Peter Gano House

Built in 1890 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.

From the record

“The Peter Gano House is a historic three-story house in Avalon, California. It was built in 1888-1890 by Peter Gano, a civil engineer, and designed in the Queen Anne style, with a cupola.”
Wikipedia article Peter Gano House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1890, Queen Anne style.

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.
Listed as. Gano, Peter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 718 Crescent Ave., Avalon, 90704
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Census division. Palos Verdes
When was it built? 1890
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 83001194 - 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.

Fires near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Peter Gano House between 1999 and 2007, burning about 5,102 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	5

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
27 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
27 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 July 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	350 acres	California Southern Region Operations	GOAT CA LAC 99119650
10 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4,750 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	ISLAND
25 December 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Peter Gano House: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Zinc. 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
Pebble Beach Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium	Past Producer
Pebbly Beach Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Renton Vein	Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Santa Catalina Island Deposits	Clay	Past Producer
Santa Catalina Island Moonstones	Semiprecious Gemstone	Past Producer
Quarry	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Renton Vein	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1943 USGS Santa Catalina East quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1949 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Santa Catalina East quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Long Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Santa Catalina Island quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
William Wrigley Jr. Summer Cottage	0.2 miles	1985
Tuna Club of Avalon	0.3 miles	1991
Christian Science Society	0.3 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001194 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.