{"nrhp_refnum":"80000825","name":"Sargent, Aaron A., House","other_names":["Sargent-Freeman Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"449 Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nevada City","county":"Nevada County","state":"CA","lat":39.263420144000065,"lon":-121.02158259199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Health/Medicine","Law","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame Italianate-style residence with a carriage house and barn and a landscaped garden, at 449 Broad Street in Nevada City, California. Aaron A. Sargent built it in 1856 after his first home burned, and it was altered between 1900 and 1918.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its link to Aaron Augustus Sargent, a California political leader and U.S. Senator who authored the transcontinental railroad bill and the first women's suffrage amendment. It is also tied to his wife Ellen Clark Sargent, an early suffragist, and to later prominent local residents. The grounds are noted for landscape architecture and outstanding botanical specimens.","narrative":"Set on a 0.7-acre hillside site on Nevada City's Nabob Hill, this house was built in 1856 by Aaron Augustus Sargent after fire destroyed his earlier home on the same lot. Sargent, a printer, newspaper editor and lawyer, went on to serve in Congress and the U.S. Senate. He wrote the bill creating the Transcontinental Railroad and the 1878 suffrage amendment later known as the Anthony Amendment. His wife, Ellen Clark Sargent, founded the first women's suffrage group in Nevada County in 1869. Later owners included a bank president, a postmaster, and Dr. Carl Muller, who between 1900 and 1918 enlarged the house and gave it its Italianate look, with a long veranda and Corinthian columns. A copper roof was added in the 1920s, when a formal garden was also developed. A carriage house and barn with a turntable survives on the grounds, which hold a 140-foot sequoia and other notable plantings.","period_of_significance":"1852 to 1868","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and occupied as a private residence; the carriage house is in good condition apart from board-and-batten siding due for replacement in 1980.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.502149-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/80000825.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000825/bf9723135a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000825/bf9723135a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renata Earles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_A._Sargent_House_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renata Earles</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:Aaron_A._Sargent_House_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860155","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_A._Sargent_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4661790"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/nevada-county/sargent-aaron-a-house-80000825/"}