The Tucker-Rutherford Cottage
9th Street

miner's home
Construction Date: 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Acquisition Date: 1977

The Tucker-Rutherford Cottage is typical in scale and represents the many miner's homes once built throughout the valley. Due to poor construction, few of these small vernacular woodframe structures remain today.

Albert and James Tucker owned this building throughout most of the 19th century, probably using it for rental income. The two brothers owned stores in both the northern and southern part of town, as well as other residential properties. The house was donated to HGI by Frank "Buff" and Mary Lou Rutherford.