The Golden Gate Villa is a Queen Anne style house built in 1891 in

Santa Cruz, California Santa Cruz ( Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 62,956. Situated on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz is a po ...

. The house was designed by

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...

architect Thomas J. Welsh for Major Frank McLaughlin, a mining engineer and

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

politician. Visitors to Golden Gate Villa included

Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...

and

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventi ...

. In the 1940s the house was operated as a restaurant, the Palais Monte Carlo. After passing through several owners, in 1963 the house was purchased by seafood magnate William W. Durney and his screenwriter wife

Dorothy Kingsley Dorothy Kingsley (October 14, 1909 – September 26, 1997) was an American screenwriter, who worked extensively in film, radio and television. Biography Born in New York City, Kingsley was the daughter of newspaperman and press agent Walter J. ...

, who sold it to the present owner. On July 24, 1975, the Golden Gate Villa was added to the United States

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

References

External links

The Golden Gate Villa by Susan Dormanen
Santa Cruz, California History of Santa Cruz County, California History of the Monterey Bay Area Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Cruz County, California Houses completed in 1891 Houses in Santa Cruz County, California Queen Anne architecture in California National Register of Historic Places in Santa Cruz County, California {{SantaCruzCountyCA-NRHP-stub