Architectural Tours of Arcata >Touring Central Arcata, Destination # 39
Nixon House
1022 10th Street
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Built: 1858
Period: Settlement Architecture c. 1850-1885Description:
Constructed in 1858, this is the only house in Arcata built in the Gothic Revival style and is one of the oldest houses in the city. Its builder, James A. Kleiser, had many of its features (the diamond-paned windows, marble fireplaces and the entrance hall's newel post and banister) shipped from New York "around the Horn". Kleiser owned the house for less than one year. The next owner, J.A.B. Faulkner, lost the house due to delinquent tax payments and the house passed to ownership by local businessmen A. Jacoby and James Michael. In 1861 the house was bought by William Nixon with a purchase price of 500 sacks of potatoes and a $20 survey fee. The house remained in the Nixon family for 110 years.