Kelley House Museum, Mendocino CA

Category & Type :

Museums

Location :

45007 Albion Street , Mendocino CA

Phone :

707-937-5791

Website :

http://www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/

Information about Kelley House Museum...

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The Kelley House Museum is an historic house museum in the heart of Mendocino, California, a picturesque town of 1,000 people. The home was built in 1861 by William Kelly (sp), one of Mendocino’s founding fathers, and now contains 19th Century furniture. The ocean-view home sits on an acre of gardens, with a pond and three resident geese. William had the pond built and stocked so that the neighborhood children could fish.

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We offer Walking Tours of the Mendocino National Historic Preservation District. Tours leave from the Kelley House Museum every Saturday at 11 am, and last for an hour and a half.Join us on Sunday, October 23, at 3 pm for a presentation from Judy and Jim Tarbell, owners of Black Bear Press from 1981-1999. The Tarbell’s published the Ridge Review Magazine from 1981-1995. Light refreshment will be served Cost $5 members; $7 non-membersStep back in time to 1861 and enjoy an old-fashioned housewarming at William and Eliza Kelly’s home on Albion Street (aka Kelley House Museum). We hope you will stop by to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Kelly on their lovely new home, water tower, outhouse and pond located in the center of our booming mill town, Mendocino City (previously known as Meiggsville). Mr. Kelly will pour you a tasty glass of Mendocino Apple Cider. Mrs. Kelly will be serving her famous apple cake, along with traditional snacks of popcorn balls and peanuts.

Refreshments and Kelly family characters are courtesy of the Mendocino Study Club. Earl Ward, husband of Study Club President Margaret Ward, will portray William, and member Sue Ellington will be Eliza. Join us for a step back in time in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Kelley HouseThe Kelley House Museum is an ocean-view, historic house museum in the heart of the historic district of Mendocino, California, a picturesque town of 1,000 people.

The Kelley House Museum’s mission is to collect, preserve and share the rich history of the Mendocino Coast, and it serves its mission in two ways. Founded in 1972, it now houses the coast’s only museum-quality storage and research facility. The facility is open to visitors four days a week, and provides Web access to thousands of artifacts, photographs and documents. Genealogy and photograph requests come from all parts of the world.

The Kelley House Museum was the home of William Kelly (sp), an influential businessman in early Mendocino. Kelly as a key player in the Mendocino Lumber Company in the late 1800s, and he built this house for his family in 1861. William had the pond built and stocked so that the neighborhood children could fish.

The ocean-view home sits on an acre of gardens, with a pond and three resident geese, and serves as a historic house museum.  The house, pond and water tower are listed as Category I structures within the guidelines of the Mendocino Historical Review District. The Museum is also the caretaker of façade easements for seven other historic buildings within the district.

The Alcazar
Alcazar in Cuffey’s Cove, Greenwood; Point Arena in background. A wooden steam schooner built in 1887 by Alex Hay of San Francisco, owned and operated by the Lorenzo E. White Lumber Company. The Alcazar wrecked June 10, 1907, without the loss of life, on Needle Rock on the north coast of Mendocino.The Alliance

The Alliance beached at Caspar, April 5, 1903. She struck a rock off Point Gorda and managed to reach Caspar. After temporary repairs were made, she was pulled into the water again and returned to San Francisco under her own steam.

Big River
Boom Flat, Big River, California. A Perley Maxwell photograph of two people in a small rowboat at low tide on Big River.

The J.M. Griffith
J. M. Griffith at the mouth of Big River in Mendocino. The Griffith was a barkentine boat built in 1882 that plied her trade between Puget Sound and San Diego.  Just prior to WWI, she loaded frequently at Noyo Harbor for Hawaii or Australia.

Lansing Street in Mendocino
Hand-colored postcard of Lansing Street from the roof of the Chinese Wash House. Buildings in photograph from left to right: Kelley Store (1871) and Kelley Fashion Stable (1872), Kellieowen Hall, Masonic Temple (1872) and Catholic Church and Loggers with Huge Redwood
Loggers standing on giant redwood with undercut. Stamped on back:  “A.W. Gilfillan, Traveling

C. O. Packard and Friends
In front of the Maxwell-Jarvis house, December 25, 1906, by Perley Maxwell. C. O. (Charles Oscar) Packard, center, from left to right:Dr. F. C. Peirsol, Henry Jarvis, Albert Brown, Packard sons, Harold and Willard and Dr. William McCornack, and unidentified man in foreground.The historic house museum is furnished with period furniture from the late 1800s. The three upstairs bedrooms are furnished with items that belonged to the Kelly family or came from the period in which they lived in the house.
Artifacts and interpretive materials from the shipwreck of the Frolic are on permanent exhibit.