Andrew J. Landrum House

Santa Clara, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerCalifornia Office of Historic Preservation↗

Built in 1875 by Santa Clara pioneer Andrew J. Landrum, this two-story wooden residence at 1217 Santa Clara Street exemplifies Victorian-era eclecticism, combining Italianate and Carpenter Gothic elements drawn from period pattern books. The T-shaped wooden structure features steeply gabled rooflines with cross-bracing, corner quoins, an Italianate porch with scroll brackets, and a cruciform interior plan, all crowned by a brick chimney. Notably, the Landrum House was among the few Santa Clara buildings whose chimney survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake intact. Remarkably unaltered over more than a century, it remains one of the city's oldest and best-preserved houses, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.