{"nrhp_refnum":"85002303","name":"Nevada Brewery","other_names":["Old Nevada Brewery","Old Stone Brewery"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"107 Sacramento St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nevada City","county":"Nevada County","state":"CA","lat":39.26169854400007,"lon":-121.01572003599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2-1/2 story rough-cut granite brewery building at 107 Sacramento Street, Nevada City, California. The north portion dates to the mid-1850s and the south portion was added in 1882-83 by George Gehrig.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of two surviving breweries of the 15 once in Nevada County and the only one left in Nevada City. It is the largest commercial granite building surviving in the area, and granite buildings are rare in the Mother Lode and the state. It also reflects the importance of brewing in the Gold Rush era.","narrative":"Built of quarried rough-cut granite with lime mortar, this brewery at 107 Sacramento Street in Nevada City has two main parts. The north section dates to the mid-1850s. In 1882-83 George Gehrig added the south section on the site of Temperance Hall, which burned in 1881. The result is an unusual parallelogram-shaped plan. Brewing became a major industry after the Gold Rush, and Nevada County once had 15 breweries. This building is the only one left in Nevada City and one of two remaining in the county. It is the largest commercial granite building surviving in the area, and granite construction of this kind is rare in California. Simon Hieronimus moved his brewing operations here in 1893 and made steam beer until his death in 1911. Prohibition ended bottling, and later owners used the building and its hillside cooling cave for bar, dining and dancing businesses. It was unoccupied at the time of nomination and undergoing renovation.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"George Gehrig (owner/builder of the 1882-83 addition)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and vacant; the building is currently being renovated under the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.820744-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/85002303.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002303/6236334390-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002303/6236334390-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Rifflebox","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevada_Brewery_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rifflebox</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevada_Brewery_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123860142","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Brewery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7003364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/nevada-county/nevada-brewery-85002303/"}