Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House
The Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House is a Second Empire- style house in Marin County , California, built in 1876 . It is now on the edge of Richardson Bay , a bird sanctuary classified as an Important Bird Area and is used by the National Audubon Society , a non-profit association .
history
Lyford House is named after its first owners Benjamin Lyford (1841–1906), a doctor, and Hilarita Lyford, daughter of John Reed , the first landowner in what is now Marin County. It originally stood on a dairy farm on the Strawberry peninsula and, threatened with demolition, was moved to its present location in Tiburon in 1957 with the help of a barge .
Since 1961, Lyford House has been owned by the National Audubon Society , a non-profit professional society for the protection of birds. On November 10, 2000, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places , the official list of cultural monuments in the United States , as a monument . After the house was damaged by a falling tree in December 2002, it was extensively renovated and reopened in April 2004.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed May 20, 2016
- ↑ Maura Thurman: Tiburon Victorian set to unveil makeover , in: San Francisco Chronicle of April 16, 2004. Last accessed on August 18, 2013.
Coordinates: 37 ° 53 ′ 39 " N , 122 ° 29 ′ 50" W.