GLASS HOUSE & FOREST HOME FARMS

Less than three miles from my father's home in San Ramon is a restored Victorian, the David & Eliza Glass House, which is open for tours the second Saturday of each month. It is part of Forest Home Farms which is run by the City of San Ramon. Lou & I took the tour this past Saturday.


The exterior of the David & Eliza Glass House.

Here is the website history of the home: In 1877, David Glass, who was prosperous but never wealthy, opted to build a home with an imposing exterior design. The style of architecture was Italianate, a sophisticated new fashion that had been introduced in the Bay Area during the mid-1860's by architects who migrated to San Francisco from the East Coast. An impressive two story, nine room structure, prominently situated in San Ramon between Dublin and Walnut Creek, the Glass house would have stood in proud contrast with the modest homes of most of its neighbors in the small, rural community that existed in the San Ramon of the 1870's.

The formal parlor where the Glass family met their guests.

 

The dining room where the family of nine had their meals.

 

They have done a wonderful job restoring the home & furnishing the interior.

 

Many of the artifacts are not original to the home but are authentic to the era.

  

Forest Home Farms has several small museums, a garden & live farm animals as well as the Travis & Ruth Boone House along with the Glass House which was moved to the current location from 1000 feet down the road.

The Boone House which had been divided into apartments is now office & meeting space.

Some of the beautiful wisteria in bloom on the Boone House arbor.



This was a working farm that butchered its own meat in the smokehouse.



I was impressed with the number of artifacts acquired by the farm.

I liked this display with the old Coca-Cola bottles.

A barn dating back to the 1800s.