{"nrhp_refnum":"07000507","name":"Paugh, William J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"406 Pitt St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jackson","county":"Amador County","state":"CA","lat":38.351379773000076,"lon":-120.77164424199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-06-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1½-story wood-frame Carpenter Gothic (Gothic Revival) house at 406 Pitt Street in Jackson, Amador County, California, built in 1860 and designed by Charles L. Parish.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the most prominent and sophisticated example of Carpenter Gothic design in the Mother Lode region and the most important Gothic Revival building in Amador County. It is the only documented surviving building designed by Parish and reflects the work of a skilled architect-craftsman under Criterion C.","narrative":"Built in 1860 at 406 Pitt Street in Jackson, this cruciform, 1½-story wood-frame house was designed by Charles L. Parish, a Gold Rush era architect, carpenter and illustrator. It displays a steep cross-gable roof, lancet windows with tracery, French doors, fret-sawn porch columns, decorative vergeboards with finials and a castellated porch parapet. Construction used mortise and tenon joinery and locally sourced pine millwork. The nomination presents it as the most sophisticated Carpenter Gothic house in the Mother Lode and the most important Gothic Revival building in Amador County, a striking contrast to the Greek Revival homes common in the region at the time. It is the only documented surviving building by Parish. Twentieth-century additions were removed in 2004 and 2005, and the porch and other features were recreated from an 1859 rendering by Charles and Arthur Nahl and an 1867 photograph. It remains a private single-family home.","period_of_significance":"1860","architect_builder":"Parish, Charles L.","architectural_style":"Gothic; Other: Carpenter Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; restored in 2004-2005, with later additions removed and missing features recreated, and a detached kitchen added in 2005.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.792235-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/07000507.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000507/7d1116658f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000507/7d1116658f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrychaix at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2006_photograph.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrychaix at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2006_photograph.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858408","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Paugh_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8013311"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/amador-county/paugh-william-j-house-07000507/"}