West Miner Street-Third Street Historic District

Yreka's West Miner Street-Third Street district pairs a commercial core with the neighborhood where its merchants and professionals lived. Three blocks of Miner Street hold brick row buildings with shared bearing walls, Italianate detailing and squared-off false fronts, dating mostly from 1854 to 1900. Many on the south side were rebuilt after the fire of 1871. Four blocks of Third Street contain Victorian houses with gingerbread ornament, balloon-frame construction and fine Rural Gothic cottages, most built in the 1890s. Standouts include the Stimmell Hardware building of 1856, the Bee Hive of 1897, the Franco-American Hotel of 1855 and the Rosborough house, the city's best Rural Gothic example. The district was recognized for its architecture and for its links to Yreka's gold-rush past and to residents such as Judge A. M. Rosborough, newspaper editor Robert Nixon Jr. and Governor William Irwin. Facade restoration and a local preservation ordinance were under way at the time.