Golden Gate Villa

The Golden Gate Villa is a Queen Anne style house built in 1891 Santa Cruz, California. The house was designed by San Francisco architect Thomas J. Welsh for Major Frank McLaughlin, a mining engineer and California politician. Visitors to Golden Gate Villa included Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison. 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, who sold it to the present owner.[2]

Golden Gate Villa
Location924 3rd St., Santa Cruz, California
Coordinates36°58′2″N 122°1′18″W
Built1891
ArchitectWelsh, Thomas J.
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.75000482
Added to NRHPJuly 24, 1975[1]

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