5-543: The Carter House Inn is a hotel in Old Town Eureka, California . It is known both for housing Restaurant 301 and for being a replica of a Queen Anne style building by Newsom and Newsom, renowned builder architects of many 19th century structures in California. The Inn's restaurant, Restaurant 301, has a 3800 bottle collection of wine and has been "Grand Award" from Wine Spectator magazine since 1998. It
10-882: A bed and breakfast to recoup the losses. Old Town Eureka Old Town Eureka (formally the Eureka Old Town Historic District ) in Eureka, California , is a historic district listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places . It is a 350-acre (1.4 km ) area containing 154 buildings mostly from the Victorian era . The core of the district runs the length of First, Second, and Third Streets, between "C" and "M" Streets, and includes many types of architecture including Eastlake, Queen Ann, Greek Revival, Classical Revival, and Second Empire styles from
15-523: Is one of only 20 other restaurants in the world to have maintained the award for such a length of time. Reality show star Curtis Stone once served as the head chef. The building is a replica of an earlier structure originally located in San Francisco. Murphy House was constructed as a large home in 1884 by the builder architects Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom of the firm Newsom and Newsom. These 19th-century Victorian architects also built
20-571: The Carson Mansion at virtually the same time in Eureka. However, the Murphy home was completely destroyed by the fire resulting from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . Mark Carter found the blueprints for the home in an antique store and rebuilt the structure but in Eureka. The building was originally intended to be a private residence but, due to construction cost overruns, it was opened as
25-404: The 1850s to the 20th century. Though not officially within the district, the Carson Mansion commands the highest elevation at the eastern edge of the district. The city began as an 1850 settlement on the edge of Humboldt Bay . Developers and settlers planned for Eureka to aid in the provision of miners working inland to the east. By 1865, the central core of what would become Eureka's "Old Town"
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