Location Name - The Stansbury Home - Victorian Home Museum
307 West 5th Street
Chico 95926

County: Butte
Region: *Northern
Location ID: 1789

Phone 1:(626) 722-7608

Website:
https://www.stansburyhome.org/ (Website)
https://www.downtownchico.com/museums_stansbury-home-279.htm (Downtown Chico)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iO3JRuIEX8&t=3s (YouTube video of The Stansbury Home)

Email: [email protected]

 
Styles: Italianate , Victorian / Queen Anne

Categories:
CITIES, TOWNS & PUBLIC SPACES - *
CITIES, TOWNS & PUBLIC SPACES - Historic Districts
COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES - *
COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES - Event Venues / Conference / Ballrooms / Banquets / Weddings
MUSEUMS - *
MUSEUMS - Cultural History
HOUSES - *
HOUSES - Single Homes
HOUSES - Neighborhoods

Tags/Keywords: Suburban, Historic Buildings

Description:
The Stansbury Home is considered by the state as the most preserved historic structure in California. It has never been restored from another use. It is maintained as the Stansbury family last left it. Chico’s historic Stansbury Home, located at the southwest corner of Fifth and Salem streets, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Built in 1883, the house was designed by Sacramento architect, A.A. Cook, and is a classic example of Italianate Victorian—a style patterned after the sturdy square manor houses of the Italian countryside. The exterior of the house incorporates beautifully molded and arched windows accented with carved rosettes at their peak, angled bay windows flanked by colonettes; entrance porches rippled with slender fluted columns; carved balustrades and decorated pediments, all topped by bracketed cornices. Centered on the roof is a low decorative wrought iron fence accentuated by a fleur-de-lis design. The Stansbury Home is a Victorian home built by Dr. Oscar Stansbury in 1883. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and in 1991 was listed as supporting the South Campus Historic District. While the home is now the property of the City of Chico, the Stansbury Home Preservation Association helps to fund and maintain the 19th-century historic residence. Visit us today to experience the beauty of the home.

General Notes:
updated by: [Carrillo, Elizabeth] 3/5/2025 2:19:07 PM

Usage Restriction:
1883 Italianate.

Jurisdictions::
BUTTE COUNTY FILM OFFICE, Chico

Within 30-Mile Zone: N

State Property: No

Closed/Vacant: No

GPS Source:
Google Maps (interactive), x coordinate: 39.7269183, y coordinate: -121.8399620

Permit: 2

Building Materials: Wood

Contacts:
Vaught, Dustin *
Chair, Butte County Film Commission
[email protected]
https://www.filmbuttecounty.com/

Corbin, Dino
President, Stansbury Home Preservation Assoc.
[email protected]

* Key Contact


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