National Register of Historic Places includes these 36 San Joaquin County sites

Happy birthday, San Joaquin County, you don’t look a day over … 175? As the county celebrates 175 Years of Growing Greatness this year, take a step back in time with these 36 San Joaquin County listings on the National Register of Historic Places. Stockton – which celebrated its own 175th in the “All America City” in 2024, is home to 19 of the iconic spots on the list that denotes historic U.S. places worthy of preservation.

Take a look at our local landmark sites:

Stockton National Register of Historic Places

  • Cole's Five Cypress Farm — 11221 E. Eight Mile Road. Completed in 1863, the “large pioneer farmhouse is representative of the homes built by the grain barons when ‘Wheat was King’ in the great San Joaquin Valley,” according to the National Park Service.
  • Commercial and Savings Bank — 343 E. Main St.
  • El Dorado Elementary School — 1540 N. Lincoln St.
  • Elks Building — 42 N. Sutter St. The landmark site, built in 1908, was home to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks until 1976.
  • Farmer's and Merchant's Bank — 4612 McGaw St.
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

The Bob Hope Theatre is at 242 E. Main Street in downtown Stockton on Sept. 12, 2024.

  • Bob Hope Fox California Theatre — 242 E. Main St. The Fox California Theatre, renamed the Bob Hope Theatre in 2004, is a city treasure, called "Stockton's crown jewel" by Sylvia Sun Minnick, who wrote the story of the old theater for the Friends of the Fox, Record archives show.
  • Wong K. Gew Mansion — 345 W. Clay St. "Wong Gew came to California from China in the 1880s, settling first in San Francisco and then moving to the San Joaquin Valley," states a National Register of Historical Places Inventory Nomination Form from 1978. "In Stockton, Wong Gew became a prominent gambler and established several large gaming houses, including the Tong King Company in the Roosevelt Hotel."
  • Benjamin Holt House — 548 E. Park St. Built in 1869, it was home to Holt Manufacturing Co. President Benjamin Holt, inventor of the Caterpillar tractor, until his 1920 death.
  • Hotel Stockton — 133 E. Weber Ave. Built over Weber's Hole, once home to hot water baths before the hotel opened in 1910 as a first class travelers’ hotel, it was renovated in 2005 by the city and is now home to downtown apartment dwellers.
  • Nippon Hospital — 25 S. Commerce St. In 1910, the Stockton Japanese community started its own medical facility, the Nippon Hospital, as the population here continued to grow. By 1938 there were 800 Japanese Stocktonians. It became a hotel in 1930 and is now home to The Waterfront Steamboat Landing affordable apartments.
  • Old Weber School — 55 W. Flora St. Opened in 1873, it was named after Stockton founder Capt. Charles Weber and joined the register in 1973, 100 years after its debut.
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

The historic Philomathean Clubhouse north of downtown Stockon. RECORD FILE

  • Philomathean Clubhouse — 1000 N. Hunter St. The Philomathean Clubhouse opened Feb. 9, 1912, the first women’s club in Stockton, where the city’s academic and influential women gathered.
  • Moses Rodgers House — 921 S. San Joaquin St. Rodgers escaped slavery to become one of the most successful Black pioneers to settle here during the Gold Rush. The first man to drill for natural gas locally, Rodgers was said to have earned a reputation as one of California’s premier mining engineers and metallurgists. He owned several mines in Mariposa County, and moved to Stockton to provide his five children an education.
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

The Waterfront Warehouse, located at 445 W. Weber Avenue in downtown Stockton, was built in 1875 as 2-story storage facility for the Sperry Mill Company. It is the oldest Intact building on the banks of the Stockton Channel. The building, now a Stockton historical landmark, houses several, businesses, organizations and restaurants.

  • Sperry Office Building — 146 W. Weber Ave.
  • Sperry Union Flour Mill — 445 E. Weber Ave.
  • Stockton Savings and Loan Society Bank — 301 E. Main St.
  • Tretheway Block — 229 E. Weber St.
  • US Coast Guard Cutter Fir — Assigned to the Navy during WWII, the Fir was most recently listed as moored in Little Potato Slough along West Eight Mile Road. Plans to turn her into a floating museum have yet to materialize.
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

Tracy National Register of Historic Places

  • Bank of Italy — 628 Central Avenue
  • Bank of Tracy — 111 W. Tenth Street
  • Tracy City Hall and Jail — 25 W. Seventh Street
  • Tracy Inn — 24 W. Eleventh Street
  • John Ohm House — 31524 S. Kasson Road
  • West Side Bank — 60 W. Tenth Street
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

The sun sets beyond the Lodi Arch on Pine and Sacramento streets in downtown Lodi on Oct. 27, 2018.

Lodi National Register of Historic Places

  • Hotel Lodi — 5 S. School St.
  • Lodi Arch — Pine Street at Lodi Avenue. Built in 1907, the historic Mission Revival arch is home to a gilded California grizzly bear, restored in 2001. The original bear was placed on top of the Pine Street arch in 1909, after Lodi members of the Native Sons of the Golden West swiped it from the Stockton club. That bear was replaced in 1934.
  • Morse-Skinner Ranch House — 13063 N. Highway 99 Frontage Road
  • Terminous Culling Chute — 14900 W. Highway 12
  • Woman's Club of Lodi — 325 W. Pine St.
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

The Locke Building at the intersection of Elliot Street and Highway 88 in Lockeford on Jan. 19, 2011.

Lockeford National Register of Historic Places

  • Harmony Grove Church — 11455 E. Locke Road. Founded in 1859 along with the historic Harmony Grove Cemetery, where tombstones read like a who's who of Lockeford-area pioneer names like Locke, Tretheway, Brandt, Linn and Hammond.
  • Dean Jewett Locke, who, with his brother Elmer, settled in the area in 1851.
  • Locke House and Barn — 19960 N. Elliott Road
  • Locke's Meat Market — 13480 Highway 88
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

The old IOOF Hall, circa 1873, in Woodbridge along the Lincoln Highway.

Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places

  • Woodbridge Masonic Lodge No. 131 — 1040 E. Augusta St.
  • I.O.O.F. Hall — 18961 N. Lower Sacramento Road. The historic “Lincoln Highway” passes the landmark building, built in the 1860s, eight years after the community was founded in 1852. 

Clements National Register of Historic Places

  • IOOF Lodge No. 355 — 18819 E. Highway 88
Stockton National Register of Historic Places, Tracy National Register of Historic Places, Lodi National Register of Historic Places, Lockeford National Register of Historic Places, Woodbridge National Register of Historic Places, Clements National Register of Historic Places

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