Judge & Nunan's Saddlery, 165 East California Street, Jacksonville, Jackson County, OR

Significance: The site of Judge and Nunan's Saddlery was part of the Union Hotel lot until C.C. Beekman took title to the land in 1858. In 1860, Beekman sold a fifty-by-two-hundred-foot lot near the middle of the block to P.J. Ryan. The deed included the provision that, if Ryan improved the land with a building, the structure would have to be stone or brick and that Beekman would have the right to attach a building to any that Ryan might build. Ryan did not build a structure on the land, however; the site appears as a vacant lot on the 1864 map of Jacksonville. In 1868, Beekman sold the lot to Louis Horne, owner of the United States Hotel, who may have planned to extend his "hall" as far as Ryan's buildings. Horne, however, sold the lot to Henry Judge and Jeremiah Nunan in 1874. The following year, Nunan bought Judge's share of the saddlery business; during this period, the value of the property rose five times, suggesting that the Judge and Nunan building was erected in 1874-5. In 1876, Nunan sold the undeveloped part of his lot with a frontage of about fifteen feet on California Street back to C.C. Beekman. The east boundary described in the deed is "the line of the West wasll of the brick building owned by Jerry Nunan" to which wall Beekman had the right to attach a building. This provision continued in the deed from Beekman to George and Jeanne Holt in 1878, and the Holts exercised the privilege in constructing their new brick United States Hotel.
Survey number: HABS OR-87
Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 Initial Construction