John Steinbeck House (Salinas, California)
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| Location | 132 Central Ave., Salinas, California |
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| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1897 |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 00000856[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 8, 2000 |
John Steinbeck House is a historic house restaurant and house museum at 132 Central Avenue in Salinas, California. The house was the boyhood home to the author John Steinbeck.
Steinbeck's boyhood home is a turreted Victorian building in downtown Salinas, which has been preserved and restored by the Valley Guild, a nonprofit organization.The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Fixed menu lunches are served Monday through Saturday, and the house is open for tours during the summer on Sunday afternoons.[2] The National Steinbeck Center is located two blocks away at 1 Main Street.
See also
- John Steinbeck House (Monte Sereno, California), another Steinbeck home on the NRHP
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John Steinbeck's Home and Birthplace, Information Point. Retrieved 2007.
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