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1934
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A lil history on the building on where MHC has found its home, located at 6 and 8 Court St, Jackson
This two-story plastered brick Classical Revival building sets on the southeast corner of Main and Court Streets.
The 1863 facade was remodeled long ago. It now has a moderne façade, probably dating from the 1940’s
An upper facade, featuring an overhanging turret bay and a pediment-topped bay, has been removed sometime between 1934 and 1983. These bays can be seen in the 1934 HABS photo.
This building, on the Court Street side, has been known as the Marelia Block, after Marelia and Co.
On this site fronting Main Street was a “county clerk’s shanty” when Jackson’s Creek became the county seat of Calaveras on, July1, 1851.
In the mid-1850’s building boom, Charles Steckler and his partner erected a 2 story brick, a general merchandise store???.
It succumbed to the ’62 fire, but was rebuilt by February 1863.
The Masonic Hall was here from at least 1854 to 1862, and possibly until 1864.
A two story extension to the rear was built in 1873 and work may have continued on this addition into 1874. It was a drug store from early 1910 until sometime after 1983. The upstairs was used by the I.O.O.F. after 1862, before they purchased their own building in The late 1870's
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Info Provided by Amador County Historical Socielty
