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NCHS Bulletin January 2007
¢ Heritage Home 37 at 153 Race Street
Home of Gerald and Judith Neumann
ANOTHER QUEEN ANNE, this is a one-story version
with the typical hipped roof and lower cross gables. Characteristically, the roof gable overhangs a cutaway bay window. On this house a pent roof forms the overhang, that is
accentuated by corner brackets and knobs. The ornamented
and textured gable was used as a decorative element, and to
avoid a flat wall surface. The partial width front porch has
turned posts and lacelike brackets. The home is painted two
shades of blue, with raspberry and cream trim.
This house was lived in for 62 years by members of the
William T. Garland family—from its purchase in 1910 for
$1650, until 1972. William Trevorah Garland was born in
England on December 9, 1855. At the age of nineteen he
immigrated to the U.S., traveling extensively and seeing
much of the country. At Tombstone, Arizona, he met Jane
Bishop, who had been born on June 21, 1866 in Redruth,
Cornwall, and they were married in Arizona about 1884.
Their three children, Elizabeth, William Jr., and Ethel were
born in Tombstone between 1885 and 1888, and then the
family moved to Grass Valley. William Garland Sr. had a
long and successful career as a gold miner. He was foreman
of the W.Y.O.D. (“Work Your Own Diggings’’) and Pennsylvania mines. He died at Grass Valley in 1930 at the age
of 74. His wife, Jane Bishop Garland, died five years later.
Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, graduated from Grass
Valley High School in 1902 and soon began a long teaching
career in Grass Valley that ended in 1950. Elizabeth Garland remained in the family home on Race Street until her
death on January 25, 1972, at the age of 85.
William Garland Jr. apprenticed as a machinist at Taylor
Foundry after graduating from high school in 1904. He was
employed there for about 10 years and then went to work
for the county as a deputy treasurer and tax collector. He
served in the Naval Aviation Corps during World War I, and
was elected County Treasurer in 1922. At the end of his
term he was offered the position of cashier at the First
National Bank. He was its manager when Bank of America
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acquired the firm, and held various positions with Bank of
America until his retirement. He lived in the family home
with his sister Elizabeth until his death in 1963 at age 75.
The youngest Garland, Ethel Louise, married Joseph
Francis O’Connor, an engineer, in the family home on Ma¥™,
28, 1917. Ethel was a nurse and superintendent at the Jones
Memorial Hospital for many years, and she died in 1953.
¢ Heritage Home 38 at 128 High Street
Home of Curtis Romander and Cheryl Wicks
THIS HOUSE ON TOP OF NOB HILL was built in the
early 1890s. Another Queen Anne Victorian, it has a hipped
roof with cross gables, the most common for this style g@™
Today it retains most of its original footprint, with a small
addition to the back that retains the architectural style of the
period. The Nevada County Mining Review of 1895 called it
“an elegant new home at the corner of Neal and High
Streets,” and it appears on page 175 of 1895 Pictorial History of Nevada County, published in 2000.
The land was owned by Robert Cash in 1872, and before
this house was built, the Murphy family owned the property,
which included their own large home and a barn. Mr. Murphy owned the Owl Saloon on Mill Street, and on March 28,
1887, Theresa Murphy married William Provis Jr. The
couple’s daughter, Alma Provis, was born on the same day.
William Provis Sr., the 21-year-old groom’s father, came
to the area in the early 1860s and was a miner who lived on
The High Street house and William Provis Jr. in 1895.