[2] The Nesbitt house is a two-story, wood-frame building, with a single-story north wing.

It has a foundation of railroad ties and a redwood siding with a pitch gable roof covered with composition shingles.

It was the home of Sheriff William Joseph Nesbitt and Frances Camilla Dunham who lived in the house from 1881 to 1933.

He married Frances Camilla Dunham on September 16, 1881, in Salinas and moved to the house on 66 Capitol Street.

[2] In 1916, Nesbitt worked on a case that got national attention, about Helen Wood Smith, a Carmel-by-the-Sea artist.