{"nrhp_refnum":"96001536","name":"Main Street Historic District-Winters","other_names":["Downtown Winters Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1--48 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winters","county":"Yolo County","state":"CA","lat":38.52152762600008,"lon":-121.96936257499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial historic district made up of two facing rows of one- and two-story buildings on the block of Main Street between Railroad Avenue and First Street in downtown Winters, Yolo County, California. Buildings date from 1875-76 through 1912, with a few later additions.","why_significant":"The district represents the growth of commerce in Winters, largely tied to agriculture, from the arrival of the railroad in the 1870s to just after World War II. It has buildings from each era of growth, and despite alterations it still conveys the character of a small, rural but active town.","narrative":"Downtown Winters is anchored by a single block of Main Street, where two facing rows of one- and two-story commercial buildings run between Railroad Avenue and First Street. The earliest, a brick opera house and a neighboring market, date to 1876, soon after the town was founded as the northern end of the Vaca Valley Railroad. Later buildings followed after an 1892 earthquake destroyed many early structures. They include the 1889 DeVilbiss Hotel designed by Sacramento architect A.A. Cook, a stone building by stonecutter Benoit Bertholet, the 1904 Bank of Winters Business Block, and a Classical Revival bank of 1912. Styles range from Italianate and Eastlake to Queen Anne and Classical Revival. The district was listed because it traces how the town's commerce grew with the fruit industry and agribusiness, from the coming of the railroad to just after World War II. Although storefronts have been altered, the block keeps the scale and rhythm of a small rural town center.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"A.A. Cook of Sacramento (DeVilbiss Hotel); Benoit Bertholet and B. Bertholet & Sons (stonework, Bertholet Building, Hercules stone); A.D. Miller and Charles Mathews (Bank of Winters Business Block)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate; Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Late 19th & 20th Century Revival/Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"13 contributing and 8 non-contributing resources, including one vacant lot. Many ground floors have been altered, and the buildings are in commercial use, including a winery, shops and offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.058076-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/96001536.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001536/f6cf5c79ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001536/f6cf5c79ee-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Brian Wickstrom","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Street_Historic_District_-_Winters,_CA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Wickstrom</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:Main_Street_Historic_District_-_Winters,_CA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862396","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Winters_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303612"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/yolo-county/main-street-historic-district-winters-96001536/"}