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Thomas Whaley Museum Review
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Thomas Whaley Museum
Museums / Galleries, Old Town
Fodor's Review:
Thomas Whaley was a New York entrepreneur who came to California during the gold rush. He wanted to provide his East Coast wife all the comforts of home, so in 1857 he had Southern California's first two-story brick structure built. The house, which served as the county courthouse and government seat during the 1870s, stands in strong contrast to the Spanish-style adobe residences that surround the nearby historic plaza and marks an early stage of San Diego's "Americanization."
A garden out back includes many varieties of Old Garden roses from before 1867, when roses were first hybridized. The place is perhaps most famed, however, for the ghosts that are said to inhabit it.
INFO
- Address: 2476 San Diego Ave., Old Town, San Diego, CA
- Phone: 619/297-7511
- Web site
- Cost: $6
- Open: Sept.-May, Mon.-Tues. 10-5, Thurs.-Sun. 10-10; June-Aug. 10-10
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