{"nrhp_refnum":"72000258","name":"West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District","other_names":["Miner Street-Third Street"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"102-402 W. Miner St. and 122-419 3rd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yreka","county":"Siskiyou County","state":"CA","lat":41.733531193500056,"lon":-122.63637209757064,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, made up of three commercial blocks on West Miner Street and four residential blocks on Third Street. Miner Street buildings date mainly from 1854 to 1900, and Third Street houses from 1861 to 1900.","why_significant":"The district is architecturally significant for its Italianate commercial buildings on Miner Street and its Victorian and Rural Gothic houses on Third Street. The Miner Street buildings matter most for their combined effect as a row. The two streets are also tied together by local history, since many Third Street residents had offices or businesses on Miner Street, including figures of state prominence.","narrative":"Yreka's West Miner Street-Third Street district pairs a commercial core with the neighborhood where its merchants and professionals lived. Three blocks of Miner Street hold brick row buildings with shared bearing walls, Italianate detailing and squared-off false fronts, dating mostly from 1854 to 1900. Many on the south side were rebuilt after the fire of 1871. Four blocks of Third Street contain Victorian houses with gingerbread ornament, balloon-frame construction and fine Rural Gothic cottages, most built in the 1890s. Standouts include the Stimmell Hardware building of 1856, the Bee Hive of 1897, the Franco-American Hotel of 1855 and the Rosborough house, the city's best Rural Gothic example. The district was recognized for its architecture and for its links to Yreka's gold-rush past and to residents such as Judge A. M. Rosborough, newspaper editor Robert Nixon Jr. and Governor William Irwin. Facade restoration and a local preservation ordinance were under way at the time.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; Miner St. 1854-1900 (plus one 1926 building), Third St. 1861-1900 (plus 8 later buildings)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate (Miner Street); Victorian and Rural Gothic (Third Street)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and altered. Restoration planning is underway, storefront stucco is being removed from brick facades, and a city ordinance with a review board is being adopted to protect the district.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.277137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/72000258.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000258/e0a63c7a05-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000258/e0a63c7a05-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Publichall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Miner_Street_in_Yreka,_CA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Publichall</a>, <a href=\"https://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:West_Miner_Street_in_Yreka,_CA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861991","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49578815"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/siskiyou-county/west-miner-street-third-street-historic-district-72000258/"}