place

Union Oil Company Building

Buildings and structures in Santa Paula, CaliforniaCalifornia Historical LandmarksCalifornia building and structure stubsCommercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in CaliforniaIndustry museums in California
Museums in Ventura County, CaliforniaNational Register of Historic Places in Ventura County, CaliforniaPetroleum museumsQueen Anne architecture in CaliforniaSanta Paula, CaliforniaSouthern California Registered Historic Place stubsUse mdy dates from July 2022Ventura County, California geography stubs
Union Oil Company Building
Union Oil Company Building

The Santa Paula Hardware Company Building, located in Santa Paula, California, and more commonly referred to as the Union Oil Company Building, is significant for its historical importance as the birthplace of the Union Oil Company on October 17, 1890. Originally, the Santa Paula Hardware and Post Office were downstairs, and the Union Oil Company offices were upstairs. The building continued to serve as a field division office after the main headquarters moved to Los Angeles in 1900. The Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board designated the building County Landmark #36 in December 1977. The building is a California Historical Landmark (#996) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NPS-86002619).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Union Oil Company Building (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Union Oil Company Building
South Ojai Street,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Union Oil Company BuildingContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 34.354166666667 ° E -119.05888888889 °
placeShow on map

Address

South Ojai Street 101
93060
California, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Union Oil Company Building
Union Oil Company Building
Share experience

Nearby Places

Ebell Club of Santa Paula
Ebell Club of Santa Paula

The Ebell Club of Santa Paula is a 1917 mansion, built as a women's club with the aim of the advancement of culture, and now serving as the home of the Santa Paula Theater Center. The Santa Paula chapter, formed in 1913, was the ninth California women's club; the first was established in Oakland by Adrian Ebell in 1876, and the movement was involved in a range of progressive campaigning on social issues. The building, at 125 S. Seventh Street, was designed by Hunt & Burns and built by contractor William A. Hudson. The clubhouse is in Bungalow/Craftsman style. It is surrounded by a park in English landscape garden style that was part of the original design for the club. Alice Stowell McKevett donated land for Ebell Park and contracted the first half of the building in memory of her husband. The dining room and kitchen were added in 1928 by Harriet McKevett Teague and the McKevett Corporation. In 1987 the McKevett Corporation deeded the building to the Santa Paula Community Fund, who in turn deeded it to the Santa Paula Theater Center. For several years the club and the thespians shared the space but the ladies have since parted to a space rented by the First United Methodist Church. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Its NRHP nomination asserted it is "an outstanding example of the shingled Craftsman style", and the "only example of its type in Santa Paula where a Craftsman era institutional building was designed with a complementary landscape plan." It is also one of few preserved historic clubhouses in Ventura County and is the only women's clubhouse in Santa Paula.