Marconi-RCA Bolinas Transmitting Station

Mesa Road; Point Reyes National Seashore., Bolinas, California. County/parish: Marin.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 23, 2018. NRIS 100002108.

8 contributing buildings. 2 contributing sites. 3 contributing structures.

Also known as:

  • Station KPH

From Wikipedia:

Marconi-RCA Bolinas Transmitting Station

The Marconi-RCA Bolinas Transmitting Station, on Mesa Road in Bolinas, Marin County, California, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

The station was built in 1914 by Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) and taken over by RCA after World War I. It is one of six Point Reyes sites listed on the National Register in 2018. The station is recognized as a cultural landscape-type resource.

It was photographed by Jet Lowe and listed as "Marconi Radio Sites, Transmitting, Point Reyes Station, Marin County, CA," in the Historic American Engineering Record.

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