Members of the Albert Brown Family posing for a group portrait, on the steps of the Albert Brown house, on the occasion of the 50th wedding anniversary of Albert and Georgiana Brown, 1925. Bottom left up and over down right: Howard Brown, Annabelle Brown Gregory, Albert Brown, Georgiana Paynter Brown, Blanche Brown Blair, Florence Brown Kuhn, Viola Brown, Allie Brown. (Gift of Sharri Knight, Albert [...]
The Steamer Point Arena Loading Under an Apron Chute, date unknown. (Gift of Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 20, 1888 - The steamer Point Arena, captained by Sewell F. Graves, left Vallejo Street Wharf in San Francisco headed to Point Arena, Cuffey’s Cove, Mendocino, and Fort Bragg. She was a great favorite of the traveling public, and she had all [...]
The 1919 Mendocino High School student body. Top row L - R: Frank Madera, Mr. Gauthier, Mr. Woods, Ruel Stickney, Leslie Larsen, Glenn Koskela, Jack Ross. Next row: Mabel Clark, Marian Arendt, Clarence Stout, Earl Cummings, Claude Stout, Lester Olson. Next row: Clara Grub, Harold Hansen, Lynn West, Warren Daniels, Barton Coombs, Arthur Lemos, Bill Johnson. Next row: Spencer Handlin, Geneva Daniels, Mamie Gordon, Helen [...]
A very foreshortened view looking south down Lansing Street across Mendocino Bay, c. 1930. The Masonic Hall with its rooftop statuary is on the right. In the distance, Highway 1 winds its way south past the water tower and barns belonging to the Kent Ranch (later Spring Ranch). Utility poles line both sides of the unpaved roadway, which has vegetation growing along its sides. Other buildings [...]
In honor of the 160th anniversary of the Kelley House, a permanent exhibit showcasing the home’s original inhabitants opened in December 2021 at the museum. Rediscover the Kelley Family: parents William and Eliza, and their four children, Daisy, Russell, Elise, and Otis, along with their extended family. A beautiful, hand-embellished family tree helps visitors understand their relationships to each other. Among the exhibit’s highlights is a [...]
In honor of the 160th anniversary of the Kelley House, a new permanent exhibit showcasing the home’s original inhabitants opens this December at the museum. Rediscover the Kelley Family: parents William and Eliza, and their four children, Daisy, Russell, Elise, and Otis, along with their extended family. A beautiful, hand-embellished family tree helps visitors understand their relationships to each other. Among the exhibit’s highlights is a [...]
Fishing Party Posing with Catch, c.1950. Joe "Shine" Silva, Sam Munn, an unidentified woman, and Joe Luce Lenhares posing with a large King salmon fish in front of a 1950 Buick Super Dyna-Flow sedan on Ukiah Street in Mendocino. They are standing west of the Beacon building, with (L-R) the C. O. Packard House, the Maxwell-Jarvis House, and the Albert Brown House on Little Lake Street [...]
Mendocino County produced many memorable women, but one proudly declared her occupation as “Capitalist.” This was Elise Drexler, daughter of Mendocino coast pioneers William and Eliza Kelley. A side portrait of the Kelley’s second daughter, Elise, in her twenties. Born in 1866, she was educated at the public schools here, and then at a girls’ private school, and later went to Mills College in [...]
by Wilma Tucker Until the 1870s the Mendocino coast was isolated except for the schooners that sailed between San Francisco and Eureka. Travel inland was on foot or by horseback over narrow trails along the ridges. The Coastline Mendocino to Cloverdale Stage, operated by Getz and Castro, in front of Carlson's City Hotel on Main Street, c. 1880. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) [...]
On this day in Mendocino history… Antone Fernandez Luiz, c. 1880. Antone Fernandez Luiz in regalia of the Portuguese Union of the State of California (UPEC). From a collection of photographs belonging to Antone F. and Annie Lazarus Luiz. (Ira C. Perry (photographer), Gift of Juanita Luiz Craig, Juanita Luiz Craig Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 14, 1932 - Antone Fernandez Luiz died at [...]