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One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
The listing
- Address. 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, 90401
- When was it listed? October 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Santa Monica
- National Register reference number. 100010919 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1894 to 1979The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
30 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Santa Monica Civic Auditorium between 2005 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | CALVARY |
| 18 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Los Angeles County Fire Department | not named |
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | RUSTIC |
| 11 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 8 July 2009 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 80 acres | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 29 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | ENTRADA |
| 28 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area | DEPAUW |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Beach Mining & Dredging Co | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Acme Brick Co. Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Gladding-Mcbean-Santa Monica Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Santa Monica Brick Co. | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Simons Brick Co.-Santa Monica Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Western Brick Co. | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Monica, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | Flood | Santa Monica | - | Heavy rain produced significant flooding on Interstate 10 at the intersection with 4th Street. |
| February 2026 | Flash Flood | Santa Monica | - | Heavy rainfall produced flash flooding from the McClure Tunnel to eastbound Interstate 10. Several vehicles were stuck in the flood waters. |
| March 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Santa Monica | - | A spotter in the Santa Monica area reported two funnel clouds. |
Maps showing this location
20 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
- 1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
- 1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
- 1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
- 1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1925 USGS Sawtelle quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Sawtelle quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
- 1995 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Club Casa Del Mar | 0.2 miles | 2000 |
 | Horatio West Court | 0.4 miles | 1977 |
 | Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome | 0.4 miles | 1987 |
 | Bay Street Beach Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2019 |
 | Parkhurst Building | 0.9 miles | 1978 |
 | Charmont Apartments | 1.0 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010919 in Record Group 79. |
| Los Angeles County | All 616 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.