Ainsley House, History museum in Campbell, United States.
Ainsley House is a history museum in Campbell, California, housed in a residential building designed in a Tudor Cotswold style with Arts and Crafts details throughout. The house retains its original furnishings and decor from the 1920s, giving a complete picture of how the interior once looked.
The house was built in 1925 for John Colpitts Ainsley, a businessman who played a role in the growth of the canning industry that shaped the area. After his death, the property eventually passed to the city of Campbell, which turned it into a museum.
The house takes its name from its first owner, a businessman in the local canning trade, and shows what domestic life looked like for a prosperous family in the early 1900s. The rooms are still arranged as they once were, with furniture and objects that give a direct sense of how people lived at the time.
Ainsley House stands at 300 Grant Street in Downtown Campbell, a short walk from the city's main street. The house and its carriage house, now the Wyland R. Morgan Gallery, were moved to this site in 1990 from the corner of Hamilton and Bascom Avenues, where they had stood on the family's 83-acre orchard. The nearby Campbell Historical Museum is run with them by the Campbell Historical Museum and Ainsley House Foundation.
The house and its carriage house, now the Wyland R. Morgan Gallery, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The family donated the house, its furnishings and the carriage house to the City of Campbell in 1989, and the buildings were moved to 300 Grant Street in 1990.
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