Paul Matson | Other Voices
Recently two important buildings were destroyed by fire in downtown Nevada City: 414 and 416 Broad St. The first structure was a long-time single-family home and is a contributing building on the National Register of Historic Places. The second, a professional office building.
Nearly 100 buildings within the downtown Historic District are on the National Register because they have either an “association with events that have contributed significantly to history” or “they are an embodiment of distinct characteristics of a particular period, type of architecture or construction method.”
National Register status is a great distinction. The list is notably long for this small town: the Nevada Theatre, Miners Foundry, the Courthouse, two fire houses, City Hall, Ott’s Assay Office, two churches, National Exchange Hotel, South Yuba Canal Building, and on and on. The Register research was conducted by the late Nevada County historian Ed Tyson.