BlockFrom the record
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fashion Shop and Stephen Porcella House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 800 Grant Ave. and 1009 Reichert Ave., Novato, 94945
- When was it listed? June 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. Novato
- National Register reference number. 80000817 - 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
1914 to 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 69 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
123 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Fashion Shop and Stephen Porcella House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 218 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 | 82 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge | LKV ASSIST |
| 6 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | STAGE GULCH |
| 5 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
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 Fashion Shop and Stephen Porcella House: 8 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Point | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Claim | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Freeman and Sondgroth | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Ghilotti Bros. - Marin Co. | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Negro Hill | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Knutte | Manganese | Producer | Psilomelane | |
| Knutte Deposit | Manganese | Unknown | 1942 | |
| Black Point | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Sandpits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Novato, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2014: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2014 | Flash Flood | Novato | $4,000,000 | Heavy rainfall produced significant rises on Novato Creek between highways 101 and 37 on the east side of the city of Novato. This led to an intentional breach of the levee on a 20 foot section to prevent floodwaters from reaching downtown businesses and nearby subdivisions. This same flooding also resulted in failure of a smaller portion of the levee and overtopped another section. Caltrans levees on highway 37 were breached and a culvert was washed out. |
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Novato | - | Novato Creek |
| February 1998 | Flash Flood | Novato | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
10 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.
- 1914 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Novato quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Petaluma quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hamilton Army Air Field Discontiguous Historic District | 5.1 miles | 1998 |
 | Dixie Schoolhouse | 6.0 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000817 in Record Group 79. |
| Marin County | All 50 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.