The three year project to restore Santa Rosa's most prominent historic home is nearing completion, and we are to rebuild and fit the large stained glass laylight that floods its reception area.
The 14000 square foot Stick-Eastlake Mansion was built in the late 1870s by local industrialist colonel Mark Lindsay McDonald, along the lines of a Mississippi Plantation home. It was visited by such luminaries as Mark Twain, Charles Crocker and Leland Stanford, and was used as the home to Polyanna in the Disney film.
The current owners responded to its position on the National Register of Historic Places by funding its complete restoration to the original state shown in an 1881 lithograph.
What a great project to be associated with!
