Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House

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name = Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House
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location= 376 Greenwood Beach Road
Tiburon, California
lat_degrees = 37
lat_minutes = 53
lat_seconds = 39
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 122
long_minutes = 29
long_seconds = 46
long_direction = W
locmapin = California
area =
built = 1876
architect=
architecture= Second Empire
added = November 10, 2000
governing_body = Private
refnum=00001268cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House is a Victorian house located in Tiburon, California. Built in 1876, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

The Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House on Richardson Bay in Tiburon, California, was the home of Benjamin Lyford, a former soldier in the Union Army who was born in New Hampshire, raised in Cabot, Vermont, and who emigrated to San Francisco after the American Civil War to practice medicine, and his wife Hilarita nee Reed, the daughter of John Reed, an Irish immigrant who was granted the 'Rancho Corda Madera del Presidio,' literally the place where wood is cut for the Presidio, and today comprising the peninsula incorporating Tiburon, Belvedere and much of southern Marin County. [ [http://www.millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-early-mill-valley.html History of Early Mill Valley, Mill Valley Historical Society] ] The Benjamin Lyford House was originally located at Strawberry Point, but was moved in 1957 when threatened with demolition and is now co-owned by the National Audubon Society.cite news |author=Maura Thurmon |title=Tiburon Victorian set to unveil makeover |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/16/NBGRH6247O1.DTL |work=The San Francisco Chronicle |date=April 16 2004 |accessdate=2008-04-07]

The Benjamin Lyford House is part of the Richardson Bay Audbon Center and Sanctuary. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. In December 2002 the house was damaged, when a tree crashed through the roof. The house was closed for a year of restoration and was reopened in 2004.

References

External links

* [http://www.tiburonaudubon.org/ Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary]
*Nrhp source1|CA|Marin|state