Borax Lake Site

The Borax Lake Site is considered of national significance as the type site for a major prehistoric period in the far western United States, the Paleo-Indian (Clovis), referred to in archeological literature of the Western Great Basin and California as ...

National Historic Landmark - Bodie Historic District

In its location, setting, and total isolation, and in terms of the number of historic buildings and associated mining remains that have survived in unusually good condition, Bodie is probably the finest example of a mining "ghost town" in the ...

Big Four House

Built in 1852, the Big Four House was named after the "big four"--Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker--who planned, financed, and built the Western end of America's first transcontinental railway. It was in this structure that the ...

BERKELEY (Ferry)

Built in 1898, BERKELEY is the oldest essentially unmodified passenger and car ferry in the United States, and is the best example of the 3 surviving propeller-driven ferries of the double-ended type, the best known American ferry type. In her ...

Aline Barnsdall Complex (Hollyhock House)

The Aline Barnsdall Complex (or Hollyhock House) and associated buildings and structures are nationally significant as part of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first commission in Los Angeles, California. The project’s centerpiece was oil heiress Aline Barnsdall’s residence, largely built between 1919 ...

Bank of Italy Building

From 1908 to 1921, this eight story, Second Renaissance Revival structure in San Francisco's financial district served as headquarters for Bank of Italy (later renamed Bank of America). Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), the son of Italian immigrants, built the tiny ...

Hubert H. Bancroft, Ranch House

From 1885 until his death in 1918, this one story adobe house was the home of Hubert Howe Bancroft, noted historian of the West. Bancroft's 39 fact-packed volumes, published in San Francisco between 1882 and 1890, maintain their preeminence as ...

Baldwin Hills Village

The idea for Baldwin Hills Village originated in the 1930s when prominent Los Angeles architect Reginald Johnson (1882-1952) decided to create a new type of community. The intent was to provide affordable housing to help the nation recover from the ...

BALCLUTHA (Square-rigger)

With the exception of a few alterations made during the course of her long career as a working vessel and as a museum ship, BALCLUTHA is essentially the same vessel as launched in 1886. She survives as the last square-rigged ...

Balboa Park

Balboa Park includes some of the finest Spanish-Baroque Revival structures in America. The Park was constructed for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915 and enlarged for the California-Pacific International Exposition in 1935.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, ...