F.L. Blanc, the first resident preacher of Julian, built one of three rentals near 3rd and "C" St. for his mining tenants, and this site still has the well drilled to provide them with running water so they no longer had to carry it two blocks uphill from the town well on Main St. Because his minister's pay of $50 a quarter was inadequate to raise a growing family of eight, he also used his carpenter skills on many buildings around Julian, ran a lumber mill on the north Cuymaca Mts., and had a mercantile store on Main St.