{"nrhp_refnum":"82002169","name":"DePue, Grace Blair, House and Indian Museum","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215 Court St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jackson","county":"Amador County","state":"CA","lat":38.349410946000035,"lon":-120.77140714099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story frame house built in 1872 at 215 Court Street in Jackson, Amador County, California, with a separate two-story masonry Indian Museum Building from the 1930s on the same parcel. The house was originally built by Edward Muldoon.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is locally significant for Grace Blair DePue, a prominent business person and philanthropist whose collection of Native American artifacts preserved aspects of Miwok cultural heritage. It also holds that the house is a typical Mother Lode residence, with porches, shutter-trimmed double-hung windows and French glass doors. The house was also home to early local business people such as Edward Muldoon and Isaac Peiser.","narrative":"This property on Court Street in Jackson, California, combines a Mother Lode house with a small museum building. Edward Muldoon, a saloon keeper and cattle man, built the original frame house in 1872. Isaac Peiser, a dry goods merchant, bought it in 1874. The Blair family added five rooms, porches and a gabled wing in 1900, giving the house the form it largely keeps today. Grace Blair DePue later inherited it along with the Jackson Water Works. She worked among local Miwok people and gathered thousands of baskets, ornaments and tools, along with pieces from other tribes and regions. In the 1930s she built a masonry museum with a Spanish tile roof beside the house to display them, partly for fire protection. Her collection went to the University of California at Berkeley after her death in 1944. The house was altered in the 1950s and restored in 1980. It is valued for its local architecture and for her philanthropy.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900- (specific dates 1872; 1900; 1930)","architect_builder":"Unknown (form lists builder/architect as Unknown; original house built by Edward Muldoon)","architectural_style":"Mother Lode residential style; the Indian Museum Building is described as unique","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence; the house was restored in 1980 to its 1900 appearance, and the Indian Museum Building is now a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.944685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/82002169.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002169/d28a3f63f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82002169/d28a3f63f5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Bobak Ha'Eri","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0724-CA-Jackson-DePeuHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bobak Ha'Eri</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2009-0724-CA-Jackson-DePeuHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858391","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133258483"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/amador-county/depue-grace-blair-house-and-indian-museum-82002169/"}