{"nrhp_refnum":"99000482","name":"La Puente Valley Woman's Club","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 N. First St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"La Puente","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.02184175600007,"lon":-117.95223509199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, wood-frame Craftsman-style bungalow clubhouse of about 4,200 square feet at 200 N. First Street in downtown La Puente, Los Angeles County, California, built in 1923 by builder Charles O. Lee.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the clubhouse was the main gathering place for social and civic life in the Puente Valley, especially between the 1920s and 1940s. It was the only meeting facility of its type in the area and hosted a wide range of community, charitable and educational activities. It is also cited as an example of the Craftsman bungalow style applied to a meeting place.","narrative":"Built in the summer of 1923, this Craftsman-style bungalow clubhouse at 200 N. First Street in La Puente was funded by $6,000 raised by a men's building committee and valley residents, then presented to the La Puente Valley Woman's Club. The wood-frame building has a shingled hip roof with shed dormers, a cross-gabled wing, exposed rafters, and a covered porch on two columns with ionic capitals set on a brick foundation. Inside, a large assembly room with a vaulted ceiling and a stage added in 1927 remains in the original floor plan. Its importance lies in community life. As the only meeting facility of its kind in the area, it hosted blood drives, baby clinics, scouting groups, banquets, elections, and charity drives, and it served the town through the Depression years and crop diseases. Although many windows have been replaced, it remains one of La Puente's least altered historic buildings and is still used for community gatherings.","period_of_significance":"1923 - 1949","architect_builder":"Lee, Charles O. (Builder)","architectural_style":"Early 20th Century American: Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still in use as a community meeting place and clubhouse; the interior plan is described as unchanged from 1923, though many original windows were replaced with aluminum sliders.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.869488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/99000482.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000482/89c6868807-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000482/89c6868807-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Puente_Valley_Women%27s_Club.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</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:La_Puente_Valley_Women%27s_Club.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859256","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Puente_Valley_Woman%27s_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683007"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/la-puente-valley-womans-club-99000482/"}