A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1877 (Stick style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.
From the record
“The McDonald Mansion, also known as Mableton, is an historic residence in Santa Rosa, California. It was built in 1876 in the Victorian Stick/Eastlake style as a summer home for the McDonald family, whose primary residence was in San Francisco.”
Wikipedia article McDonald Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 73 National Register listings published here for Sonoma County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1877, Stick style · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.74000560- 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
1916 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19161994
Fires near this property
532 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 532 fires within 5 miles of McDonald Mansion
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 487 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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
270
Equipment and vehicle use
82
Smoking
77
Arson/incendiarism
53
Misuse of fire by a minor
27
Debris and open burning
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Natural
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
8 September 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
8 September 1992
Equipment and vehicle use
7.0 acres
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
RUSSELL
7 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
7 September 2000
Smoking
under an acre
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
NEWMAN
6 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of McDonald Mansion: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Santa Rosa, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain, 2 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.
Brief F0 tornado touchdown in the NW portion of the city of Santa Rosa, picked up cinder blocks and threw them into the roof of a house, putting holes in the roof. Law enforcement officer reported swirl of debris passed over his car.
A total of 12.47 of rain was observed at the Santa Rosa COOP station from November 19 at 4 PM to November 22 at 4 PM. This marks the wettest three-day period on record for the station.
Roadway flooding was reported on the connectors between eastbound California Highway 12 and northbound US Highway 101 and westbound Highway 12 to southbound Highway 101.
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.
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.
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.
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