Shaw House (Ferndale, California)

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location= 703 Main St., Ferndale, California
lat_degrees = 40
lat_minutes = 34
lat_seconds = 45
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 124
long_minutes = 15
long_seconds = 39
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
built =1854
architect= Seth Shaw
architecture= Gothic Revival, Carpenter GothicNational Register of Historic Places
added = September 13, 1984
governing_body = Private
refnum=84000777cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Shaw House is an historic Carpenter Gothic style house located at 703 Main Street in Ferndale, California. It was built in 1854 by Seth Shaw, who with his brother Stephen Shaw had arrived by canoe in 1852 to build a cabin, clear some land, claim it and found Ferndale. In designing the house, Seth Shaw was inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables. It served as the area's first courthouse as well as post office. [Tapper, Joan, "The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California", with photographs by Nik Wheeler, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007, pp, 22-23. ISBN 978-0-500-51368-2] cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] [ [http://www.shawhouse.com/inn/inn.html Shaw House Inn: Rich in history] ]

On September 13, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today it is the oldest house in Ferndale and is the Shaw House Inn, a bed and breakfast. It still features the marble fireplace that Isabella Shaw, Seth's bride, picked out at Gump's in San Francisco.cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] [Tapper, Joan, "The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of California", with photographs by Nik Wheeler, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007, pp, 22-23. ISBN 978-0-500-51368-2] [ [http://www.shawhouse.com/inn/inn.html Shaw House Inn: Rich in history] ]

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* [http://www.shawhouse.com/ Shaw House Inn website]