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Alameda Sun- House Museum Now Open Twice Monthly
By Judith Lynch The Meyers House is the only vintage home in Alameda open to the public. For the past 16 years, the home has been open only one day each month, staffed by volunteers under the...
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Twenty-seven Years Aglow: How the Golden Gate Bridge Got Lit
How many of us remember walking on the Golden Gate Bridge when it was turned into a temporary mall as a celebration of its fiftieth birthday? That event was then memorialized at the Oakland Museum in...
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Profit From Down-sizing and Culling Your Treasures
If you are recovering from the loss of a loved one, moving to smaller quarters, or awash in clutter, the Alameda Museum has an expert estate and consignment sale team that can take care of everything...
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George Gunn Accepts Heritage Award for Meyers House and Garden
The elegant Saint Francis Yacht Club welcomed California Heritage Council (CHC) members Thursday evening June 12 for their Annual Awards Dinner. Alameda’s Meyers House and Garden received one of the...
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Raising Funds to Save Carriage House
At 115 years old, the carriage house at the Myers House & Garden on Alameda Avenue is showing its age. The makeup applied to the outside of the structure and its new roof hides the fact that the...
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Flag Raising at the Meyers House
Celebrate Sunday August 17, 2-3:30PM at the historic Meyers House and Garden, 2021 Alameda Avenue, where a rejuvenated 19th century flagpole will be inaugurated and local Boy Scouts will be honored....
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Flag Raising Ceremony Photos
Scouts from Troop 78 raised a historic flag in the garden of the Meyers House Museum. The ceremony was a celebration of the original 1897 flagpole, restored by Alameda Museum volunteer Carl Ramos and...
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Alameda: Troop 78 Boy Scouts honored at Meyers House
ALAMEDA — The Meyers House hosted a flag-raising ceremony Aug. 17 to honor the Boy Scouts from Troop 78 and adult volunteers for removing a huge water storage tank on the property and restoring a...
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Shaken, Not Stirred
How did you fare during the August 24 quake that shook us awake at 3:30 that morning? Did you ever wonder what it was like to be in largest earthquake ever unleashed by the Hayward Fault? Author and...
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Museum Archive Inspires Local Author
Julia Park Tracey reading The Great Gatsby. Credit: Ed Jay Alamedan Julia Park Tracey will hold a launch party in the Art Gallery of the Museum Friday, January 9, 2015, 7:00- 8:30 pm, for her new...
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The Year in Review
As a part of our Annual Luncheon yesterday, Board member Jim Smallman created a presentation highlighting some of the accomplishments, achievements and advances at both the Meyers House and the...
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2015 Museum Luncheon
By all accounts, the 2015 Museum Luncheon was a huge success. More people attended this year than ever before, the newest board members were sworn in by Mayor Trish Spencer, and bidding on the silent...
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Railroaders Once Called East End Home
At least eighteen railroad men lived in the neighborhood that surrounded South Pacific Coast Railroad’s High Street Station. They included six brakemen. Charles Deal and his stepson Edward Hein both...
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City Council Report 2015
Board President Dennis Evanosky presented the Museum’s Annual Report to the Alameda City Council on Thursday evening, July 16, 2015. In his 15 minute report, Dennis covered our progress over the past...
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Alameda Legacy Home Tour 2015
The Alameda Legacy Home Tour is coming up, Sunday, September 27, 2015 from 11AM to 5PM. It’s a self-guided tour featuring five period homes and a church. Participants will partake of exterior charms,...
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Meyers Carriage House Rededicated
Nearly forty contributors and supporters gathered to celebrate the newly renovated Carriage House in the Gardens of the Meyers House this past Sunday afternoon. Led by Board President (and Alameda Sun...
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Carriage House Progress
Museum Director Jim Smallman was kind enough to create this brief presentation about the renovation of the Carriage House at the Meyers House and Garden. With many photos, the presentation charts the...
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William Worthington Chipman – Alameda’s co-founder
William Worthington Chipman was born in 1820 in Vermont and grew up in Ohio, where he served as a school principal and studied law. In 1850, he came to San Francisco (via Panama) and set up a “Reading...
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We Had a Great 2016 Docent Mixer!
On Sunday January 31st, the docents of the Alameda Museum met for a training and luncheon at the museum with the Board of Directors. The luncheon, catered by Juanita’s on Park Street, was a wonderful...
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The Year in Review
As a part of our Annual Luncheon yesterday, Board member Jim Smallman created a presentation highlighting some of the accomplishments, achievements and advances at both the Meyers House and the Alameda...
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