J.E. Martin House

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The Queen Anne Victorian with a remarkable history...
 
"I have good memories of my grandmother..how she could play piano at the old house."  --John F. Nash, Jr. Bluefield boy, Mathematical genius, 1994 Nobel Prize Laureate, and subject of the bestselling biography and Academy Award winning film, A Beautiful Mind.
                                     
John F. Nash, Jr.  (1934)                       J.E. Martin
 
 
"Among John Nash's earliest memories is one in which, as a child of about two or three, he is listening to his maternal grandmother play the piano in the front parlor of the old Tazewell Street house, high on a breezy hill overlooking the city of Bluefield, West Virginia." A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar
 
For more information about John Nash, his inspiring story, the Martin family and their home read Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash,
 A Beautiful Mind.

 
Did you know...?
 

J.E. Martin began his career as a clerk in a country store, studied medicine at the University of Maryland, and became a prominent physician as well as Bluefield's sixth mayor.

 

The home was also the site of his medical office, and where he and his wife Emma raised their children - all seven of them.

 
His eldest daughter, Margaret Virginia Martin, was married in the front parlor to John Forbes Nash, Sr. on Sept. 6, 1924.

Restorations have begun!
 
Restorations began in 2001. The J.E. Martin House Project was founded in 2006.
 
 For news and updates please visit our blog and youtube channel -

 
 
NEWS

 

  • 2008 - The Martin house project was mentioned in a Bluefield Daily Telegraph article
  • 2006 - The project was founded and the front porch was restored
  • 2002 - John Nash, his wife Alicia, son and sister Martha Nash-Legg came to visit us while they were in Bluefield, WV!! They explored the house from top to bottom, reliving treasured childhood memories