Aaron A Sargent House
- Also Known As: Sargent-Freeman Home
- Address: 449 Broad St
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1852/00/00 | Aaron A Sargent | Home | Aaron A Sargent builds a four room, one story house, at the top of Broad Street. | |||
| 1856/10/00 | Ellen Clark Sargent | Home | My good husband had before my arrival provided for me a one story house of four rooms including a good sized pantry where he had already stored a bag of flour, a couple of pumpkins and various other edibles ready for use. - ECS | |||
| 1868/00/00 | Local merchant, Abraham Goldsmith, buys the Sargent house. Staying until 1870, Goldsmith served as the County Treasurer and was first President of the Nevada County Jewish Benevolent Society. | |||||
| 1869/00/00 | Ellen Clark Sargent | Vocation | Ellen Clark Sargent establishes the Nevada County Woman's Suffrage Association. Laura De Force Gordon and Susan B Anthony are guests in her home. Mr Sargent and Ellen became lifelong personal friends of Susan B Anthony. | American Women's Suffrage | ||
| 1870/00/00 | Richard W Tully, President of the Bank of Nevada County, acquires the Goldsmith house. The Tully family will live here until 1879. | |||||
| 1877/05/07 | Richard Walton Tully Jr is born the son of banker Richard W Tully Sr. Younge Tully, a future protege of Mrs Phoebe Hearst, will write the plays "The Bird of Paradise" and "The Rose of Rancho". | |||||
| 1879/00/00 | Mrs Phoebe Kidd buys the Tully residence. Mrs Kidd is the widow of Captain George Washington Kidd, a Nevada City pioneer entrepreneur with water, mining and banking interests. | |||||
| 1889/00/00 | J S Holbrook, a local postmaster, who held the office of Justice of the Peace for two terms, owns the Kidd residence from 1879 to 1889. | |||||
| 1891/00/00 | Dr Carl Lewis Muller, the first native son of Nevada County to become a physician, buys the Holbrook House. His wife will be the owner of first automobile in Nevada City. | |||||
| 1900/00/00 | Dr Muller's wife, a very vain, superficial woman, has to keep up with and surpass the Joneses. Dr Carl Muller indulges her every whim by adding on another room or embellishing the exterior as a surprise for his wife upon her return from a trip. | |||||
| 1923/00/00 | Local optometrist and Mayor of Nevada City, R J Bennetts becomes owner. Local townspeople are astonished when he installs copper roof, thinking the sum of $500.00 is extravagant. He also establishes the formal garden. |
| Particulars for Aaron A Sargent House: | |
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| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Area of Significance | Health-medicine |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Architectural Style | Italianate |
| Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
| Area of Significance | Law, Legal System |
| Criteria | Person |
| Area of Significance | Politics-government |
| Owner | Private |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
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