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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade Street, Chico, Butte County, CA
- Title: Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade Street, Chico, Butte County, CA
- Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Cleaveland, Henry W.
Bidwell, John
Bidwell, Annie Kennedy
Rancho Arroyo Chico
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Chico Normal School
Chico State College
State of California Division of Beaches & Parks
Sutter, John
Harris
Rotsch, Melvin M. , project manager
Baird, Joseph A., Jr. , historian
Fong, Robert J. , delineator
Pitts, James L. , field team
Spector, Howard O. , delineator
Brandstatt, Clark , delineator
Flathmann, James , delineator - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 10
Data Page(s): 10 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS CAL,4-CHIC,1-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- For additional documentation, see also HALS CA-63
- Significance: General John Bidwell (B. 1819, D. 1900), early pioneer, farmer, and U.S. Congressman, arrived in California in 1841; he was employed as manager of various holdings of John A. Sutter. Acquiring in 1849 his own ranch lands, he built a log cabin and later an adobe house, and laid out the city of Chico. Beginning in 1865, Bidwell built this Italianate style mansion at a cost of $60,000; he occupied it with his bride in 1868. The house was used as a college facility from 1921 until 1964, when it was acquired as part of the system of California Beaches and Parks; it will be preserved as State Landmark No. 329. John Bidwell was an important figure in California history. One of the successful early gold miners (Bidwell's Bar), he went on to purchase a very large acreage in the Chico area (about 26,000 acres) and to make it into one of the show place farms and horticultural centers of his time. Bidwell's marriage to Annie Kennedy precipitated completion of a great mansion, to replace the early cabin and later two-story adobe house in which Bidwell had been living. Begun in 1864 and completed in 1868, with Henry Cleaveland of San Francisco as architect, the Bidwell Mansion cost between $56,000 and $60,000 to build. A massive residence of brick, with a central tower on the facade and encircling one-story veranda of wood, Bidwell's new Mansion represented the Italian Villa at its purest in California. As the social center of Bidwell's vast Rancho Arroyo Chico, it was a mecca for the great and near-great of his time. After Mrs. Bidwell's death, the house was willed to the Presbyterian Church to be utilized as a Girls School. Due to lack of funds the Mansion was sold in 1921 for $10,000 to the State of California for Chico Normal School (now Chico State College). Used variously by the School, the building is now being restored by the Division of Beaches and Parks and will be a complete House Museum. Rancho Chico and Bidwell Adobe is California Registered Historical Landmark No. 329. The Bidwell Mansion, nearby, was completed in 1868.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-184
- Survey number: HABS CA-1317
- Building/structure dates: 1864- 1868 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1921 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1909 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72000216
- Subjects:
- mansions
- adobe buildings
- horticulture
- gold mining
- historic house museums
- education
- restoration (process)
- people associated with politics & government
- domestic life
- schools
- Italianate architectural elements
- log cabins
- deer parks
- experimental gardens
- Gothic Revival architectural elements
- Georgian architectural elements
- servants' quarters
- towers
- houses
- state parks & reserves
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 39.732344, -121.843563
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
- Bookmark This Record:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0059/
The Library of Congress generally does not own rights to material in its collections and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. For further rights information, see "Rights Information" below and the Rights and Restrictions Information page ( https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/rights.html ).
- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS CAL,4-CHIC,1-
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 10
Data Page(s): 10
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- Call Number: HABS CAL,4-CHIC,1-
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 10
Data Page(s): 10
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