Rothschild House (Port Townsend, Washington)
The Rothschild House is a house in Port Townsend, Washington. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is included in Port Townsend Historic District which was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. It was built by D. C. H. Rothschild. The house is managed by the Jefferson County Historical Society as a historic house museum. The life of D. C. H. Rothschild Early business ventures David Charles Henry Rothschild (1824-1885) was one of seven siblings from Sulzbach am Main, Bavaria. He came to the United States in the mid-1840s. His brother, William, nearly 15 years older, had preceded him to America and settled in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where he had an establishment called "The Kentucky Store". He joined his brother in this venture but, in 1848, he returned to Sulzbach for three months, then returned to America by way of Cape Horn, to San Francisco. There, he served as secretary of the Phoenix Quartz Mining Company and worked for both the Tehama Quartz Mining Company and the North California Mining Company. Later, he and a partner opened a store in Nevada City but sold out the following year, going first to New York and