Allen Apartments/Houghton-Donner House (San Jose, California)

USA / California / Fruitdale / San Jose, California / East St. John Street, 156
 house, landmark, place with historical importance, apartment building, historical layer / disappeared object
156 E St John St
San Jose, CA 95112

The Houghton-Donner house, also known as the Allen Apartments in a later incarnation, was a large Victorian Italianate style structure built in 1881 which had been home to two historically important San Joseans: early mayor Sherman Houghton and his wife, Donner Party survivor Eliza Donner Houghton, who wrote some of the earliest and most authoritative accounts of the tragic 1840s wagon train party.

The house burned on July 19, 2007 after a vagrant broke into the house and started a fire.

www.preservation.org/Donner/Donner_fire.html
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_party
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Coordinates:   37°20'20"N   121°53'17"W
This article was last modified 9 years ago