Bolton Hall

Built in 1913 (Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1900.

From the record

“Bolton Hall is a historic American Craftsman-era stone building in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California. Built in 1913, Bolton Hall was originally used as a community center for the utopian community of Los Terrenitos.”
Wikipedia article Bolton Hall (California), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1913, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10116 Commerce Ave., Tujunga, 91042
When was it listed? November 1971
Category. building
Census division. San Fernando Valley
When was it built? 1913
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 71000159 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1900 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Bolton Hall, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Bolton Hall, surveyed 1900

Fires near this property

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Bolton Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,526 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 71 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	139
Equipment and vehicle use	73
Arson/incendiarism	71
Recreation and ceremony	55
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	8
Fireworks	7
Natural	5
Other causes	3

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 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Angeles National Forest	BIG TUJUNGA
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	OTTIE
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	LITTLE
6 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	HAINES
6 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	SEDAN
5 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	MIDNIGHT
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Angeles National Forest	TUNA

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Bolton Hall: 11 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
City Rock Company Pit.	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1925
Hansen Dam Quarry	Granite, Stone	Past Producer	Granite
Katz Diatomaceous Shale	Diatomite	Prospect
Fascination Spring	Gold	Occurrence
Haines Canyon	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Katz	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Shale
Los Angeles Silica Corp.	Silica	Occurrence
Quartz Hill Deposit	Silica	Past Producer
R. Vella	Gold	Prospect
Big Tujunga Canyon Deposit	Graphite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

20 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.

1900 USGS Fernando quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1900 USGS San Fernando quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1928 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1933 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:24000
1939 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:20000
1939 USGS La Crescenta quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1940 USGS San Fernando quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1945 USGS San Fernando quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000
1995 USGS Sunland quadrangle1:24000

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
Schaffer, J.W. House	3.4 miles	2016
Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District	4.0 miles	2016
Doctors House	4.8 miles	2023
City Hall-City of Burbank	5.0 miles	1996
US Post Office-Burbank Downtown Station	5.2 miles	1985
Ard Eevin	5.3 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000159 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.