William J. Paugh House

California, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The William J. Paugh House, also known as Rosewall, is a remarkably pure example of Carpenter Gothic architecture located in Jackson, California, and one of very few such houses in Northern California. Built in the late 1850s by Charles L. Parish—artist, architect, and builder—the house was originally constructed as a romantic gesture to impress a schoolteacher Parish hoped to marry. After his intended bride died in a runaway accident, Parish raffled the house off for one dollar per ticket, selling 8,650 tickets across California in 1860 and 1861. Dr. William J. Paugh, Amador County's second sheriff, won the raffle in 1861 and lived there until 1870. The house subsequently passed through notable owners including Wells Fargo agent George Snowden Andrews and Superior Court Judge George Moore, who was shot and killed in its sitting room in 1884. In the twentieth century, it was home to Margaret Voss, who lived there for over 60 years and died in 2001 at age 102. The house was comprehensively restored between 2002 and 2006 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.