Buckridge Ranch House

The Buckridge Ranch House, near Point Arena, California, was built in 1869. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

Buckridge Ranch House
Nearest cityPoint Arena, California
Coordinates38°55′35″N 123°37′33″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1869
Architectural styleI-house
MPSPoint Arena MPS
NRHP reference No.90001359[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 13, 1990

It is located on the Garcia River near Buckridge Road, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Point Arena.

It is an I-house, apparently two rooms wide and one room deep.[2]

Its significance is stated in the National Register nomination:

The Buckridge Ranch House is an excellent example of a building form that first arrived in the United States with English settlers in the seventeenth century and continued to be built in one guise or another for over 2OO years. This kind of building, called an I—house, has a rectangular form, two stories with two rooms on each, and a symmetrical facade. A side—facing gable roof is usually present. In the Virginia and the Carolinas a full—width front porch became a common feature. I—houses, like other early vernacular building types, used design principles that were of proven utility and were passed from builder to builder by word of mouth. The builder of the Buckridge Ranch House was probably not trying to design a house similar to those popular in the American Southeast. That was an unintended result of an effort to construct a simple, functional residence. The building displays all the characteristics of a Tidewater I-house (form, height, fenestration, roof, and porch) in an unusually pure example. The board-and-batten siding is typical of the early settlement of California, while the log porch supports add a rustic note. It is the only unadorned I—house in the Point Arena area.[2]

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Donald S. Napoli; Maryln Bourne Lortie (February 21, 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Buckridge Ranch House". National Park Service. Retrieved November 19, 2019. With accompanying two photos from 1989-90


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