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词条 Polly Bemis House
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  1. History and background

  2. See also

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox NRHP | name =Polly Bemis House
| nrhp_type =
| image = PollyBemisHouse1994.png
| caption = Polly Bemis House in July 1994
| nearest_city= Riggins, Idaho
| coordinates = {{coord|45|25|59|N|115|40|13|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Idaho#USA
| area = {{convert|200|acre|ha}}
| built = 1894, rebuilt 1923
| architect=
| architecture=
| designated_nrhp_type=
| added = March 4, 1988[1]
| governing_body = Private non-profit
| refnum=87002152[1]
}}Polly Bemis House was the home of Idaho County, Idaho pioneers Charles Bemis and his wife Polly Bemis, who lived alongside the Salmon River in the late 19th and early 20th century. Polly was a Chinese American former teenage slave whose story became a biographical novel and was fictionalized in the 1991 film A Thousand Pieces of Gold.[2][3]

History and background

Charlie and Polly Bemis were among the first pioneers to settle along the Salmon River (The River of No Return), only several yards from the riverside.[2][3] It was a mining claim rather than a homestead.[4] Even today this house is not accessible by road; boats are a common means of access.[2] In 1922, a fire gutted the Bemis home on the Salmon River, possibly caused by an untended or overheated woodstove; Charlie died soon afterwards. He had been ill in the previous several years, reportedly suffering from a lung ailment (probably tuberculosis).[5] In 1923, Peter Klinkhammer and Charlie Shepp, who lived on the other side of the Salmon River on the east side of the confluence of Crooked Creek,[6] helped Polly to rebuild a new home in the same spot as the one that burned down. Except for a short stay in Warren, Idaho, she lived there until 1933, when she moved to Grangeville, Idaho, dying shortly thereafter.[5] While on a trip to Boise, Idaho, she stayed at the Idanha hotel and saw her first movie, rode her first streetcar, and had her first elevator ride.[5][7][8]

The Polly Bemis House is located {{convert|44|mi|km}} east of Riggins, Idaho, and {{convert|17|mi|km}} north of Warren, Idaho.[9][10]

The house meets two criteria of the National Register of Historic Places: criterion A for its connection with the social history of Chinese women in Idaho and criterion C as an excellent example of wooden logs and shingles construction and of the gable-front single-pen dwellings used in the central Idaho mountains. Some stone was also used in its construction.[1] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 4, 1988.[1] It is also the only structure on the inventory constructed with whipsawn lumber. About 15 x 20 feet in dimension, it has two rooms on the first floor, a half story sleeping loft, a gable front, and overhanging roof.[11][12] Chinese miners made up almost half the population of this region during the late 1800s but suppression forced most to move to Chinatowns on the west coast. Few records exist of most of them, but there are many documents about Polly, making her home and experience significant.[12]

It is now part of the {{convert|26|acre|ha}} non-profit Polly Bemis Ranch.[9]

The home of Klinkhammer and Shepp is now a guest ranch known as Shepp Ranch.[6]

See also

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Idaho County, Idaho

References

1. ^{{NRISref|version=2010a|dateform=mdy}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mccunn.com/PollyBemis.html|title=Polly Bemis|publisher=Ruth McCunn|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}
3. ^{{cite journal|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/crdi/publications/CRM_Vol1_01_Reviews.pdf|title=Polly Bemis:A Chinese American Pioneer|journal=CRM Journal|date=Fall 2003|pages=115–117|last=Eigeman|first=Anne|format=PDF|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/aacc/RESEARCH.HTM#Polly|work= Asian American Comparative Collection: Ongoing Research|title=Polly Bemis|publisher=The University of Idaho|last=Wegars|first=Priscilla|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}
5. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyedEk_BfIoC&pg=PA308&lpg=PA308&dq=polly+bemis+klinkhammer+built&source=bl&ots=k-ToFGCV3v&sig=JlGhucbUSjHLilZxxFG_8yf6M14&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pYfuTr2bIaqG2gWlrPSkDw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=polly%20bemis%20klinkhammer%20built&f=false|title=Thousand Pieces of Gold|publisher=Beacon Press|location=Boston, MA|year=2004|page=308|last=McCunn|first=Ruthanne Lum|accessdate=December 24, 2011|isbn=0-8070-8381-X}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sheppranch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ranch-layout-2_large.jpg|title=Key of Map to Sheepp Ranch|publisher=Shepp Ranch|accessdate=December 26, 2011}}
7. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muuCQRgTaiEC&pg=PR12&lpg=PR12&dq=polly+bemis+boise+streetcar&source=bl&ots=eBZJmXbnN7&sig=4TDCTCqyfMsvAd89_cVDim9JTyo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XYXuTtbXJ-rHsQK1se3PCw&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=bemis&f=false|title=The Idanha: Guests and Ghosts of an Historic Idaho Inn|publisher=Caxton Press|location=Caldwell, ID|year=1984|page=xii|last=D'Easum|first=Dick|accessdate=December 24, 2011|isbn=0-87004-414-1}}
8. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_Jk1fLu2toC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=polly+bemis+klink+grangeville+august+1933&source=bl&ots=UpPSWjrTS0&sig=s7CD56BbaBbgci6SRBZ915QST-w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r4vuTpDgCMXI2wXEpt2kDw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Wild Women of the Old West|publisher=Fulcrum Publishing|location=Golden, CO|year=2003|pages=57–61|last=Riley|first=Glenda|author2=Richard Etulain|accessdate=December 24, 2011|isbn=1-55591-295-8}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pollybemis.com/|title=Polly Bemis Ranch|publisher=Polly Bemis Ranch|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mapquest.com/?q=45.433056,-115.670272&zoom=8|title=45.433056,-115.670272|publisher=Mapquest|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/resources/site.htm?id=18647|title=Polly Bemis House|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=December 24, 2011}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/asia/2000/feature00.htm#Bemis|title=Polly Bemis House|publisher=National Park Service|work=Asian-Pacific Heritage Month|accessdate=December 16, 2011}}

External links

{{Commons category|Polly Bemis}}
  • Polly Bemis Ranch - official site
  • [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2026&dat=19880108&id=R5QrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6tAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3315,1145947 Idahonian Daily News article announcing placement on the NRHP is pending]
{{Registered Historic Places}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bemis, Polly, House}}

6 : Houses in Idaho County, Idaho|Chinese-American culture in Idaho|Chinese-American history|Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho|Pre-statehood history of Idaho|National Register of Historic Places in Idaho County, Idaho

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