San Mateo, California. Cadets get instruction in the use of hand tools...
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Workshop, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mat...
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Pacific Coast at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Residence of Wm. C. Ralston, Belmont Cal.
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Los Gatos Creek, Santa Cruz Narrow Guage R.R., Cal.
California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More
Tech. Sgt. Christian Chavez-Mejia sorts donated
Tech. Sgt. Christian Chavez-Mejia sorts donated non-perishable items at a Second Harvest food bank in San Jose, Calif. April 18,2020. Chavez-Mejia is part of a 30-person team from the 144th Fighter Wing providi... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
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Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
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Methodist Episcopal Church, 108 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Ma...
Significance: Built as a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890, this building was sold by the church in 1905. Survey number: HABS CA-162 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction
Bank of San Mateo County, 2000-2002 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo ...
Significance: The oldest stone-faced building in the county, this stately Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900. Incorporated in 1891, before moving to its present site, it is the earliest bank in San M... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Fitzpatrick Building, 2010 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: This structure was built for Edward R. Fitzpatrick, who had his law offices on the upper floor. After his death, his son Joseph R. Fitzpatrich had his law offices there. The original storefront ... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Dickerman Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-E Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
San Gregorio House, San Gregorio Road, San Gregorio, San Mateo County,...
Significance: A second floor was added to the existing house here in about 1865 when G.W.T. Carter opened a hotel. When John Evans acquired the building in 1875 he added seven bays to the three-bay house. Jes... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cloverdale Ranch Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-C Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
View from the Residence of John Parrott, Esq., San Mateo.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
La Questa Wine Cellar, 240 La Questa Road, Woodside, San Mateo County,...
Significance: Built as a wine cellar for a moderate-sized winery owned by Emmet Hawkins Rixford, this building was converted to a residence by building a wood frame house inside. Survey number: HABS CA-2145 B... More
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
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Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: One of the grandiose creations of a grandiose personality - William Chapman Ralston. Utilizing a modest villa, property of Count Cipriani in the 1850s and early 1860s, Ralston created a veritable ... More
Watkins-Cartan House, 25 Isabella Avenue, Atherton, San Mateo County, ...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-G Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Wells Fargo Building, Pescadero, San Mateo County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1701 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
San Mateo, California. Learning the use of power tools at the United S...
Image source: U.S. Maritime Service training station. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Mor... More
Pacific Coast at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Southern Pacific Railroad Station, Burlingame Avenue & California Driv...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, North Street, Pescadero, San Mate...
Survey number: HABS CA-2133 Building/structure dates: 1906 Initial Construction
Bartlett V. Weeks House, 172 Goulson Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: Bartlett V. Weeks, who moved to this site in 1860, built this house in 1895. A descendant still lives here. Survey number: HABS CA-2137 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
Bank of San Mateo County, 2000-2002 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo ...
Significance: The oldest stone-faced building in the county, this stately Renaissance Revival building dates from 1900. Incorporated in 1891, before moving to its present site, it is the earliest bank in San M... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cloverdale Ranch Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-C Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 21 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, San Mateo C...
Significance: Frame with clapboarding, 65' x 50', two stories with one-story wings, hip roofs with wooden shingles, bracketed eaves, overhanging roof on first-story level supported by columns on E elevation; wa... More
Francisco Sanchez Adobe, Linda Mar Boulevard & Adobe Drive, Pacifica, ...
Significance: San Pedro Valley is of interest in early California history, having been an outpost of the Mission Dolores of San Francisco around 1780. Francisco Sanchez constructed the present adobe near the s... More
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cascade Ranch Dairy Building, Pescadero, San ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-A Building/structure dates: 1862 Initial Construction
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cascade Ranch Dairy Building, Pescadero, San ...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-A Building/structure dates: 1862 Initial Construction
Congregational Church, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: Oldest church surviving on its original site on the San Francisco peninsula. Survey number: HABS CA-163 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1889 Subsequent Work
Portola Valley School, 775 Portola Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo Cou...
Significance: The Portola Valley schoolhouse is one of the few remaining turn-of-the-century examples of Mission Revival-styled schools. Its wood construction and use of shingles present a unique expression of... More
Villa Rose, Redington Road, Hillsborough, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Built in 1912 as a country retreat for Joseph Donohoe Grant, this Italian Renaissance house was sold in 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth, who renamed it Strawberry Hill and carried out extens... More
Community Methodist Church, Johnston & Miramontes Streets, Half Moon B...
Significance: First Methodist church in Half Moon Bay. Survey number: HABS CA-2121 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Burton Park, Club House & Amphitheater, Adjacent ot south end of Chest...
Significance: Dedicated July 28, 1940, Burton Park and its attendant buildings are significant as the first public recreation facility established by the City of San Carlos, and as the first Works Progress Admi... More
Ralston Hall, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: One of the grandiose creations of a grandiose personality - William Chapman Ralston. Utilizing a modest villa, property of Count Cipriani in the 1850s and early 1860s, Ralston created a veritable ... More
James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
James Johnston House, Higgins Road, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: Built in the saltbox form unusual to California. Survey number: HABS CA-2122 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1906 Subsequent Work National Reg... More
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, El Camino Real & Baldwin Street, San M...
Significance: The original church at this site, built in 1865, was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. Willis J. Polk, a parishioner, designed this church in the same village Gothic style. Survey number: HABS C... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo Co...
Significance: A year after the closing of St. Dennis Church, the first Catholic Church in the area, in 1871, this church was built as a mission. It gained the status of a parish church in 1877. The building, ... More
Woodhams House, 112 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Significance: Built for Aldred Winfred Woodhams, a butcher, this house is in a picturesque cottage style. Survey number: HABS CA-2135 Building/structure dates: after 1890 Initial Construction
Woodhams House, 112 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo County, ...
Significance: Built for Aldred Winfred Woodhams, a butcher, this house is in a picturesque cottage style. Survey number: HABS CA-2135 Building/structure dates: after 1890 Initial Construction
Payne-Douglass House, Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park, San Mateo County,...
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U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
U.S. Geological Survey, Rock Magnetics Laboratory, 345 Middlefield Roa...
Significance: The temporary building, which was originally a temporary military hospital, became, in 1959, the home of the Rock Magnetics Laboratory and the site of revolutionary research in the field of earth ... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Southern Pacific Depot, 559 El Camino Real, San Carlos, San Mateo Coun...
Significance: The Southern Pacific Depot at San Carlos is a rare example of the use of the Richardsonian Romanesque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erecte... More
Near Half Moon Bay, California coast. Artichokes are grown along here
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Dinosaur sculptures in Half Moon Bay, a coastal city in San Mateo Coun...
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Golf course, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California
Half Moon Bay began as a rural agriculture area, primarily used for grazing of cattle, horses, and oxen used by Mission San Francisco de Asis. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photo... More
Dinosaur sculptures in Half Moon Bay, a coastal city in San Mateo Coun...
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Belmont - The Residence of Wm. C. Ralston.
California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More
![[Views of street, buildings and three men standing, Santa Cruz?.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE4NzUvMTIvMzEvdmlld3Mtb2Ytc3RyZWV0LWJ1aWxkaW5ncy1hbmQtdGhyZWUtbWVuLXN0YW5kaW5nLXNhbnRhLWNydXotODFhMzUyLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/20/webp "[Views of street, buildings and three men standing, Santa Cruz?.]")
[Views of street, buildings and three men standing, Santa Cruz?.]
California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More
Methodist Episcopal Church, 108 San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Ma...
Significance: Built as a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890, this building was sold by the church in 1905. Survey number: HABS CA-162 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Green Gables, 329 Albion Avenue, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Well-proportioned mansion which boasts an obvious sensitivity to its site. The English country house with distinctive roof has an interior more austere than the Greenes' usual, but still well cra... More
Fitzpatrick Building, 2010 Broadway, Redwood City, San Mateo County, C...
Significance: This structure was built for Edward R. Fitzpatrick, who had his law offices on the upper floor. After his death, his son Joseph R. Fitzpatrich had his law offices there. The original storefront ... More
James McCormick House, San Gregorio Street, Pescadero, San Mateo Count...
Significance: One of the most architecturally sophisticated houses built in Pescadero in the 1860s, this is a mirror image of the Thomas W. Moore House (CA-2136). Survey number: HABS CA-2131 Building/structur... More
Buelna's Roadhouse, 3915 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo County...
Significance: Built for Felix Buelna, this roadhouse has continued its original use to the present. Patronized by Stanford University students and soldiers from Camp Fremont, the bar has had a long string of c... More
San Gregorio House, San Gregorio Road, San Gregorio, San Mateo County,...
Significance: A second floor was added to the existing house here in about 1865 when G.W.T. Carter opened a hotel. When John Evans acquired the building in 1875 he added seven bays to the three-bay house. Jes... More
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cloverdale Ranch Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-C Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Steele Brothers Dairies, Cloverdale Ranch Barn, Pescadero, San Mateo C...
Survey number: HABS CA-2129-C Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, State Highway 1, Pescadero, San Mateo County,...
Original working drawings are located at the National Archives. Lighthouse has rotating gear, & the complex has a watch house. Significance: This was the earliest lighthouse on the west coast to have a First-ir... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Filoli, Canada Road, Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
Significance: Designed by the prominent California architect Willis J. Polk, this skillful adaptation of Provincial Georgian architecture, surrounded by sixteen acres of elaborate formal gardens, remains one of... More
Pablo Vasquez Stable, 200 North Main Street, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo ...
Significance: Pablo Vasquez built this stable after his house in 1869, but before 1872 when a newspaper mentions it. Vasquez also briefly ran a stage line between Half Moon Bay and San Mateo. Survey number: H... More
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad Station, 1100 Merrill Street, Menlo ...
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