After more than three decades of running Golden City Brewery , Janine Sturdavant is ready to retire. She started the brewery with her husband, Charlie, a fellow geologist, in 1993. Now Golden City, along with the family's home — the historic Kelly Mansion that's also on the 0.3-acre property — is listed for sale for $5.5 million .

“A couple of years ago, we started to look around, seeing where we wanted to be when we retired and thinking more seriously about it,” says Sturdavant. “We’ve been thinking about it, and it was time."

The Sturdavants are planning to retire to Texas Hill Country, where they have a lot of friends. “It’s a beautiful place,” she says.

The mansion was built by Dr. James Kelly in 1879 for $8,000 (about $250,000 in today’s money); today, it is part of Golden's 1

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