Gould--Shaw House

Thomas Jefferson Gould, an Indiana-born blacksmith, built this house in 1862, and it became an important part of the town’s history. One of the few surviving examples of Gothic Revival architecture, it is the oldest documented dwelling in Cloverdale. Isaac Ellis Shaw bought the house from Gould in 1875 and lived there with his wife and two children. After his wife’s death, Shaw remarried, moved his new wife Minerva into the house, and had another two children. Shaw died in 1905, and his wife lived there until her death in 1938. The Cloverdale Historical Society purchased the house in 1983, and it underwent major renovations and retrofitting in the late 1990s.

Cloverdale, California · United States