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The James Johnston House
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Anyone driving along Route 1 in Half Moon Bay should have noticed the
isolated large white house east of the highway on Higgins-Purisima Road
and just south of the intersection of Main Street and Route 1. This
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The New England "salt-box" design.
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New England style "salt-box" building is the James Johnston House. It
was built about 1855 by Half Moon Bay pioneer James Johnston (1813-1879)
and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. He and his family were one of the first American families to live on the coast. The family consisted of three sons, a daughter, James' mother-in-law "Melita", and his sister Isabel. It has
survived nearly 150 years of weather, abandonment, vandalism, and high
winds. It is now actively being restored by the Johnston House Foundation,
Inc.
Our Mission: The Johnston House Foundation is a non-profit organization
that was established in 1971 to protect, preserve, restore and refurbish
the James Johnston House and its environment and to promote the education
of the public in the history of the Coastside and California.
Our website at www.johnstonhousehmb.org has been created to familiarize
the internet community with the history of the James Johnston House and the
ongoing efforts of the Johnston House Foundation, Inc. to restore this historical
treasure to nearly its original form. We hope you find the site interesting and do welcome your support in the restoration!
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