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NEVADA CITY
WALKING TOUR
• Start on Broad Street near the freeway
and in front of the National Hotel (#1).
• Walk up Broad, turn left on South Pine
Street, go one block (#2).
• Return and continue up Broad to the
split, cross street and head back (#3-5).
• Continue back down Broad (#6).
• At York Street, turn left to Chinese
Quarter and right on Commercial
Street (#7).
• Continue down Commercial to end and
Union Street and plaza (#8-9).
• Take Union back to Broad Street, cross
over freeway to Sacramento Street
which is to the right (#10).
Powell House
2. POWELL HOUSE: 203 S. Pine Street.
Dating from 1860, building was once home
to a soda works which manufactured car-
bonated drinks.
3. CITY HALL: 317 Broad Street. First built
on the site in 1878, replaced with “modern
building” in 1937 constructed by WPA.
Completely renovated.
4. NEVADA THEATRE: 401 Broad Street.
Opened in 1865 making it the oldest theatre
building in California.
5. HOMES OF INTEREST: 449 Broad Street is
believed to date from 1885 and at one time
housed a doctor’s office and a jail. Plaque on
the property honors Senator Aaron A.
Sargent, author of an amendment to the
U.S. Constitution which would have given
women the right to vote. He built a house
on the property in the 1850s.
Charles E. Mulloy home built in the late
1870s sits between East and West Broad
Streets. Mulloy, a successful businessman,
shocked residents when he hanged himself.
Emil Ott home, 450 Broad Street, was
built in 1910. His father was a well-
known assayer.
6. NEW YORK HOTEL: 408 Broad Street.
Dates from 1880, fire destroyed original
hotel built in 1863.
7. CHINESE QUARTER: Commercial and
York Streets. Existed from the beginning of
the Gold Rush to about 1879. Buildings
date from mid-1800s, among some of the
oldest in Nevada City.
8. SOUTH YUBA CANAL BUILDING: On
plaza at Commercial & Union Streets.
Headquarters for largest network of water
flumes and ditches in the state. Office used
from 1857 to 1880. Holdings later became
part of the PG&E hydroelectric system.
9. OTT’S ASSAY OFFICE: On plaza. James J.
Ott made historic assay of silver ore in 1858
which started the rush to the Comstock
Lode in Nevada.
10. THE OLD BREWERY: Corner of
Sacramento Street. Known today as The
Stone House. The building was constructed
of granite block from the Sierra around
1882. Lager was brewed on the site and
served to thirsty miners.
1. NATIONAL HOTEL: 211 Broad Street.
Opened in 1850s and has been going ever
since. Popular with important mining people
and miners, thousands of dollars in gold
passed over the bar which had been
shipped ‘round the Horn.
South Yuba Canal Building
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