This Greek Revival house on Broad Street was home to Aaron Augustus Sargent, one of the more consequential politicians to emerge from the Gold Country. A newspaper editor who arrived in Nevada City during the Gold Rush, Sargent went on to serve as a California congressman and senator, and in 1878 introduced the constitutional amendment that would eventually become women's suffrage.
The house itself is a well-preserved example of mid-19th-century domestic architecture in the California mining districts, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It's not open to the public interior, but the exterior is worth seeing as part of a walk along the upper end of Broad Street, past the Nevada Theatre and the Firehouse Museum.