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The Benjamin Holt House is a private home in
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. Built in 1869, it was added to the
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in 1982. With


History

The home was purchased by Benjamin Brown for his family. When
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, a business man whose family-held companies would eventually merge to form the
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, married Brown's daughter Anna, Holt moved into their family home. At the time that Brown purchased the house, it was adjacent to the El Dorado Brewing Company and diagonally across from the state mental hospital. The house is a two-story,
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, wood-frame structure, that has had numerous additions since it was first built. A garage was added in 1904 to house the family's new car. The living area is on a half-acre lot. Since 1980, part of the property has served as headquarters for the Forty-Niner Council, Boy Scouts of America.


References

{{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in San Joaquin County, California Colonial Revival architecture in California Houses completed in 1869