Kelley House Museum
Location45007 Albion Street, Mendocino, California
Coordinates39°18′20″N 123°47′57″W / 39.305509°N 123.799119°W / 39.305509; -123.799119
Websitewww.kelleyhousemuseum.org

The Kelley House Museum is a house museum in Mendocino, California. It is located at 45007 Albion Street in Mendocino.

Founded in 1973 with a mission "to collect, preserve, protect and share the rich history of the Mendocino Coast"[1] it interprets Mendocino's logging and shipping industries together with displaying typical domestic life in the 1800s.

It is the starting point of a popular walking tour of Mendocino.[2][3]

It has "the only museum-quality storage and research facility open to visitors on the Mendocino California Coast."[1]

It has a cannon salvaged by sport divers in the 1960s, from the ship Frolic which was wrecked in 1850 a few miles north of Mendocino, at Point Cabrillo. Investigation of the wreck by agents of Henry Meiggs sparked the development of the timber industry in the area.[4] Mendocino itself was founded in 1852 as a logging community for what became the Mendocino Lumber Company, and was originally named Meiggsville after Meiggs.

References

  1. 1 2 "Kelley House Museum". Kelley House Museum. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Walking Tours: Discover the Charm and History of Mendocino". Kelley House Museum.
  3. ↑ "Kelley House Museum". Tripadvisor.
  4. ↑ Rogerson, Bruce; Rorby, Ginny; Kimbrell, Jim (Spring 2009), "Point Cabrillo", Mendocino Historical Review, Kelley House Museum, XXIII.
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