I moved to Downtown Sacramento 10 years ago, and was across from the Capitol, lived in Park Mansion by the Rose Garden. This beautiful Old Governors Mansion was not far from there. In 1975 my school class drove the 165 miles to visit the Capitol and also this House Museum for a tour, still the same. I hoped to see the Grand Piano in this video that I played 47 years ago. The guide asked our class if anybody played and shy me raised my hand, I sat down and then played the long opening and first verse to Scott Joplins 1902 The Entertainer. The piano is a percussion instrument, so I played this Ragtime song like it was meant to be played! Everyone clapped and I'll never forget the shocked looks on my classmates faces, I rocked that song better known as The Sting from the movie. It had filled the house with sound and I was smiling ear to ear because of that and the open mouths of everyone there...NO ONE KNEW I COULD PLAY, but as soon as I saw that Grand Piano, I knew I wanted to play that song....and I did.
Visited in 98/99 - SO beautiful. Even at my elementary age I could appreciate the decor, architecture and energy of the house. I think that was the first time I ever saw a clawed bathtub, and even just walking up the stairs felt luxurious. Very cool house, would love to walk through it again.
The house is a beauty. I saw it some 27 years ago. I hope the state uses it for a example of our past history. California needs to save its history !!!!
I went on a tour in the 90's,I remember the kitchen & the olden utencils,etc. that was there,I thought it was always a museum.I think it should continue on as a museum for the public to see....
I have lived in Sacramento for the past 37 years. This mansion should not be confused with the Stanford Mansion, now a state park, once the Governor's mansion, and a one-time home for girls. The Gallatin mansion has been recognized as the official Governor's mansion for decades. I have toured it many times and have been fortunate enough to have performed there and attended a wedding there. Ronald Reagan (well, Nancy) refused to live there thinking it was a fire trap. The Reagans moved to a mansion on 45th St. Ronald Reagan also commissioned a new mansion to be built on the bluffs overlooking the American River in the suburb of Carmichael. That mansion was never completed until sold to a private investor. The mansion still exists, and was designed in the California Mission Revival style. I was fortunate to visit the mansion, completed, and a private residence, a few years ago. I hope the official mansion will once again be opened as a museum, provided the next governor decides not to live there. It is spectacular! Please do a piece on the Leland Stanford mansion. Equally beautiful and with a fascinating history! Love the channel!
@@andrewgates8158 is a fire trap it's balloon construction and if a fire happened it would go up like a torch. When the Reagan's moved in it was also a main way out of town, interstate 80 ended coming in to Sacramento and you drove past the mansion going out of town, across the street in the 1960s was a 24 hour gas station., Previous governor's wives ran the room window air-conditioners 24-7 to combat the street noise. The Carmichael mansion was very nice, but I considered it more mid century modern
It needs to be a house museum! Including original furnishings, etc. Perhaps costumes of former governors & first ladies, portraits of California's governors with historical notes. A library of state documents (perhaps reproductions with originals saved in state archives under proper atmospheric conditions for their preservation), official photographs of historic events, personal memorabilia or diaries of governors & first ladies. In short, a museum of state gubernatorial history. A "coffee table book" for sale with photos of the mansion and its residents, with chapters detailing the architecture, decorative arts, residents, timelines of state history.
I also agree that the mansion should be kept as a house museum. It could have a gift shop so visitors could take home a little namesake. Just like the gorgeous mansions at Newport, it should be preserved for future generations to enjoy. This type of architecture with all the intricate details and mouldings will never come back again. It breaks my heart everytime I read about how so many historical mansions were destroyed.
I have been inside several times when it was a museum. I think it should be kept as a museum as there is so much history to be told about the house. I think people visiting California would enjoy going to see it.
Born and raised in SacTown and remember going on a field trip with my elementary school class to the mansion. I fell in love with it and had my parents take me on another tour along with my out-of-state grandparents. I have a paperback book about the mansion somewhere. I believe it needs to remain a museum that holds tours. It is such a beautiful piece of architecture and a reminder of Sacramento's history.
Growing up in Sac in the 80's this was a school field trip staple - I went in 5th grade. The mansion was beautiful!! It really needs to be open for tours again!! I remember the stories of the various ghosts that haunt it!
I did take a tour when it was a house museum in the early-2000s. It was very nice, and they still had some of the old furniture from the last governors to live there dating back to the 1960's. It was an interesting contrast to the antiques. Also, all the woodwork (door frames, crown molding, window frames, etc.) is painted white. It is very white inside. I thought Victorian homes had more color inside them. The tour did not include the 3rd floor, which we were told had a large open ballroom like space for parties or other functions.
I visited the mansion in the early eighties. A funny thing the tour guide pointed out was the feet on a claw foot tub. The nails on the claws were painted with purple nail polish by Jerry Brown' s teenage sister when his father was Governor. I hope they kept that during the refurbishment, but my hunch is they didn't.
I live right across the street from it. It's always sad seeing it empty. Although the large apartment buildings right next door would make it a bit awkward with everyone staring into your property, the pool area, etc.
I used to live across the street from this place. Ever since I was a kid, it’s been my favorite. There’s also a big gothic house on E or F street I’ve always wondered about. We have our urban legends about the owner, but it’s always sat vacant.
I toured the house in the early 1970s and vividly remember how impressive it was. I hope it becomes a museum once again to help tell the story of the state.
I am a Sacramento resident for the past 20 years. I live downtown around the corner from the governors mansion. It’s a beautiful home as well as the property grounds. It blends in well with all restored homes in the downtown area
a few comments above your's ..CauldronDawn CauldronDawn 1 month ago Unfortunately, my employer and I were there in April and happened to catch the caretaker. He said that they had stripped it of all of the furnishings which were put in storage and removed all of the original chandeliers throughout the mansion as they were turning it into a conference center.
Unfortunately, my employer and I were there in April and happened to catch the caretaker. He said that they had stripped it of all of the furnishings which were put in storage and removed all of the original chandeliers throughout the mansion as they were turning it into a conference center. Quite sad honestly because it is a beautiful home and I had hoped to tour the inside. Just another reason I am passionate about preserving Heidelberg Hall here in Schaefferstown. We have the only remaining second empire brown sandstone in the country, also with 30 rooms and 3 floors plus 2 towers. Would love to share more if interested.
I'm interested! I've never heard of Heidelberg Hall, although for all I know I may have walked by it a thousand times. Where is it at? I lived at 12th & G from 2015-17, 7th and Q from 2017-2018, and at Southside Park from 2018-20, and I walked and biked everywhere.
My mother worked for Gov. Warren for almost 10 years. She told me an interesting story of when she had "tea" in the mansion with Mrs. Warren. I have toured the mansion about 5 times in the 70's and 80's ......since the mansion is beautiful and historic. .....I would like to see it open to the public as a historic museum.
I do remember visiting the G.M. as a kid & distinctly remember the tour guide stating that there was a serious explosion in the kitchen in 1917. I am 64 now.
When I was a kid our family toured the governor's mansion. I don't remember exactly when but it must have been 1970 over a few years after that. I don't remember much, other than, it was a beautiful mansion. I would love them to reopen it.
i have visited the inside of the mansion with my friends when i was in elementary school. i always thought it was open to the public, but i guess it was only for special requests ? Though, my friends and i used to joke around thinking there was a ghost somewhere with us while exploring around. Highly recommend visiting this place !
When I was a kid it was a still a museum. I visited once on a school field trip and I remember climbing the stairs to go up into the cupola tower and was incredibly nervous by how steep and narrow the staircase in there was. The view from the round windows was excellent though
I saw it in the summer of 1987, when I was 10 years old. I remember the door hinges also had intricate carving as well, as the knobs, and they were much bigger than normal sized hinges. I thought that's how I want to have my hinges when I grow up. I thought everything can be creative! I also didn't like how the rooms were roped off and you couldn't go into the rooms really.
I would like the mansion to be a museum again. I find it a wonderful capsule of Victorian architecture. Sadly almost all the the original woodwork was painted white early in the 20th century to have an updated look. Previously Governor Jerry Brown and his sister Kathleen (former California State Treasurer) resided in the mansion while their father, (Edmund G."Pat" Brown) was governor. There were also two other sisters. Jeery lived in the mansion while studying for the California Bar Exam. Former California Governor and Supreme Court Justice also live in the mansion while serving as governor. Of course the California governors all live in the mansion until Nancy Reagan felt it did not meet her standards in 1967. I am fortunate to have visited the mansion while it was a museum previously. For Californians I see it as an important part of our state's history.
Sacramento was founded in 1854 by John Sutter Jr, son of owner of Sutter's Fort. The mansion has been a museum for years. I have been there many times. The furniture is there if it was purchased with State money. As many Governors have added to the collection it has become very time period oriented. The chairs in the music room (once a library) are from 1911 . Still look great. There are photographs of all first ladies on the dining room hallway walls. The house has rich history, and a guided tour is provided. It is worth the effort to see the Mansion while in Sacramento. As well, the Capitol is beautiful. Sutter's Fort is also a joy to visit. Trips to the Capitol are great for families, schools, and exchange students. There is a lot to see and do in the River City.
The State needs to make it museum again. I’m certain it’s already on the Historic Registry and there are probably a few old timers up there that could tell the tales. But we all know that California sometimes doesn’t do the right things🙄
No they don't! I live there...they're quite deluded Also see the comment directly above yours.. CauldronDawn 1 month ago Unfortunately, my employer and I were there in April and happened to catch the caretaker. He said that they had stripped it of all of the furnishings which were put in storage and removed all of the original chandeliers throughout the mansion as they were turning it into a conference center.
It should be returned to being a house museum showcasing the period of it's heyday. Perhaps some rooms could be contracted out for small meetings/ gatherings
Parks and Rec use to make the mansion into a haunted house for Halloween. For awhile it was used as a home for run away girls. They put on lunches to raise money for the home. I've been in the mansion many times as I worked nextdoor in the Resources building
At hof brau they have tons of old pictures, one of them states that a governor had to take a boat from the second story window to the capitol to be given the title of governor. This happened during one of the floods
I have an interesting tidbit of history and a question. My great-great grandfather was the Secretary of State for California in 1895, Albert Hart. My grandmother told me that she used to go roller-skating in the basement of the Old Governor's Mansion and always pointed to this place but it didn't become that until after 1903 and by then her grandfather had passed away. Also, she had a skating partner she would have, a boy named Ray Collins. Most folks would remember him as Lt. Tragg on the Perry Mason television series. So, if this wasn't the mansion she referred to, where was it?
@@lillypatience It's the same building as I pointed out BUT it's also stated that it wasn't bought by the state of California to be the Governor's Mansion until 1903 according to records. By then, my grandmother's grandfather had died and she was born in 1890.
We visited the Mansion on July 25, 2010. I have some 70 images in my Lightroom catalog from the interior and exterior. Some of the rooms upstairs were quite nice, e.g. the living room with the piano, red velvet chairs, purple drapes and red ornamental carpet. Dinning room had a large table, for 14 if memory serves. I think that most disappointing was the kitchen, neither historic nor contemporary, as if in 1950ties style and tired. A breakfast room with a table for 8 was covered in a beige wallpaper, not very inviting to my eyes. Atop several bedrooms, quite conventional. One of them was my favorite, with lots of windows, kept in bright colors, teal-green desk. I would love it as a home office. In a few rooms gowns of former 1st ladies were on display. For example Mrs Brown gown, and a wedding gown of Carolyn Knight. Screaming red/purple carpet in this room was not 'my cup of tea.' I think the tour was guided, because on several of my images I see the same guide. Generally, I can see why a well-off modern day family would prefer to relocate to a home of own choosing. This home should a be a museum.
They should make it a museum just like the Leland Stanford mansion in Sacramento. It’s open for tours and they still use the dining room and upstairs rooms for events for the capital.
Ditto to everyone's thoughts. House museum!. As a historical building of Californias history. I'm in Michigan, and went to the university of Michigan. The president's house of u if m is of the same age, though not the same style. But it is still used to this day as the president of the universitys house. So, I vote house museum!. It's state history!. Luv luv luv your channel, Ken!. Keep up the great work!! 👍😁
i was born & raised n california.... majority of my time was split between sacramento, fresno, & parts of the bay area, & the foothills n northern california... most of my time has been n sacramento, & i was able 2 visit it while it was a museum as a student multiple times... plus when my mother would take family when they visited from out of town (along with old sac, sutters fort& the capital n capital park) it was a beautiful place 2 step inside of,... i wonder how it looks now... since the renovations... probably nothing like it was unfortunately... they should do tours when there is no one livin n it... or possibly even a hostile....
I lived in Sacramento all my life. I visited the Governer's Mansion many times before Brown moved into it. It was a great piece of history that in my opinion should have stayed a museum. Now that no one is living in it I think it should be replaced to a museum again. Honestly, I don't think Brown should have ever moved into it in the first place. Sacramento has so many other beautiful homes he could have chosen. So many people have missed out on being able to view it since he moved into it. This is just my opinion.
This show begins two years before Statehood. I live nextdoor to the oldest cemetery in Sacramemto where so many people are buried who are historically important to California, it is on Broadway Avenue at 10th Street. If you visit the Governor's Mansion downtown, also visit The Crocker (Mamsion) Art Museum. Then I encourage you to visit the cemetery....but be sure to note the closing time and exit the cemetery before closing or you will be stuck overnight within it's high iron fencing with locked gates!
Always love your content! Any chance you can dig up the history of the castle that overlooks the California coastal town of Pacifica? I have heard it is a real European castle imported and reconstructed, but who knows?
We took a tour of the house when we first moved to Sacramento. The Tour was very short and not what I thought it would be. They only show you two rooms and the kitchen along with the living room. Just a boring tour in my thoughts. But the house is very beautiful and I hope they don't turn it into 20 unit apartment.
A public tour with charitable contributions to finance up keep and employees. I could be a a historical home and great tourist stop. This is definitely what should be done
I agree with other comments... finish the restoration, return all the furnishings and reopen as a Historic Museum, with gift shop and small Cafe, near the pool area. I was able to visit years ago with my mother, and remember all the beautiful architectural detailing as well as the "dated" kitchen! I also read a few years ago, the 4th floor ballroom was restored to its original Victorian decor. I really hope it is saved, re-opened and doesn't end up being stripped of pieces, then demolished. It would be a travesty our of state's history.
Why can’t it be both? Oklahomas mansion is used by governor and on one day a week open to the public. They also use it for formal functions and parties
Hello Ken I just recently started watching your TH-cam videos and subscribers also. Really am amazed at the amazing amount of research and detail you provide on these incredible and beautiful mansions especially the old American wealthy peoples mansions. So sad to see many end up demolished or fall into a state of ruin and neglect . Really love this historic review keep up the good work😊❤
I know- I find myself, while watching the videos, rooting for the houses to survive! I am a California resident, so this was interesting :) Glad it made it-
I was born and raised in Sacramento. I remember when Ronald Reagan, governor, lived in the mansion with his family for a short time, then decided to move into a more modern mansion.
I agree that it should be opened as a house museum, but I think anyone who thinks that the Governor's Mansion isn't good enough for them should maybe not run for office. With a father that had a military career, I lived in quite a few different states during Dad's military career. I have never heard of an elected governor not living in the Governor's mansion. In South Carolina, there was a governor who when he left office, stripped the Governor's mansion bare and furnished their beach house with what they took. He later became a US Senator. When he came back to visit the state legislature one time, one of them asked him if he'd forgotten something.
In 1973, the mansion had a sort of catered restaurant operating in the basement. My grandfather was a member of Gideons International. This is the organization famous for placing Bibles in hotel rooms, typically in the top drawer of a nightstand, which The Beatles made famous with their song, "Rocky Raccoon." They had Saturday Morning meetings there for a "prayer breakfast." It might have been on Sundays, I'm not sure now. I went with him once. Even though I am not a believer, as a Beatles fan and in memory of my grandfather, I keep a Gideon's Bible in the nightstand next to my bed. I think the mansion should become a top-end restaurant, requiring reservations. The dining room should be in the basement, which isn't a bad place at all, and upstairs made returned to a museum so that modern people can see what 19th-century style was about. The state should solicit one of these famous TV chefs to get involved; why not?
I went to g visit the mansion on a hot Fall day and the man responsible for the tour told me to come back another day because it was so hot & there were noisy workers inside. I never made it back & I am still so disappointed. I wish they would open it back up to the publish & cherish it for the historic treasure that it is.
Like the Cliffhouse, Truman’s home and now governors mansion in Sacramento I’ve been all three and governor Brown was the last to be in it as Reagan deemed it unsafe and when you tour it you do see that Plus it’s surrounded by busy street and nowadays it would be too unsafe. When I was in junior high and high school I don’t almost on a daily basis past governor Reagan’s house on 45th St. It was a lot easier to protect and the house Reagan started for the governors mansion my parents have been in and they said it was ugly and it was never used and sold. the governors mansion here was just so rickety and unsafe.
I've been to this mansion many times when it was open for touring. Why it isn't currently open for tours, I don't understand since no one is living in it now.
Just because the current governor bought a house elsewhere doesn't mean the next governor won't live here....unless the California governors are now all required to buy their own home...
Museum? A place where history, and architecture is taught by experts to students? A film set using miniature cameras? A place for displaying antique clothing? Just a few options for consideration for the leaders of Sacramento!
I think i took a tour of the governors mansion when I was a kid. Or it might’ve been the Stanford mansion. Or I might’ve toured both. I can’t remember. I was young.
The governor should be a man of the people, and one of the aspects of such is to live among them. It is unacceptable for a state to allow its governor to be sequestered in some wealthy gated community. He should live downtown, in the heart of its capitol city. If he finds it unsafe or unseemly, then he is well motivated to change that. As it was said about one of the great leaders in history, no man should be above other men, but instead, the first among equals.
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I moved to Downtown Sacramento 10 years ago, and was across from the Capitol, lived in Park Mansion by the Rose Garden. This beautiful Old Governors Mansion was not far from there. In 1975 my school class drove the 165 miles to visit the Capitol and also this House Museum for a tour, still the same. I hoped to see the Grand Piano in this video that I played 47 years ago. The guide asked our class if anybody played and shy me raised my hand, I sat down and then played the long opening and first verse to Scott Joplins 1902 The Entertainer. The piano is a percussion instrument, so I played this Ragtime song like it was meant to be played! Everyone clapped and I'll never forget the shocked looks on my classmates faces, I rocked that song better known as The Sting from the movie. It had filled the house with sound and I was smiling ear to ear because of that and the open mouths of everyone there...NO ONE KNEW I COULD PLAY, but as soon as I saw that Grand Piano, I knew I wanted to play that song....and I did.
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Visited in 98/99 - SO beautiful. Even at my elementary age I could appreciate the decor, architecture and energy of the house. I think that was the first time I ever saw a clawed bathtub, and even just walking up the stairs felt luxurious. Very cool house, would love to walk through it again.
The house is a beauty. I saw it some 27 years ago. I hope the state uses it for a example of our past history. California needs to save its history !!!!
I went on a tour when my Junior High school visited Sacramento in the 1970s...
I went on a tour in the 90's,I remember the kitchen & the olden utencils,etc. that was there,I thought it was always a museum.I think it should continue on as a museum for the public to see....
I have lived in Sacramento for the past 37 years. This mansion should not be confused with the Stanford Mansion, now a state park, once the Governor's mansion, and a one-time home for girls. The Gallatin mansion has been recognized as the official Governor's mansion for decades. I have toured it many times and have been fortunate enough to have performed there and attended a wedding there. Ronald Reagan (well, Nancy) refused to live there thinking it was a fire trap. The Reagans moved to a mansion on 45th St. Ronald Reagan also commissioned a new mansion to be built on the bluffs overlooking the American River in the suburb of Carmichael. That mansion was never completed until sold to a private investor. The mansion still exists, and was designed in the California Mission Revival style. I was fortunate to visit the mansion, completed, and a private residence, a few years ago. I hope the official mansion will once again be opened as a museum, provided the next governor decides not to live there. It is spectacular! Please do a piece on the Leland Stanford mansion. Equally beautiful and with a fascinating history! Love the channel!
The governor by law should be forced to live in it while in office.
@@andrewgates8158 is a fire trap it's balloon construction and if a fire happened it would go up like a torch. When the Reagan's moved in it was also a main way out of town, interstate 80 ended coming in to Sacramento and you drove past the mansion going out of town, across the street in the 1960s was a 24 hour gas station., Previous governor's wives ran the room window air-conditioners 24-7 to combat the street noise.
The Carmichael mansion was very nice, but I considered it more mid century modern
@@andrewgates8158 Why? I see no need for forcing a Governor to live anywhere. He or she should be able to live wherever they want.
It needs to be a house museum! Including original furnishings, etc. Perhaps costumes of former governors & first ladies, portraits of California's governors with historical notes. A library of state documents (perhaps reproductions with originals saved in state archives under proper atmospheric conditions for their preservation), official photographs of historic events, personal memorabilia or diaries of governors & first ladies. In short, a museum of state gubernatorial history. A "coffee table book" for sale with photos of the mansion and its residents, with chapters detailing the architecture, decorative arts, residents, timelines of state history.
I agree I was born in Sacramento and never been in side of it
It has been a museum, open to the public. Last governor to live there was Jerry Brown. It is currently under going structural renovations
We have other places downtown that’s a large city with museums that already hold these things you’ve mentioned.
@@jamieharrison-brown6283 yup it’s not as if it’s been empty for a hundred years or even 50 years.
@@benjaminnikiel4010 I grew up in SF. In junior high school I went on a field trip there...go figure...
I also agree that the mansion should be kept as a house museum. It could have a gift shop so visitors could take home a little namesake. Just like the gorgeous mansions at Newport, it should be preserved for future generations to enjoy. This type of architecture with all the intricate details and mouldings will never come back again. It breaks my heart everytime I read about how so many historical mansions were destroyed.
In San Francisco the Sutro Mansion went for the Sutro Tower.
I have been inside several times when it was a museum. I think it should be kept as a museum as there is so much history to be told about the house. I think people visiting California would enjoy going to see it.
I took a tour through the governors mansion back in 1991 it was gorgeous, it should be kept as a house museum
Born and raised in SacTown and remember going on a field trip with my elementary school class to the mansion. I fell in love with it and had my parents take me on another tour along with my out-of-state grandparents. I have a paperback book about the mansion somewhere. I believe it needs to remain a museum that holds tours. It is such a beautiful piece of architecture and a reminder of Sacramento's history.
Growing up in Sac in the 80's this was a school field trip staple - I went in 5th grade. The mansion was beautiful!! It really needs to be open for tours again!! I remember the stories of the various ghosts that haunt it!
Wow, I didn't realize it was closed off as a museum! I regret not going more than once!
It has a very beautiful architecture and should be treasured for all to see it. Hope they keep this historic place going for the public.
I did take a tour when it was a house museum in the early-2000s. It was very nice, and they still had some of the old furniture from the last governors to live there dating back to the 1960's. It was an interesting contrast to the antiques. Also, all the woodwork (door frames, crown molding, window frames, etc.) is painted white. It is very white inside. I thought Victorian homes had more color inside them. The tour did not include the 3rd floor, which we were told had a large open ballroom like space for parties or other functions.
I visited the mansion in the early eighties. A funny thing the tour guide pointed out was the feet on a claw foot tub. The nails on the claws were painted with purple nail polish by Jerry Brown' s teenage sister when his father was Governor. I hope they kept that during the refurbishment, but my hunch is they didn't.
I live right across the street from it. It's always sad seeing it empty. Although the large apartment buildings right next door would make it a bit awkward with everyone staring into your property, the pool area, etc.
I used to live across the street from this place. Ever since I was a kid, it’s been my favorite. There’s also a big gothic house on E or F street I’ve always wondered about. We have our urban legends about the owner, but it’s always sat vacant.
Correction: the house I'm most curious about is on G and 20th. I'm living 2 blocks away from the Governor's mansion now and it's still so beautiful.
hope it stays as a house museum. I remember going there with my classmates to tour it. lots of fun.
I toured the house in the early 1970s and vividly remember how impressive it was. I hope it becomes a museum once again to help tell the story of the state.
This is a beautiful mansion & definitely should be open to the public as a historic museum!!! Thanks for sharing this interesting video!!! 👍👍🙂
I live in midtown and always drive by the Governor's mansion. It needs to be a museum so the history can be shared to everyone!
which governor owns it?
@@lionheart93 None. The state owns it
Considering the security problems with the building it would be wise to use it in the same ceremonial manner as the Stanford Mansion museum.
Another great video. I hope they keep it as a house museum.
So do I. Maybe, turn it over to the State Parks Department that already runs the Leland Stanford mansion as a museum in Sacramento.
I am a Sacramento resident for the past 20 years. I live downtown around the corner from the governors mansion. It’s a beautiful home as well as the property grounds. It blends in well with all restored homes in the downtown area
a few comments above your's ..CauldronDawn
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Unfortunately, my employer and I were there in April and happened to catch the caretaker. He said that they had stripped it of all of the furnishings which were put in storage and removed all of the original chandeliers throughout the mansion as they were turning it into a conference center.
That millwork!!!
This might be the best house you've covered.
Needs to be open to public, do the right thing California!!
Such a beautiful Victorian gem like ths should be made available for public viewing!
I agree it should be a museum. It is beautiful and historic too.
I used to live 2 blocks from that mansion..I walked by it often and always wondered what the inside was like☺️
Museum & gift shop, & love the idea of showing the dress's in that period..
What a stunning mansion! Thank you for the history and images. 👍🏼
Unfortunately, my employer and I were there in April and happened to catch the caretaker. He said that they had stripped it of all of the furnishings which were put in storage and removed all of the original chandeliers throughout the mansion as they were turning it into a conference center. Quite sad honestly because it is a beautiful home and I had hoped to tour the inside. Just another reason I am passionate about preserving Heidelberg Hall here in Schaefferstown. We have the only remaining second empire brown sandstone in the country, also with 30 rooms and 3 floors plus 2 towers. Would love to share more if interested.
I'm interested! I've never heard of Heidelberg Hall, although for all I know I may have walked by it a thousand times. Where is it at? I lived at 12th & G from 2015-17, 7th and Q from 2017-2018, and at Southside Park from 2018-20, and I walked and biked everywhere.
very sad and shortsighted
Please keep this beautiful mansion as a museum.
We visited before the Browns moved in. They had an old phone book from my childhood (1967 I think) in the kitchen. It was fun to read familiar names.
Definitely a museum. GORGEOUS!!! Thanks Ken.
When I was little we went on field trips to th Governor's Mansion. I went to the old Washington Elementary down the street.
My mother worked for Gov. Warren for almost 10 years. She told me an interesting story of when she had "tea" in the mansion with Mrs. Warren. I have toured the mansion about 5 times in the 70's and 80's ......since the mansion is beautiful and historic. .....I would like to see it open to the public as a historic museum.
I do remember visiting the G.M. as a kid & distinctly remember the tour guide stating that there was a serious explosion in the kitchen in 1917. I am 64 now.
When I was a kid our family toured the governor's mansion. I don't remember exactly when but it must have been 1970 over a few years after that. I don't remember much, other than, it was a beautiful mansion. I would love them to reopen it.
wondrous architecture, the intricate moldings and motifs should be admired. a museum to be treasured.
i have visited the inside of the mansion with my friends when i was in elementary school. i always thought it was open to the public, but i guess it was only for special requests ? Though, my friends and i used to joke around thinking there was a ghost somewhere with us while exploring around. Highly recommend visiting this place !
When I was a kid it was a still a museum. I visited once on a school field trip and I remember climbing the stairs to go up into the cupola tower and was incredibly nervous by how steep and narrow the staircase in there was. The view from the round windows was excellent though
I saw it in the summer of 1987, when I was 10 years old. I remember the door hinges also had intricate carving as well, as the knobs, and they were much bigger than normal sized hinges. I thought that's how I want to have my hinges when I grow up. I thought everything can be creative! I also didn't like how the rooms were roped off and you couldn't go into the rooms really.
It needs to be MY home! Thanks for showing us this lovely house.
I would like the mansion to be a museum again. I find it a wonderful capsule of Victorian architecture. Sadly almost all the the original woodwork was painted white early in the 20th century to have an updated look. Previously Governor Jerry Brown and his sister Kathleen (former California State Treasurer) resided in the mansion while their father, (Edmund G."Pat" Brown) was governor. There were also two other sisters. Jeery lived in the mansion while studying for the California Bar Exam. Former California Governor and Supreme Court Justice also live in the mansion while serving as governor. Of course the California governors all live in the mansion until Nancy Reagan felt it did not meet her standards in 1967. I am fortunate to have visited the mansion while it was a museum previously. For Californians I see it as an important part of our state's history.
Sacramento was founded in 1854 by John Sutter Jr, son of owner of Sutter's Fort. The mansion has been a museum for years. I have been there many times. The furniture is there if it was purchased with State money. As many Governors have added to the collection it has become very time period oriented. The chairs in the music room (once a library) are from 1911 . Still look great. There are photographs of all first ladies on the dining room hallway walls. The house has rich history, and a guided tour is provided. It is worth the effort to see the Mansion while in Sacramento. As well, the Capitol is beautiful. Sutter's Fort is also a joy to visit. Trips to the Capitol are great for families, schools, and exchange students. There is a lot to see and do in the River City.
John Sutter killed many Indians. This is not something to be proud of. This land was taken for the rail line!!
The State needs to make it museum again. I’m certain it’s already on the Historic Registry and there are probably a few old timers up there that could tell the tales. But we all know that California sometimes doesn’t do the right things🙄
No they don't! I live there...they're quite deluded Also see the comment directly above yours..
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Unfortunately, my employer and I were there in April and happened to catch the caretaker. He said that they had stripped it of all of the furnishings which were put in storage and removed all of the original chandeliers throughout the mansion as they were turning it into a conference center.
Stunning!
It should be returned to being a house museum showcasing the period of it's heyday.
Perhaps some rooms could be contracted out for small meetings/ gatherings
Parks and Rec use to make the mansion into a haunted house for Halloween.
For awhile it was used as a home for run away girls. They put on lunches to raise money for the home.
I've been in the mansion many times as I worked nextdoor in the Resources building
What! I didn’t know it wasn’t a museum anymore 😧 I went to the museum when I was a kid!
At hof brau they have tons of old pictures, one of them states that a governor had to take a boat from the second story window to the capitol to be given the title of governor. This happened during one of the floods
Great memories of the Hof Braun! Yummy too!
Beautiful house, breath-taking must be saved
I have an interesting tidbit of history and a question. My great-great grandfather was the Secretary of State for California in 1895, Albert Hart. My grandmother told me that she used to go roller-skating in the basement of the Old Governor's Mansion and always pointed to this place but it didn't become that until after 1903 and by then her grandfather had passed away. Also, she had a skating partner she would have, a boy named Ray Collins. Most folks would remember him as Lt. Tragg on the Perry Mason television series. So, if this wasn't the mansion she referred to, where was it?
Tim Sacto commented that the Leland Stanford mansion was the old governor’s mansion. Maybe that’s where your grandma skated?
@@lillypatience It's the same building as I pointed out BUT it's also stated that it wasn't bought by the state of California to be the Governor's Mansion until 1903 according to records. By then, my grandmother's grandfather had died and she was born in 1890.
Might have been the The Leland Stanford Mansion which also served as Governors Mansion 1862-1863.
@@dp2677 My grandmother wasn't born until years later.
@@stephenbrinckerhoff3510 idk I'm just trying to answer your original question with location possibilities, as there were other governor's mansions.
A very beautiful home!
Beautiful
We visited the Mansion on July 25, 2010. I have some 70 images in my Lightroom catalog from the interior and exterior. Some of the rooms upstairs were quite nice, e.g. the living room with the piano, red velvet chairs, purple drapes and red ornamental carpet. Dinning room had a large table, for 14 if memory serves. I think that most disappointing was the kitchen, neither historic nor contemporary, as if in 1950ties style and tired. A breakfast room with a table for 8 was covered in a beige wallpaper, not very inviting to my eyes. Atop several bedrooms, quite conventional. One of them was my favorite, with lots of windows, kept in bright colors, teal-green desk. I would love it as a home office. In a few rooms gowns of former 1st ladies were on display. For example Mrs Brown gown, and a wedding gown of Carolyn Knight. Screaming red/purple carpet in this room was not 'my cup of tea.' I think the tour was guided, because on several of my images I see the same guide. Generally, I can see why a well-off modern day family would prefer to relocate to a home of own choosing. This home should a be a museum.
They should make it a museum just like the Leland Stanford mansion in Sacramento. It’s open for tours and they still use the dining room and upstairs rooms for events for the capital.
So beautiful! Please make it come alive!
Ditto to everyone's thoughts. House museum!. As a historical building of Californias history. I'm in Michigan, and went to the university of Michigan. The president's house of u if m is of the same age, though not the same style. But it is still used to this day as the president of the universitys house. So, I vote house museum!. It's state history!. Luv luv luv your channel, Ken!. Keep up the great work!! 👍😁
i was born & raised n california....
majority of my time was split between sacramento, fresno, & parts of the bay area, & the foothills n northern california...
most of my time has been n sacramento, & i was able 2 visit it while it was a museum as a student multiple times... plus when my mother would take family when they visited from out of town (along with old sac, sutters fort& the capital n capital park)
it was a beautiful place 2 step inside of,... i wonder how it looks now... since the renovations... probably nothing like it was unfortunately...
they should do tours when there is no one livin n it... or possibly even a hostile....
I lived in Sacramento all my life. I visited the Governer's Mansion many times before Brown moved into it. It was a great piece of history that in my opinion should have stayed a museum. Now that no one is living in it I think it should be replaced to a museum again. Honestly, I don't think Brown should have ever moved into it in the first place. Sacramento has so many other beautiful homes he could have chosen. So many people have missed out on being able to view it since he moved into it. This is just my opinion.
Best as a museum. History, art and architecture.
A museum would be a great use of the house.
This show begins two years before Statehood.
I live nextdoor to the oldest cemetery in Sacramemto where so many people are buried who are historically important to California, it is on Broadway Avenue at 10th Street.
If you visit the Governor's Mansion downtown, also visit The Crocker (Mamsion) Art Museum. Then I encourage you to visit the cemetery....but be sure to note the closing time and exit the cemetery before closing or you will be stuck overnight within it's high iron fencing with locked gates!
This needs to be a museum they can't destroy it
Always love your content! Any chance you can dig up the history of the castle that overlooks the California coastal town of Pacifica? I have heard it is a real European castle imported and reconstructed, but who knows?
We took a tour of the house when we first moved to Sacramento. The Tour was very short and not what I thought it would be. They only show you two rooms and the kitchen along with the living room. Just a boring tour in my thoughts. But the house is very beautiful and I hope they don't turn it into 20 unit apartment.
Thanks Ken - very informative ❤
I think it should be a house museum again.
The exterior of this mansion is gorgeous! To bad it sits unattended.
A public tour with charitable contributions to finance up keep and employees. I could be a a historical home and great tourist stop. This is definitely what should be done
That house is now restored beautifully and strong than before. And current governor is too picky.
It should be a museum.
Would love to see you cover the Carleton Island villa in NY!
I agree with other comments... finish the restoration, return all the furnishings and reopen as a Historic Museum, with gift shop and small Cafe, near the pool area.
I was able to visit years ago with my mother, and remember all the beautiful architectural detailing as well as the "dated" kitchen! I also read a few years ago, the 4th floor ballroom was restored to its original Victorian decor.
I really hope it is saved, re-opened and doesn't end up being stripped of pieces, then demolished. It would be a travesty our of state's history.
Why can’t it be both? Oklahomas mansion is used by governor and on one day a week open to the public. They also use it for formal functions and parties
OH! Additionally, the top floor was always roped off only making it more intriguing. Still wonder what is up there, damnit!
Should be used for a TV show
I can add a bit of color by noting that the Kennedy's JFK and Jackie once visited and stayed in the green guest room.
Beautiful staircases
thank you so much ken
Hello Ken I just recently started watching your TH-cam videos and subscribers also. Really am amazed at the amazing amount of research and detail you provide on these incredible and beautiful mansions especially the old American wealthy peoples mansions. So sad to see many end up demolished or fall into a state of ruin and neglect . Really love this historic review keep up the good work😊❤
I know- I find myself, while watching the videos, rooting for the houses to survive! I am a California resident, so this was interesting :) Glad it made it-
I live around the corner and have for 27 years
I was born and raised in Sacramento. I remember when Ronald Reagan, governor, lived in the mansion with his family for a short time, then decided to move into a more modern mansion.
I agree that it should be opened as a house museum, but I think anyone who thinks that the Governor's Mansion isn't good enough for them should maybe not run for office. With a father that had a military career, I lived in quite a few different states during Dad's military career. I have never heard of an elected governor not living in the Governor's mansion. In South Carolina, there was a governor who when he left office, stripped the Governor's mansion bare and furnished their beach house with what they took. He later became a US Senator. When he came back to visit the state legislature one time, one of them asked him if he'd forgotten something.
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In 1973, the mansion had a sort of catered restaurant operating in the basement. My grandfather was a member of Gideons International. This is the organization famous for placing Bibles in hotel rooms, typically in the top drawer of a nightstand, which The Beatles made famous with their song, "Rocky Raccoon." They had Saturday Morning meetings there for a "prayer breakfast." It might have been on Sundays, I'm not sure now. I went with him once. Even though I am not a believer, as a Beatles fan and in memory of my grandfather, I keep a Gideon's Bible in the nightstand next to my bed.
I think the mansion should become a top-end restaurant, requiring reservations. The dining room should be in the basement, which isn't a bad place at all, and upstairs made returned to a museum so that modern people can see what 19th-century style was about. The state should solicit one of these famous TV chefs to get involved; why not?
I went to g visit the mansion on a hot Fall day and the man responsible for the tour told me to come back another day because it was so hot & there were noisy workers inside. I never made it back & I am still so disappointed. I wish they would open it back up to the publish & cherish it for the historic treasure that it is.
Like the Cliffhouse, Truman’s home and now governors mansion in Sacramento I’ve been all three and governor Brown was the last to be in it as Reagan deemed it unsafe and when you tour it you do see that Plus it’s surrounded by busy street and nowadays it would be too unsafe. When I was in junior high and high school I don’t almost on a daily basis past governor Reagan’s house on 45th St. It was a lot easier to protect and the house Reagan started for the governors mansion my parents have been in and they said it was ugly and it was never used and sold. the governors mansion here was just so rickety and unsafe.
My hometown Sacramento
Beautiful old place, Nancy Regan refused to live in it, called it a fire trap. So much for respecting history.
It should be restored and given the same respect as the Stanford mansion - museum. Get rid of the white to begin with. It will be costly but worth it.
I think the mansion should be used as a home for a nice family with a lot of kids : )
I've been to this mansion many times when it was open for touring. Why it isn't currently open for tours, I don't understand since no one is living in it now.
I’d be glad to move in🤗
But you'd have to get elected Governor
Just because the current governor bought a house elsewhere doesn't mean the next governor won't live here....unless the California governors are now all required to buy their own home...
Museum? A place where history, and architecture is taught by experts to students? A film set using miniature cameras? A place for displaying antique clothing? Just a few options for consideration for the leaders of Sacramento!
I think i took a tour of the governors mansion when I was a kid. Or it might’ve been the Stanford mansion. Or I might’ve toured both. I can’t remember. I was young.
They should keep it as a museum and buy a new more modern house for the governor's mansion.
The governor should be a man of the people, and one of the aspects of such is to live among them. It is unacceptable for a state to allow its governor to be sequestered in some wealthy gated community. He should live downtown, in the heart of its capitol city. If he finds it unsafe or unseemly, then he is well motivated to change that.
As it was said about one of the great leaders in history, no man should be above other men, but instead, the first among equals.
I work 5 blocks from it and pass it on lunchtime walks and on my drive home.