This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in California, of which there exist 135. The United States National Historic Landmark program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources nationwide according to a list of criteria of national significance. The state of California is home to 135 of these landmarks, expressing the diversity of California’s heritage, including pre-Columbian peoples, the Spanish and Mexican periods, maritime activity, space exploration, and many other themes.

The table below lists all 135 of these sites, along with added detail and description. The sites are distributed across 35 of California's 58 counties.

Current NHLs

One site, Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites, is shared with Arizona and is listed by the National Park Service in that state. Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge is shared with Oregon but credited to California.

	Landmark name	Image	Date desig.	Location	County	Description
	The Ahwahnee			Yosemite National Park	Mariposa	National Park Service-built and operated hotel in Yosemite National Park; designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood; exemplifies National Park Service Rustic architecture.
	Alcatraz Island			San Francisco	San Francisco	Former maximum security Federal prison; Frank Morris escaped, but few others did; part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area; visited by tourist ferries.
	Alma			San Francisco	San Francisco	Flat-bottomed scow schooner that was built in 1891 and used in San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Now part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
	Angelus Temple			Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Church built by and for Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelical sensation of the 1920s and 1930s.
	Juan de Anza House			San Juan Bautista	San Benito	One-story adobe house typical of Mexican era, later "Americanized", also in typical way.
	Aquatic Park Historic District			San Francisco	San Francisco	Streamline Moderne beach, pier, and public bathhouse built by the WPA in 1936.
	Asilomar Conference Grounds			Pacific Grove	Monterey	Arts and Crafts style conference center built for the YWCA by Julia Morgan in 1913.
	Balboa Park			San Diego	San Diego	1,200 acre (4.9 km²) urban cultural complex in San Diego. Reserved in 1855, it is one of the oldest public recreation sites in the US. It includes open areas and vegetation as well as museums, theaters, gardens, shops, restaurants and the San Diego Zoo.
	Balclutha			San Francisco	San Francisco	The only remaining square rigged ship in the San Francisco Bay area, it was built in 1886 and served on several different trade routes. It is now part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
	Baldwin Hills Village			Baldwin Hills	Los Angeles	Now known as Village Green, this 627 unit condo complex was one of the first new planned communities when it was built between 1935 and 1942.
	Hubert H. Bancroft Ranch House			Spring Valley	San Diego	Adobe home of historian and ethnologist Hubert Howe Bancroft, publisher of many Pacific Coast histories and books on Native American culture.
	Bank of Italy Building			San Francisco	San Francisco	Became the headquarters of Bank of Italy in 1908; precursor of the Bank of America); also known as the Clay-Montgomery Building.
	Aline Barnsdall Complex			Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Hollyhock House, a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1919–1921 for Aline Barnsdall. Now the centerpiece of the Barnsdall Art Park.
	Berkeley			San Diego	San Diego	First propeller-driven ferry on the west coast; currently the main "building" of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
	Big Four House			Sacramento	Sacramento	Built in 1852; house where Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker organized the Central Pacific railway and founded the Southern Pacific Railroad.
	Bodie Historic District			Bodie	Mono	Establish in 1859, it became a Gold Rush boomtown in 1876. It is currently a State park preserved in arrested decay, neither restored nor destroyed. It is one of very few towns of this type to survive untouched.
	Borax Lake Site	image pending		Clear Lake	Lake	The archaeological type site of the unique Paleo-Indian Clovis people known as the Post Pattern. This site extended their known range and introduced an unusual lake shore dwelling population.
	Bradbury Building			Los Angeles	Los Angeles	1893 Italian Renaissance architectural landmark. Known for its striking interiors and cage elevators. It has been used extensively as a location in films such as Blade Runner.
	Luther Burbank House and Garden			Santa Rosa	Sonoma	City park containing the former home, greenhouse, gardens, and grave of noted American horticulturist Luther Burbank.
	C.A. Thayer			San Francisco	San Francisco	Schooner built in 1895; now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park; worked in lumber trade to San Francisco from Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.
	Carmel Mission			Carmel	Monterey	The second Roman Catholic California Mission Church, this was the headquarters of the padre presidente, Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen . It was destroyed in the mid 1800's and restored in 1884 and 1920. It remains a parish church today.
	Jose Castro House			San Juan Bautista	San Benito	Historic adobe home built by José Castro, Commandant General of Northern California. It is part of the San Juan Bautista Historic District.
	Coloma			Coloma	El Dorado	Town where the California Gold Rush when James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's mill on January 24, 1848. Now a ghost town, it is a significant part of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
	Columbia Historic District			Sonora	Tuolumne	Within two years of discovering gold in this town, it was the 3rd largest city in California. The historic district is now an open museum and the best preserved California Gold Rush town.
	Commander's House, Fort Ross			Fort Ross	Sonoma	Only original structure at Fort Ross; also known as Rotchev House; Russian-built in 1812
	Coso Rock Art District (formerly Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons)			Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake	Inyo	Over 20,000 Indian petroglyphs are located in this NHLD, which also incorporates two earlier NHLs Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons. The site is located within Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
	Donner Camp			Truckee	Nevada	Museum and monument to Donner party; trapped by weather during the winter of 1846–1847; resorted to cannibalism to survive
	Eames House			Pacific Palisades	Los Angeles	Built in 1949 by husband-and-wife design pioneers Charles and Ray Eames; also known as Case Study House No. 8.
	Elmshaven	image pending		St. Helena	Napa	Ellen Gould White lived and worked here from 1900 until her death in 1915. She was notable for her prophetic ministry which led to the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
	Estudillo House			San Diego	San Diego	Adobe house; constructed in 1827; was considered one of the finest houses in Mexican California.
	Eureka			San Francisco	San Francisco	Side-wheel paddle steamboat; built in 1890 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company; preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
	USCGC Fir			Rio Vista	Sacramento	174 foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter; lighthouse tender; decommissioned.
	First Church of Christ, Scientist			Berkeley	Alameda	Church designed by Bernard Ralph Maybeck
	James C. Flood Mansion			San Francisco	San Francisco	Mansion of James C. Flood, 19th century silver-baron; first brownstone building built west of the Mississippi River; one of the only buildings on Nob Hill to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire; purchased by the Pacific-Union Club after the earthquake
	Folsom Powerhouse			Folsom	Sacramento	Built in late 1800s using prison labor from Folsom Prison; first delivered power to Sacramento in 1895; remained in operation until 1952.
	Fort Ross			Fort Ross	Sonoma	Established by Ivan Kuskov of the Russian-American Company in 1812; thriving settlement from 1812 to 1841
	Fresno Sanitary Landfill	image pending		Fresno	Fresno	Opened in 1937; first modern landfill in the U.S.; model for other landfills around the country; and one of the longest-lived.
	David B. Gamble House			Pasadena	Los Angeles	Arts and Crafts masterpiece; shows influence from traditional Japanese aesthetics and a certain California spaciousness born of available land and a permissive climate.
	Gonzalez House	image pending		Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	Built about 1825 by Don Rafael Gonzales; typical of Mexican-era adobe town houses; adobe walls at least 2' thick
	Guajome Ranch House			Vista	San Diego	Spanish Colonial hacienda with two courtyards.
	Hale Solar Observatory			Pasadena	Los Angeles	Laboratory of George Ellery Hale, inventor of the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discoveries of the solar vortices and magnetic fields of sun spots.
	Hanna-Honeycomb House			Palo Alto	Santa Clara	Located on Stanford University campus, this was Frank Lloyd Wright's first work in the San Francisco region as well as his first work with non-rectangular structures.
	Harada House	image pending		Riverside	Riverside	Property involved in 1916-1918 constitutional test of an alien land law; at issue was the rights of the children of a Japanese immigrant
	Hearst San Simeon Estate			San Simeon	San Luis Obispo	Built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst; open for public tours; Hearst formally named the estate "La Cuesta Encantada".
	Hercules			San Francisco	San Francisco	This 1907 steam tug is now a museum ship at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
	Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House			Palo Alto	Santa Clara	Designed by Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover, this is where the Hoovers lived before and after his presidency. It is now the official residence of the president of Stanford University
	USS Hornet			Alameda	Alameda	Essex class aircraft carrier which was commissioned in November 1943. She played a role in the Pacific battles of World War II and then went on to serve in the Vietnam War. It also recovered the Apollo astronauts as they returned from the Moon.
	Hotel del Coronado			Coronado	San Diego	The largest beach resort on the North American Pacific Coast, this Victorian building is an iconic symbol of San Diego.
	Edwin Hubble House			San Marino	Los Angeles	Home of astronomer Edwin Hubble from 1925 until his death in 1953.
	Jeremiah O'Brien			San Francisco	San Francisco	This Liberty ship is a rare survivor of the 6,939-ship armada that stormed Normandy on D-Day, 1944.
	La Purisima Mission			Lompoc	Santa Barbara	Now a historical park, it is the only example in California of a "complete" mission complex.
	Lake Merritt Wild Duck Refuge			Oakland	Alameda	Now known as Lake Merritt park, it is notable for being the first official wildlife refuge in the United States, designated in 1870.
	Lane Victory			San Pedro	Los Angeles	A rare example of a Victory Ship, it is now a still operational museum ship which makes 6 public cruises a year to Catalina Island.
	Larkin House			Monterey	Monterey	This house, part of the larger NHLD Monterey State Historic Park, combined Spanish building techniques with New England features, creating the Monterey Colonial style of architecture.
	Las Flores Adobe			Camp Pendleton	San Diego	An Estancia halfway between two missions, it is now part of a Boy Scout camp located inside Camp Pendleton just off of Interstate 5.
	Leconte Memorial Lodge			Yosemite National Park	Mariposa	Built by the Sierra Club in 1903 in honor of Joseph LeConte, one of the founding members of the Sierra Club. It was a Yosemite visitors center, but is now run by the Sierra Club as a museum and library.
	Lightship WAL-605, Relief			Oakland	Alameda	A lightvessel now located in Oakland.
	Little Tokyo Historic District			Los Angeles	Los Angeles	An ethnic Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles, one of three official Japantowns in the United States.
	Locke Historic District			Locke	Sacramento	The largest remaining example of a historic rural Chinese American community, built in 1915.
	Jack London Ranch			Glen Ellen	Sonoma	Home of Jack London from 1905 until his death.
	Los Alamos Ranch House	image pending		Los Alamos	Santa Barbara	A good example of the Mexican style single story adobe ranch-house located next to the El Camino Real. It was often used as an overnight stop when travelling between Santa Barbara and Monterey.
	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum			Los Angeles	Los Angeles	The only stadium in the world which has hosted the Summer Olympic Games (1932 /1984), the World Series (1959) and the Super Bowl (1967 /1973). It is currently the home of the USC Trojans football team.
	Los Cerritos Ranch House			Long Beach	Los Angeles	Largest adobe home built in Southern California during Mexican era.
	Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge			Dorris, CA and Klamath Falls, OR	Siskiyou, CA and Klamath, OR	This national wildlife refuge, established in 1908, was the first large block of public land set aside for wildlife management purposes. Because of the refuge's extensive overlap with the Klamath Basin water reclamation project, it has become an ongoing example of the tensions between conservation and economic demands in public land management.
	Manzanar War Relocation Center			Indepen- dence	Inyo	The most widely known American forced relocation camp where 11,070 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
	Mare Island Naval Shipyard			Vallejo	Solano	The first US naval facility on the West Coast, it built and supported WWII naval forces as well as nuclear submarines. It closed in 1996 and is currently under redevelopment which is threatening the historic buildings.
	Marin County Civic Center			San Rafael	Marin	The last major commission by Frank Lloyd Wright, this government run complex hosts a variety of events including the county fair. Its architecture has led to inclusion in or inspiration for several films. It is also known for two violent attacks in the 1970s.
	Mendocino Woodlands Recreational Demonstra- tion Area	image pending		Mendocino	Mendocino	The only Recreational Demonstration Area built by the Civilian Conservation Corps that's been continually used as a campground. It has been managed by a nonprofit agency since 1949 and remains in use today as Mendocino Woodlands State Park.
	Joaquin Miller House	image pending		Oakland	Alameda	Joaquin Miller, known as the "Poet of the Sierras", lived here from 1886 until his death in 1913.
	Mission Beach Roller Coaster			San Diego	San Diego	one of only 2 remaining wooden coasters on the West coast, it was built in 1925 by noted coaster builders Prior and Church. It was saved from destruction in 1987, restored, and is still operating today.
	Mission Inn			Riverside	Riverside	This hotel has become the largest Mission Revival style through progressive additions and embellishments since its first predecessor cottage was built in 1876. In addition to lodgings, it features shops, a chapel, furniture from around the world, and Tiffany windows.
	Mission San Miguel Arcángel			San Miguel	San Luis Obispo	The 16th California Mission church remains well preserved and still in use today though under earthquake remediation construction. Inside are murals by Esteban Munras.
	Mission Santa Inés			Solvang	Santa Barbara	The 19th California Mission church was the site of an Indian revolt in 1824. It has undergone restoration since the 1940s and is a working parish church today.
	Modjeska House	image pending		Modjeska	Orange	Designed by Stanford White, from 1888 to 1906 this was the home of Helena Modjeska, a Polish patriot and Shakespearean actress.
	Monterey Old Town Historic District			Monterey	Monterey	Also known as Monterey State Historic Park, this NHLD contains both California's first theatre, and the Monterey Customs House, where the American flag was first raised over California. It also incorporates the National Historic Landmarked Larkin House known for its leading architecture.
	John Muir House			Martinez	Contra Costa	John Muir lived here from 1890 until his death in 1914, the time period of some of his most notable achievements including founding the Sierra Club and laying the groundwork for the creation of the National Park Service. It is open to the public.
	New Almaden			San Jose	Santa Clara	Also known as Senador, one of the oldest and most productive mercury mines in the United States. It helped ensure the California Gold Rush could take place. Now part of Almaden Quicksilver County Park.
	Richard M. Nixon Birthplace			Yorba Linda	Orange	The birthplace and home of President Richard Milhous Nixon from 1913 to 1922. Now part of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
	Frank Norris Cabin			Gilroy	Santa Clara	Also known as Redwood Retreat this was the home of author Frank Norris in the last year of his life.
	Oak Grove Butterfield Stage Station			Warner Springs	San Diego	The only surviving station house on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line. The nearby location of Warner's Ranch was also part of the line.
	Old Customhouse			Monterey	Monterey	This 1827 Adobe structure is the oldest public building in California and is where the American Flag was raised, declaring California part of the United States. It is now a museum located inside the Monterey State Historic Park, itself a NHLD.
	Old Mission Dam			San Diego	San Diego	The first major irrigation project on the Pacific coast, this dam supplied water for milling and irrigation at the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, 5 miles away. Now part of Mission Trails Regional Park
	Old Sacramento Historic District			Sacramento	Sacramento	Built up after the California Gold Rush, this historic district also includes the NHL locations of the Pony Express Terminal and the Big Four House.
	Old Scripps Building			La Jolla	San Diego	The first building of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which is the oldest oceanographic institute in the United States. It formed the starting point of what has become the University of California, San Diego.
	Old United States Mint			San Francisco	San Francisco	Built for the San Francisco Mint in 1874 to handle the overflow from the California Gold Rush, this building is affectionately as The Granite Lady. It is one of the few that survivors of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and served until 1937.
	USS Pampanito			San Francisco	San Francisco	A Balao class submarine, she served in World War II before becoming a museum ship and part of the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association. She still has several working parts, including the periscopes and a torpedo tube.
	Paramount Theatre			Oakland	Alameda	The largest theatre on the West Coast when it was built, it is notable for its Art Deco appearance. It is the home of the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Oakland Ballet and is managed by a nonprofit organization.
	Parsons Memorial Lodge	image pending		Yosemite National Park	Tuolumne	This solidly built structure was the first stone structure in a National Park. It was built by the Sierra Club and is still standing today with only minor variations. It reflects the Bay Area architecture influences of Bernard Maybeck as well as the practical weather concerns of the High Sierra valley.
	Petaluma Adobe			Petaluma	Sonoma	The largest example of Monterey Colonial architecture in the United States, this adobe structure was the ranch house of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, commandant of the Sonoma Pueblo. It is now the centerpiece of Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, which is threatened with closure.
	Pioneer Deep Space Station			Fort Irwin	San Bernardino	NASA's Deep Space Network for tracking unmanned spacecraft in deep space was inaugurated when this antenna became operational in 1958.
	Point Reyes Lifeboat Station	image pending		Point Reyes	Marin	Last remaining instance of a USLS rail launched lifeboat station, commonly used on the Pacific coast. This site rescued crews from ships that foundered on Point Reyes. It is now protected as part of the Point Reyes National Seashore.
	Pony Express Terminal			Sacramento	Sacramento	The Western end of the Pony Express, this bank building has also served as the first home of the Supreme Court of California. It is now part of the Old Sacramento State Historic Park, itself a National Historic Landmark District.
	Potomac			Oakland	Alameda	Formerly the USCGC Electra, this ship was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht from 1936 until his death in 1945 and only one of three still existing presidential yachts. On August 3, 1941, she played a decoy role while Roosevelt snuck off to sign the Atlantic Charter. She is now a museum ship.
	Presidio of San Francisco			San Francisco	San Francisco	Used as a fortified military base from 1776 to 1995 by Spain, Mexico, and the United States. It is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and serves a mix of commercial and public uses. It is required to be financially self supporting by 2013.
	Ralph J. Scott			San Pedro	Los Angeles	A fireboat for the LAFD from 1925 until its retirement in 2003, it could pump 17,000 US gal/min (1,070 L/s). It is now located near the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.
	William C. Ralston Home			Belmont	San Mateo	Home of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, founder of the Bank of California, and financier of the Comstock Lode. Now part of Notre Dame de Namur University.
	Rancho Camulos			Piru	Ventura	The home of Ygnacio del Valle, an alcalde of Los Angeles and member of the California State Assembly. The ranch was known as the Home of Ramona because it is likely that the popular 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson was set there. The novel helped in raising awareness about the Californio lifestyle. It is now a museum.
	Rangers' Club	image pending		Yosemite National Park	Mariposa	Stephen Tyng Mather, the wealthy first director of the National Park Service personally donated this building to house the newly hired rangers covering Yosemite National Park. Its rustic architecture inspired all National Park construction through WWII.
	Rogers Dry Lake			Edwards Air Force Base	Kern and San Bernardino	Centerpiece of Edwards Air Force Base, this endorheic desert salt pan in the Mojave Desert has the worlds largest Compass Rose and the worlds largest runway at 7.2 miles. It is one of the alternate Space Shuttle landing sites.
	Room 307, Gilman Hall, University of California			Berkeley	Alameda	Room 307 in Gilman Hall at UCB is where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23, 1941.
	Rose Bowl			Pasadena	Los Angeles	Home field of the UCLA Bruins college football team as well as the annual Rose Bowl Game. It also hosted events from the 1932 and 1984 Olympics
	Royal Presidio Chapel			Monterey	Monterey	This Cathedral is the oldest continuously operating parish, the oldest stone building in California, the smallest Cathedral in the United States and one of the two oldest Cathedrals in the United States. It is the only existing Presidio cathedral in California and the only original building in the Monterey Presidio.
	San Diego Mission Church			San Diego	San Diego	This was the first Spanish Mission in Alta California and the start of El Camino Real. Originally located in the Presidio of San Diego, it later moved a few miles away. The nearby Old Mission Dam, also a NHL, provided water for milling and farming.
	San Diego Presidio			San Diego	San Diego	The first fortified presidio, it along with the first mission, San Diego Mission Church, paved the way for Spanish colonization of California. No structures remain, but the site is now located in Presidio Park.
	San Francisco Bay Discovery Site	image pending		San Bruno	San Mateo	On November 4, 1769 the expedition of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà reached the summit of the 1,200-foot (370 m) high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay. It is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
	San Francisco Cable Cars			San Francisco	San Francisco	The iconic image of San Francisco, this is the only remaining permanently operational manually-operated cable car system in the world.
	San Francisco Civic Center			San Francisco	San Francisco	The United Nations Charter was signed here in 1945 as well as the post WWII peace treaty with Japan. This collection of Beaux Arts buildings serves a number of uses, including the Exposition Auditorium from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
	San Francisco Port of Embarkation, U.S. Army			San Francisco	San Francisco	Originally built during the American Civil War for coastal defense, this fort became the primary transportation hub in the Pacific for the United States during World War I and World War II. In World War II alone, over 1,647,174 passengers and 23,589,472 tons went through this fort. It is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area
	San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District			San Juan Bautista	San Benito	A prime example of the Spanish-Mexican Colonial plan of buildings surrounding the central plaza and Mission church. The NHLD also includes the Jose Castro House, itself a National Historic Landmark. It was featured prominently in the Hitchcock film Vertigo.
	San Luis Rey Mission Church			Oceanside	San Diego	California's most pristine Spanish Mission Complex, this is the third church at this site.
	Santa Barbara County Courthouse			Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	Known for the beauty of its Spanish-Colonial Revival architecture, which inspired and influenced many other designers.
	Santa Barbara Mission			Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	The only Spanish mission in California to remain under the leadership of the Franciscan Friars since the day of its founding.
	Santa Cruz Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster			Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	The Looff family was one of the major early manufacturers of carousels, including this 1911 example. Only five other intact Looff carousels remain in the United States. The 1924 Giant Dipper roller coaster is the older of the two large, wooden scaffolded roller coasters remaining on the West Coast.
	Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome			Santa Monica	Los Angeles	Built by the Looff family to house one of their carousels, this structure now houses a different carousel, but remains a rare example of what was once a much larger Amusement complex.
	Upton Sinclair House			Monrovia	Los Angeles	Home of American novelist Upton Sinclair between 1942 and 1966 and where he wrote most of his later works.
	Sonoma Plaza			Sonoma	Sonoma	The largest plaza in California, this was the location of the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 which led to the Mexican-American War
	Space Flight Operations Facility			Pasadena	Los Angeles	Control room at Jet Propulsion Laboratory where all NASA interplanetary and deep space missions are monitored.
	Space Launch Complex 10			Vandenberg Air Force Base	Santa Barbara	First built in 1958 to test missiles, it was used to launch space missions from 1963 to 1980. It is now a rare, well preserved example of the equipment and facilities from that era.
	Leland Stanford House			Sacramento	Sacramento	The home of Leland Stanford, Governor of California from 1862 to 1863, U.S. Senator from 1885 to 1893, railroad tycoon, member of the Big Four and founder of Stanford University.
	Star of India			San Diego	San Diego	A seaworthy iron hulled museum ship in the San Diego Maritime Museum, she is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating.
	Steedman Estate			Montecito	Santa Barbara
	Sutter's Fort			Sacramento	Sacramento	A 19th century agricultural and trade colony, it was known for its connection to the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush and the formation of Sacramento as well as its proximity to the California Trail and Siskiyou Trails. Now a state park, threatened with closure in 2008.
	Sweden- borgian Church			San Francisco	San Francisco	One of California's earliest pure Arts and Crafts buildings, this Swedenborgianism church remains open today with almost no architectural changes.
	Tao House			Danville	Contra Costa	America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill lived here from 1937 to 1944 while writing his final and most memorable plays: The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten.
	Gunther Island Site 67	image pending		Eureka	Humboldt	An archaeological site surrounding a Wiyot shell midden, located in Tolowot, on Indian Island in Humboldt Bay near Eureka, California. This site helped define the Gunther Pattern in archaeology and was also the site of the 1860 Wiyot Massacre.
	Tule Lake Segregation Center			Newell	Modoc	The largest Japanese American internment camp, it also had the highest security and stayed open longest, even after World War II. The Redress movement in the 1980s and pilgrimages to Tule Lake led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
	Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator			Pasadena	Los Angeles	An 85 foot high stainless-steel cylinder at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions. Ranger, Surveyor, Mariner, and Voyager spacecraft were all tested in this facility.
	Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel			Moffett Field	Santa Clara	This wind tunnel built in the 1950s allowed commercial and military aircraft as well as the Space Shuttle to be aerodynamically tested.
	United States Immigration Station, Angel Island			Tiburon	Marin	The "Ellis Island of the West" processed over 1 million Asian immigrants between 1910 and 1940. Now part of Angel Island State Park, it is undergoing renovation until 2009.
	Walker Pass	image pending		Onyx, California	Kern	Joseph Reddeford Walker mapped this pass in 1834 after learning of it from Native Americans. He then led the first immigrant wagon train through it in 1846. This pass significantly contributed to the development of California.
	Wapama			San Francisco	San Francisco	This 204' wooden schooner was one of 200 ships plying the lumber trade along the Pacific coast. Now managed by the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, she has been moved to Richmond, California for possible renovation. She is threatened by severe dry rot.
	Warner's Ranch	image pending		Warner Springs	San Diego	The only trading post between New Mexico and Los Angeles, this ranch developed into a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line along with nearby Oak Grove. Now a hot springs resort.
	Watts Towers			Los Angeles	Los Angeles	These towers built by Simon Rodia are a superb example of non-traditional vernacular architecture and American Naïve art.
	Wawona Hotel and Thomas Hill Studio			Yosemite National Park	Mariposa	Built in 1879 for tourists visiting the Mariposa Grove, this hotel is also where the Hudson River School painter Thomas Hill painted towards the end of his life.
	Well No. 4, Pico Canyon Oil Field			San Fernando	Los Angeles	Drilled in 1876 to 376 feet (115 m), this was the first commercially successful oil well in California, producing 25 barrels a day (4 m³/d).
	Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites			Winterhaven	Imperial	A major crossroads for Alta California as well as the Westward expansion of the United States. It has several archaeological and historical sites, shared with Arizona across the Colorado River, including Fort Yuma and other state parks.
Table notes: see below; some coordinates have been rounded.

Historic areas of the NPS in California

National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are seven of these in California. The National Park Service lists these seven together with the NHLs in the state,

Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site is also named Tao House and is listed as an NHL under that name above. John Muir National Historic Site is listed as NHL John Muir House above. Manzanar National Historic Site is listed as Manzanar War Relocation Center above. The other four are:

	Landmark name	Image	Date established	Location	County	Description
	Cabrillo National Monument			San Diego	San Diego
	Fort Point National Historic Site			San Francisco	San Francisco
	Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park			Richmond	Contra Costa
	San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park			San Francisco	San Francisco

Former NHLs and Possible Future NHLs

In addition, there are five similar sites that are not currently NHLs. Three sites in California were designated National Historic Landmarks, and subsequently de-designated. Two landmark ships have been moved to other states, and one site has been determined eligible for landmark status, but the designation not finalized. These sites are:

	Landmark name	Image	Year listed	Locality	County	Description
a	First Pacific Coast Salmon Cannery Site	image pending	1964, withdrawn 2004	Broderick	Yolo
b	Fort Ross Chapel		1969, withdrawn 1971	Fort Ross	Sonoma
c	City of Oakland		1989	Oakland and Benicia (formerly)	Alameda (formerly)	Relocated to Arkansas.
d	Rock Magnetics Laboratory	image pending	1994, withdrawn 1999	Menlo Park	San Mateo
e	Saddle Rock Ranch Pictograph Site	image pending	1990 determined eligible	Malibu	Los Angeles

See also

• California Point of Historical Interest
• California Register of Historical Resources
• Historic preservation
• History of California
• List of California Historical Landmarks
• List of California State Historic Parks
• National Register of Historic Places listings in California
• National Register of Historic Places

References

External links

• National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service
• National Park Service listings of National Historic Landmarks