1120 North Broadway
Built 1928 |
Style: Dutch Colonial
#6 on the Map
Deed: Recorded January 20, 1928. Consideration: $1,500.00. C.F. Smith and Jessie M. Smith, Husband and wife, to Carl T. Nelson.
The Carl and Agnes Nelson House
Carl was a blacksmith. He and his father repaired timber industry equipment. As payment for repair work he did for a carnival passing through town, Carl received a shooting gallery which he installed in the basement. Parties would generally end up with the women in the living room and the men in the basement firing .22s at the steel rabbits and giraffes. After Carl’s death, Agnes lived on in the house until shortly before her death at 100. The house is now owned by Nelson’s grand-nephew, Peter Scroggs and his wife, Kristen.
There is a wood lift from the basement to the living room for the fireplace.