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| Jack House and Gardens |
The Jack House is a unique piece of California's elegant and colorful past which will transport you back in time more than a century. Within the Jack Family, you'll meet some of the most prominent players in the drama of Central California history. Active in ranching, politics, travel, banking and land development, they were also friends and associates to the likes of railroad magnates Charles Crocker and C.P. Huntington, acclaimed statesman and pianist, Ignace Paderewski, and humorist Will Rogers.
The Jacks lived in this fine two-story Victorian house for over 90 years and much of the family's original furnishings, artwork, kitchen utensils, dishes and keepsakes are now on display for visitors. The family's library collection, alone, houses over 2000 volumes including several great literary treasures, a number of first editions and many of the Harvard Classics.
Guided tours of the Jack House interior and gardens are conducted by volunteer docents, specially trained in the history of the Jack Family and it's turn-of-the-century estate. The Wash House Gift Shop is open for browsing and souvenir shopping during regular tour hours.
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| 536 Marsh Street |
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| San Luis Obispo |
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| 93401-3955 |
Tours are every Sunday of each month from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. except for holidays (last tours start 30 minutes prior to closing time).
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| All tours are $2.00 per person; no charge for children. |
| (805) 781-7300 |
| http://www.slocity.org/parksandrecreation/historicjh.asp |
 | | Mrs. Roseann Schaefer, Co-op Member | This is a very geniuine house for the victorian eara and has beutiful funiture. One piece in perticular is their square piano/harpsicord that still playes well and adds an antmesphere when music is played that anyone can imagine really living in those times. We went at Chrristmas time and they have people in periode dress that tell you all about the family that lived their, their particular rooms and special funiture, library, and such. The kitchen was fasinating with an inbetween butlar bar than swivel to the ajoining dinning room with both sides having doors (that the food not get cold and the servents did not need to go back and forth to the kitchen. Also their was a butler elevetor for the upstairs to reieve meals. Some of the closets upstairs had a ajoining door between the rooms, sort of a secret passage idea. At Christmas time they had hot cider and cookies, nice for the kids - it was cold. Their where paintings that had people's eyes painted in such a way as to make it apear that where ever you stood in the room they where looking at you.
It is a charming place to go and allow your child to invision what that time periode was like and that their were real people that lived in homes such as these. |
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