Rogers Ranch: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Point Reyes National Seashore
Regions 8, 9, 10, & 12 Park Cultural Landscapes Program. 2004. Rogers Ranch: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Point Reyes National Seashore. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 725170. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NPS Pacific West Regional Office, San Francisco, California / CRIS-CL Database
Inventory Unit Description: Rogers Ranch is an approximately 398-acre vernacular ranching landscape located near the center of the Point Reyes Ranches Historic District on Point Reyes Peninsula in Point Reyes National Seashore. Rogers Ranch is operated by Domingo Rogers and his family as a beef cattle ranch. The ranch is bounded north and northeast by M Ranch, southeast and south by N Ranch and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, and west by G Ranch and the marsh on the upper reaches of Schooner Bay. The ranch is bordered to the east by Inverness Ridge. The ranch complex is located within small valley, protected from prevailing winds off of the Pacific Ocean and located near natural swales and seasonal streams that lead east towards Drakes Estero. Rogers Ranch is surrounded by steep hills, composed primarily of grassland. Rogers Ranch appears today much as it did during its period of significance from 1946 to 1956 when the ranch was initially developed by the Grossi’s daughter and son-in-law, Mary and David Rogers. This period encompasses the construction of the major developments at the ranch including the roads, structures, and fencelines. Carved out of M Ranch in 1946 and developed as a Grade A dairy operation, the core of Rogers Ranch was built on the original M Ranch blacksmith site, which was a dairy operation from the 1860s-1870s. Roger Ranch core included a Grade A dairy barn, a milking barn, a calf shed, a hay barn, a garage, and several cabins and outbuildings. The buildings were organized into two linear alignments along two ranch roads; the large dairy-related buildings along an upper, northern road and residences, garages, and sheds along the southeastern road, that parallels Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Spatial organization, land use, vegetation, circulation, buildings and structures, and cluster arrangement are contributing landscape characteristics of the vernacular ranching landscape. Rogers Ranch is locally significant under Criteria A, B, and C and retains integrity according to the National Register of Historic Places’ standards, which define integrity through the aspects of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association. Overall, the landscape is in fair condition.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Regions 8, 9, 10, & 12 Park Cultural Landscapes Program
- Date of Issue
- 2004-09-15
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- PORE , PWR
- Keywords
- agriculture, architecture, barn, beef ranching, commerce, creamery, dairy ranching, exploration - settlement, family-owned farm, Grade A dairy, historic vernacular landscape, industrial production, livestock, ranching communities, ranching landscape, vernacular architecture
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 725202: Rogers Ranch