Pardee Home

Pardee Home

Infobox_nrhp | name =Pardee House
nrhp_type =



caption =The Pardee Home in 1960
location= Oakland, California
lat_degrees = 37 | lat_minutes = 48 | lat_seconds = 17.96 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 122 | long_minutes = 16 | long_seconds = 35.04 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1869
architecture= Italianate
added = May 24, 1976
governing_body = Private
refnum=76000476 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2006-03-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
The Pardee Home is a house in Oakland, California that was home to three generations of the Pardee family. It is now a non-profit museum, showing over 100 years of the life of a prominent California family. The house, a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture, is a city landmark, a California Historical Landmark (#1027), and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The house was constructed in 1869 by California State Senator Enoch H. Pardee. His son, George Pardee, a Governor of California, also inhabited the house, inheriting it after his father's death. After George's death in 1941, it passed on to his two daughters, Madeline and Helen (the same name as her mother), who lived in the house until their deaths in 1980 and 1981 respectively.

The interior of the house is the main attraction of the museum. George's wife Helen collected knick-knacks from all over the world, including scrimshaw from Alaska, tobacco pipes from the Philippines, and a giant elk head. She was fond of giving house tours to show off her collection. All of the furnishings are original and the house looks as it did in 1981.

The original carriage house and stable are still standing and the entire complex is part of Oakland's Preservation Park Historic District. The house was to be demolished for the construction of Interstate 980, but conservationists were able to save the building. It opened as a public museum in 1991.

References

*cite news | title=Northern California History Found in Oakland Oasis | first=Abby | last=Cohn | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/24/EB90935.DTL | work=San Francisco Chronicle | date=November 24, 2000 | accessdate=2006-09-29

External links

* [http://www.pardeehome.org/ Pardee Home web site]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=ca/ca0000/ca0016/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Governor%20Pardee%20House,%20672%20Eleventh%20Street,%20Oakland,%20Alameda%20County,%20CA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:7:./temp/~ammem_wHWu:: Historic American Buildings Survey. Photographs, October 1960. Description and history, January 1966]


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