Building History

This Gothic Revival residence, owned by a "Mrs. Harding," burned on 12/10/1856. A note in the Placer Herald said, "The Gothic cottage belonging to Mrs. Harding, Sacramento, about which there was a dispute a day or two since, was set fire to by some unknown people on Wednesday monring and consumed." (See "Varieties," Placer Herald, 12/13/1856, p. 2.)Jim Thunder, Gothic-Calif Survey — PART 1 Chronicling America 04/2021–rev. 02/2023, [manuscript of notes and clippings], pp. 3. Manuscript sent from Mr. Thunder to the author on 03/02/2023. Many thanks to him for his diligent survey of early Gothic architecture in California.)

PCAD id: 24852