{"nrhp_refnum":"84001210","name":"Sugg House","other_names":["Sugg House Antiques"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"37 Theall St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sonora","county":"Tuolumne County","state":"CA","lat":37.98372330300003,"lon":-120.38142513899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story house at 37 Theall Street in Sonora, Tuolumne County, California, built in 1857 as a single-story adobe sheathed in red brick and expanded with wood-frame additions and a second story in the 1880s. William Sugg built it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its intact 1880s classical-style architecture with a two-story gallery, and for incorporating one of the few surviving Gold Rush era adobes in the region. It is also significant in Black history, having been built by William Sugg, a manumitted slave, and his wife Mary, and occupied by the same family for over 120 years. It also played a role in local economic life by lodging guests.","narrative":"Sugg House, at 37 Theall Street in Sonora, began in 1857 as a three-room adobe built by William Sugg, who mixed the adobe on the site with friends. The adobe walls were covered with red brick, later painted red, which helped the building survive. In the 1880s, wood-frame bedrooms, a kitchen, a second floor of four bedrooms and a two-story front gallery were added, giving the house its present look with drop siding, cornice returns and a gable roof. Sugg had been born into slavery and obtained his freedom in California; he and his wife Mary raised eleven children here. The family occupied the home for about 125 years, and rooms upstairs were rented to travelers when local hotels were full, until 1921. The house is valued as one of Tuolumne County's few remaining Gold Rush era adobes, as a representative local example of classical architecture, and for its association with a Black pioneer family. It is surrounded by gardens and a picket fence.","period_of_significance":"1857-1880's","architect_builder":"William Sugg, builder","architectural_style":"Simplified classical styling","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and in commercial use as an antiques business; condition rated fair and altered, on its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.991285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/84001210.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001210/1f66a2e611-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001210/1f66a2e611-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Karl98007","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sugg_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Karl98007</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:Sugg_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862297","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugg_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133571590"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tuolumne-county/sugg-house-84001210/"}