Ashworth-Remillard House

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Ashworth-Remillard House
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Location755 Story Road, San Jose, California
Coordinates 37°19′43″N121°51′34″W / 37.32861°N 121.85944°W / 37.32861; -121.85944 (Ashworth-Remillard House)
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1860 (1860)
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No. 76000529 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 12, 1976

The Ashworth-Remillard House is a historic two-story farm house in San Jose, California. The house was designed in the Victorian architectural style. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 12, 1976. [1] It was built for a pioneer in 1860, and it later became the home of Peter Remillard and his daughter, Countess Lillian Remillard Dandini.

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History

The house was built in 1860 for James Ashworth, who left his native Kentucky to take part in the California Gold Rush. [2] He subsequently settled in San Jose on 250 acres of land, where he became a farmer and lived with his wife and seven children, until his died in 1895. [2] [3] [4]

The property was purchased in 1891 by Peter Remillard, an immigrant from Canada. [2] Remillard had also participated in the California Gold Rush. [2] By 1861, he founded the Remillard Brick Company. After he purchased Ashworth's house in 1891, he established another brick-manufacturing business on the grounds, with several outbuildings. [2] The bricks were used to build many houses and buildings in San Jose until it closed down in 1968. Peter Remillard remodeled and enlarged the farmhouse while maintaining the Victorian style. [4]

The house was inherited by Countess Lillian Remillard Dandini. [4] However, the countess had spent only her summers as a child in the house, and she resided at Carolands from 1950 to 1973. [2]

In 1968, the house was transferred to Dandini's longtime friend and neighbor, Joseph Covey and his partner, architect, Dick Gilbert. [4] After Gilbert's death in 1997, Covey's health declined and the house was used by transients and homeless people until it was boarded up 10 years later. [4] [5] In 2007, Sue Cucuzza, a brick collector, found the house in disrepair. [4] Cucuzza decided to work with Covey, in order to remove the transient people and to raise money to clean, restore and preserve the home. [4] [5] The house was owned by Cucuzza as of 2024. [6] [7] The records of Remillard Brick Company had been found in the house and were donated to History San Jose Research Library. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ashworth-Remillard House". National Park Service . Retrieved July 22, 2018. With accompanying pictures
  3. "Death of James Ashworth. He Came to California from Kentucky in 1852" . The San Francisco Call. September 17, 1895. p. 4. Retrieved July 22, 2018 via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rodriguez, Joe (September 22, 2010). "Saving the Countess Dandini's old house in San Jose". The Mercury News. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Joseph Covey, owner of historic Ashworth-Remillard house in San Jose, dies". The Mercury News. 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  6. "Inside the Ashworth-Remillard House". SJ Today. November 3, 2022.
  7. "Members-Only Ashworth-Remillard House Tour". Preservation Action Council of San Jose.
  8. "Remillard Brick Company Records". Online Archive of California.