The Kelley House Museum is a

house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that is preserved as a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a variety of ...

Mendocino, California Mendocino (Spanish language, Spanish for "of Antonio de Mendoza, Mendoza") is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California, United States. The name comes from Cape Mendocino to the north, named b ...

. 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" 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. It has "the only museum-quality storage and research facility open to visitors on the Mendocino California Coast." 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 Henry Meiggs (July 7, 1811 – September 30, 1877), known in Chile and Peru as Enrique Meiggs, was an American businessman. Business career Lumber Born on Jul 7, 1811, in Boston, Meiggs came to New York City in 1835 and began a lumber business ...

sparked the development of the timber industry in the area.. Mendocino itself was founded in 1852 as a logging community for what became the

Mendocino Lumber Company Mendocino Lumber Company operated a sawmill on Big River near the town of Mendocino, California. The sawmill began operation in 1853 as the Redwood Lumber Manufacturing Company, and changed ownership several times before cutting its final logs in ...

, and was originally named Meiggsville after Meiggs.

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Kelley House Museum
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