county/gilroy-yamato-hot-springs-95000996/"}