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Overlooking the ocean, the Kelley House Museum was built for the affluent Canadian Kelley family that settled in Mendocino at the end of the 19th century. Restored and converted into a museum, it has a mission to preserve local history and guard the precious cultural heritage and architecture of the Mendocino coast. The Kelley House Museum is richly furnished with period pieces from the late 1800s, many of which belonged to the Kelley family.
Besides the house itself, the museum has several other permanent exhibits: A number of artifacts and materials from the shipwreck of the Baltimore Clipper Frolic, which sank in 1850 near Point Cabrillo Light Station; the “Then and Now” exhibit, which shows photos of the same spot in Mendocino photographed about 100 years apart; and a Native Americans Exhibit about the Pomo people, who lived on the Mendocino Coast thousands of years before Europeans settled it in 1850.
b>Address: Kelley House Museum, 45007 Albion St, Mendocino, CA 95460, Phone: 707-937-5791
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