{"nrhp_refnum":"96000328","name":"Kimberly Crest","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1325 Prospect Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Redlands","county":"San Bernardino County","state":"CA","lat":34.03785020600003,"lon":-117.17333492599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Social History","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kimberly Crest is a Chateauesque-style residence with a carriage house and terraced Italian gardens on about six and a quarter acres in the Redlands Heights area of Redlands, California. The house dates from 1897 and the gardens were designed in 1908.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criteria B and C. The house is a distinctive, informally interpreted Chateauesque design and the Italian garden is a notable landscape. The property is also tied to Helen Cheney Kimberly and her social and educational work, including the Junior clubs and her daughter's role at Scripps College.","narrative":"Kimberly Crest is a hilltop estate in Redlands, California, set on about six and a quarter acres and reached by Prospect Drive. Its centerpiece is a three-story Chateauesque residence completed in 1897, with round corner towers, conical roofs, dormers and stucco walls under a wood shingle roof. A Chateauesque carriage house stands downhill to the east. Terraced Italian gardens, designed in 1908 and built in 1909, rise toward the house along a central axis, with later additions including a rose garden in 1929. The Kimberly family bought the property around 1906 and altered the interiors, including a French-style parlor. The estate is recognized for its architecture, its landscape design, and its association with Helen Cheney Kimberly, whose work with girls' Junior clubs and women's education, continued by her daughter, shaped a wider network of community leadership. Today the house serves as a museum and the grounds include gardens and citrus.","period_of_significance":"1896-1945","architect_builder":"Dennis, Oliver Perry & Farwell, Lyman; Parkinson, John & Bergstrom, George Edwin","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Chateauesque (Italian Renaissance garden)","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a museum with docent tours, along with gardens and a citrus grove.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.518391-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/96000328.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000328/75658d94ac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000328/75658d94ac-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Binksternet","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kimberly_Crest_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Binksternet</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kimberly_Crest_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860770","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Crest","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6409912"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-bernardino-county/kimberly-crest-96000328/"}