Barron-Latham-Hopkins Gate Lodge
Barron-Latham-Hopkins Gate Lodge , also known as Gatehouse for short , is the oldest surviving building in Menlo Park .
On August 28, 1986, the property was listed as a listed building on the National Register of Historic Places . It is considered to be the last "gatehouse" in all of California.
history
William Eustace Barron had his residence built in Menlo Park in 1864. At that time, the gatehouse stood in the entrance area of a 280- acre property that included a residential building with around forty rooms and several outbuildings.
In 1871 the property became the property of Milton Slocum Latham for $ 75,000 and was renamed Thurlow Lodge . Latham had Thurlow Lodge outfitted by the Herter Brothers company and supplemented this interior, which is now distributed among various collections and museums, with numerous fountains that he had brought back from Europe, where he had been during the civil war. One of these wells has been preserved.
The next owner, Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins , the widow of Mark Hopkins , renamed the property Sherwood Hall and fundamentally changed the appearance of the building by painting it green instead of the original white. In 1888 she gave the property to her adoptive son Timothy Hopkins. This set up the Sunset Seed and Plant company on the property. He died in 1936.
With the exception of the Gate Lodge and the entrance gate, all of the buildings on the property were demolished in 1942. The property had become the property of Stanford University ; At this point, however, the buildings that were then demolished were no longer usable. Universal Studios bought part of the property to use as a film set.
The last remaining building was used as an officer's quarters during the Second World War. The gatehouse was rented out until 1968, when Menlo Park bought it. This purchase was very controversial, as many of those involved at the time were more in favor of demolishing the building. Mike Bedwell, then City Manager at Menlo Park, managed to save the building by staging a design exhibition in the gatehouse that also served as the renovation of the building. After he succeeded, the building was rented to nonprofits. In 1996, the building was restored by the Palo Alto Junior League , which is now the sole user of the Gatehouse.
The building now functions as a museum.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed May 20, 2016
Coordinates: 37 ° 27 '18.3 " N , 122 ° 10' 45.1" W.