Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 00000856 Added to NRHP 8 August 2000 | Built 1897 (1897) Opened 1897 | |
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Location 132 Central Ave., Salinas, California Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar National Steinbeck Center, Tatum's Garden, Toro Park, Gabilan Range, First Mayor's House | ||
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. The National Steinbeck Center is located two blocks away at 1 Main Street.
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