{"nrhp_refnum":"78000740","name":"Brewster House","other_names":["Cinquinis House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"206 5th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Galt","county":"Sacramento County","state":"CA","lat":38.25326944600005,"lon":-121.304823941,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame Italianate house at 206 Fifth Street in Galt, Sacramento County, California, built in 1869 by the Sawyer Brothers for John Brewster.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant architecturally and historically. It was built for John Brewster, Galt's first Federal Postmaster, and is a formal Italianate building of a style unusual for the region. It remains virtually unaltered and sits in the original town center near the old courthouse and jail.","narrative":"Built around 1869-70 by the Sawyer Brothers, this two-story wood-frame house at Fifth and B Streets in Galt was home to John Brewster, the town's first Federal Postmaster. Brewster came to Placerville from Illinois in 1854, worked in partnership with his brother for eleven years, and then moved to Sacramento County. The house is an offset T-shaped Italianate design with a gabled roof, boxed cornice on simple brackets, segmental arched windows with projecting architraves, and a veranda with square pillars and keystone-centered elliptical arches around three sides. Inside, most original woodwork and ceilings survive. A second bathroom was added about 1920 and a back porch removed, and a later restoration updated the wiring, plumbing, heating and insulation. The house stood in the center of early Galt, beside the original courthouse and jail. Its formal style was unusual for the region, and its largely unaltered condition makes it an important part of local architectural history.","period_of_significance":"1869-1870","architect_builder":"Sawyer Brothers","architectural_style":"Italianate (described also as formal Italian Renaissance)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored by its owners, with interior replastering, rewiring, replumbing, new heating and cooling, and insulation; described as otherwise unaltered and occupied as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.311895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/78000740.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000740/2175f16228-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000740/2175f16228-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Flickr user roarofthefour","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brewster_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr user roarofthefour</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brewster_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860547","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_House_(Galt,_California)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4962763"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/sacramento-county/brewster-house-78000740/"}