[1] It is located on the Garcia River near Buckridge Road, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Point Arena.

Its significance is stated in the National Register nomination:The Buckridge Ranch House is an excellent example of a building form that first arrived in the United States with English settlers in the seventeenth century and continued to be built in one guise or another for over 2OO years.

This kind of building, called an I—house, has a rectangular form, two stories with two rooms on each, and a symmetrical facade.

The building displays all the characteristics of a Tidewater I-house (form, height, fenestration, roof, and porch) in an unusually pure example.

The board-and-batten siding is typical of the early settlement of California, while the log porch supports add a rustic note.