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One of 32 National Register listings published here for San Luis Obispo County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Tognini and Ghezzi Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 152 N Ocean Avenue, Cayucos, 93430
- When was it listed? September 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. North Coast
- National Register reference number. 100012304 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Tognini and Ghezzi Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 367 acres in total. None 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 | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 94 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | CREEK |
| 24 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | CREEK |
| 22 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | SLU-3292 |
| 2 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.7 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | SANDALWOOD AVE MB |
| 19 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.4 acres | San Luis Obispo Unit | not named |
| 11 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | CAYUCOS |
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | CREEK |
| 8 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Luis Obispo Unit | VILLA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Tognini and Ghezzi Building: 6 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Manganese, Nickel, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Prodigal Son | Gold, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Whale Rock Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bonanza Group | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Manini Property | Nickel | Occurrence | 1945 | |
| Maninni Nickel Property | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Prodigal Son | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Kester Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Mable G Mine | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Middlecrest Ranch Deposit | Chromium | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cayucos, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cayucos | - | A trained spotter in the Cayucos area reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 58 MPH. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Cayucos | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1897 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1900 USGS San Luis quadrangle1:125000 - 4 printings
- 1937 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1947 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1956 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1957 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Cayucos quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
- 1981 USGS San Luis Obispo quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012304 in Record Group 79. |
| San Luis Obispo County | All 32 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.