Coulterville Main Street Historic District

The Coulterville Main Street Historic District is a historical district located in Coulterville, in Mariposa County, California. This area is defined as the historic downtown area of Coulterville along Main Street (State Highway 49) from the western junction of Highway 49 to the location of the old Chinatown on the eastern end. The district has 25 buildings which are representative of the California Gold Rush era and the early twentieth century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 12, 1982. Additionally, Coulterville has been designated as California Historical Landmark No. 332.

There were three significant fires that destroyed the majority of the buildings in the town of Coulterville and each time they had to rebuild with materials readily available to them in the area such as schist, adobe, and brick. Due to this repetitive loss and rebuilding of the town the Mother Lode vernacular architecture of the district is a layering of masonry ground floors and wood-frame upper floors with iron-shuttered windows and wooden verandas.

Some of the contributing buildings include the Jeffery Hotel (c. 1851), where President Theodore Roosevelt stayed in 1903; the Sun Sun Wo Company Store (1851), which is one of the best-preserved adobe commercial buildings in the Gold Country; and the Coulter Hotel (1860), which is currently home to the Northern Mariposa County History Center.