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Title: Volume 061-1 - January 2007 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 6 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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North Auburn Street, according to his obituary in the Morning Union of March 20, 1900. His son, born on April 11, 1866, went to work for William M. Treloar as a grocery clerk at the age of 15, and was still working for him at the time of his marriage to Theresa. In 1891, at the age of 25, William Provis Jr. opened his own grocery next door to his father-in-law’s Owl Saloon on Mill Street, and sometime prior to 1895 this house at 128 High Street was built for the young couple. He was a successful businessman and served several terms on the board of city trustees. When Provis retired in 1920 his Mill Street store became the Andrew Grocery (today it is occupied by the Owl Grill.) Upon retirement he and his family moved to San Francisco, where he died four years later, shortly before his 58th birthday. He was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Grass Valley. After serving as a boarding house, the home was beautifully restored, both inside and out, in 1992. Its present owners, Cheryl Wicks and Curt Romander, have contributed documents, drawings and writings collected by Nora Hamilton, a former owner. ¢ Heritage Home 39 at 104 Walsh Street Home of Gregory and Dolores Bulanti THIS ONE-STORY FOLK VICTORIAN is located on a lot owned in the early 1850s by John S. Lambert, the Grass Valley agent for Adams & Co., a pioneer California express company. The front porch supports of the home display detailed spindlework. This style of architecture was popularized by the advent of the Pacific transcontinental railroad, that made delicately crafted building materials more available and affordable in the Far West. Lambert sold the lot to Conrad K. Hotaling in 1857. Hotaling, who was part-owner of the Empire Gold Mining Co., which owned half of the Empire Mine in 1852, built the Grass Valley water system in 1858. Both Lambert and Hotaling had been acquainted with Lola Montez when she lived on the other side of Walsh Street, and they also had been well acquainted with Judge James Walsh, for whom the street was named. Hotaling had married Maggie McCarty in 1856, and in 1871 he sold the Walsh Street property to his brother-in-law, Charles C. Wymore, who had NCHS Bulletin January 2007 Annie Martin Polkinghorn in 1892. (Photo from “When Miners Sang,” by Gage . — McKinney.) . married Maria A. McCarty in 1863. Built in 1881, it was owned for about 30 years by Richard James Polkinghorn and his wife, Annie Martin. Richard was born in Truro, Cornwall, about 1868, and he came to Pennsylvania with his parents as a young child. After first working in the mines at Grass Valley he was employed as a custodian at the former Columbus School on South Auburn Street, and also at the Grass Valley Methodist Church. When he died in 1943, at the age of 75, the Morning Union said, “Polkinghorn will be recalled by hundreds of former Grass Valley school students as the courteous and accommodating custodian. .. He held the complete confidence and esteem of the students through several decades and was as highly regarded by Grass Valley townspeople.” Richard and Annie Polkinghorn had one daughter, Janet, and two grandchildren, Dorothy and Richard Harden. According to Dorothy, her grandmother, Annie Polkinghorn, not only sang in the Methodist choir, but often was invited to sing with Grass Valley’s mostly male Cornish Carol Choir because of her fine alto voice. After her husband’s death, Annie continued to live at 104 Walsh Street until she sold it and moved to San Francisco in 1949 to be with her daughter. There were several owners between then and 1975, when it was purchased by Thomas Marlor. A retired engineer, he was a contractor in the Grass Valley area until his death in 1993. The house remained in the Marlor family until it was purchased by the current owners, Gregory and Dolores Bulanti, in 2003.