Helen Goodwin Renwick House

Built in 1900 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1900, Queen Anne style.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Renwick, Helen Goodwin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 211 N. College Ave., Claremont, 91711
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. building
Census division. East San Gabriel Valley
When was it built? 1900
Architectural style. Queen Anne style, Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 16000322 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1897 to 1982

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Helen Goodwin Renwick House, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet covering Helen Goodwin Renwick House, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

483 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 483 fires within 5 miles of Helen Goodwin Renwick House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 533 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 79 were 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	248
Arson/incendiarism	79
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Smoking	28
Debris and open burning	19
Power generation/transmission/distribution	15
Fireworks	7
Natural	6
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
9 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	San Bernardino Unit	not named
7 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Helen Goodwin Renwick House: 8 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Elmira	Gold	Past Producer
Upland South Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Pomona Brick Co	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Unnamed Location	Clay	Unknown
Claremont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Upland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Upland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Upland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Upland Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Upland Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claremont, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 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
September 2022	Flash Flood	Claremont	-	California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding along Mount Baldy Road, about 6 miles north-northeast of Claremont.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Claremont	-	Strong monsoonal thunderstorms over the Los Angeles county mountains produced flash flooding between Mountain High ski resort and the community of Wrightwood.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Claremont	-	A severe thunderstorm moved through the community of Claremont in Los Angeles County. Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down due to thunderstorm winds gusting to 68 MPH.
October 2003	Wildfire	Claremont	-	The Padua Fire, aided by gusty Santa Ana winds, burned thousands of acres in Los Angeles County. As of the end of the month, the fire had yet to be fully contained. The fire had burned over 8,000 acres by the end of October.

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United 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 Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1903 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1928 USGS Claremont quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1933 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:31680
1942 USGS Ontario and Vicinity quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1944 USGS Cucamonga quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1956 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Ontario quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1982 USGS San Bernardino quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Station	0.2 miles	1982
Russian Village District	0.5 miles	1978
Intercultural Council Houses	0.6 miles	2015
Scripps College for Women	0.7 miles	1984
Peter Drucker House	1.2 miles	2017
Ygnacio Palomares Adobe	1.6 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000322 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.