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8.A. - Page 225 <br /> New Sequoia Theater <br /> San Mateo Count y , CA <br /> 8 Si t, 3 Of SIGNIFICANCE <br /> Certifying official Peas considered the cignif i.cand a of the property in relation <br /> te. other properties: <br /> __nationally .ationally ,___--statewide ._ ...z locally <br /> Aff. blc Natio at Rceister Criteria R :LC <br /> Area of Significance: period of Significance: Significant Dates.: <br /> h <br /> fax hectare 1 928 1928 <br /> Sign icant Person: Ar `hi €ec €.Builder <br /> tti�r Reid, James William . Merritt lames /Pasg tie €ti, C.l <br /> State significance ` pttoperty, and justify criteria, criteria cons ieeation area <br /> periods of significance noted above. <br /> The New Sequoia Fox) Theater Building in Redwood City derives ito <br /> significance under criterion C as pan example of Late Gothic Revival deli` :: x. <br /> a c.,ra.ce:cisl building in Redwood City during the late 1920s. <br /> Redwood City was one of the earliest American settlements in San Mater <br /> County, and would become its first incorporated town. It was cstrat hs.bed in <br /> 1 8 49 as a port anc shipping point for lumber being cut along the easterrt <br /> slopes of the Sierra Moreno. Spanish attorney Simon Mezes acquired the <br /> property in 1853 as part of hiti contractual agreement with try: Luis Aeiyt ely._ <br /> fainiiy for cieare.ng the title to their 55,000 -acre Las Puigas rancho. In the <br /> mid-1850s Mezes surveyed and mapped a town site at the port to be calleal <br /> tlezesvii.le. However, in 1856 when the developing community became the <br /> county teat and a U.S. post office was established on Broadway, the retail <br /> centet y ?f the town, it was renamed Redwood City. <br /> eaT,, charade of the l B6Os saw a gradual decline in the lumbering industry <br /> and a rise la agricuitural development, expedited in part by the completion <br /> cf the San n eancisco and San Jose Railroad in 1864. By 1867, when the cit t' 1 <br /> 500 inhabitant; voted for incorporation, the retail core was moving west <br /> alone„ Broadway toward the railroad depot. The taxing authority created cy, <br /> incoT pow ation resulted in a series of civic improvements including a water <br /> sysecar: and Via. =efi streets. Elect i1; lighting would come in 1889. Leal <br /> buisinessmen dominated civic affairs and played a major role in town polities. <br />