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Birdseye View of Pacific Grove | City Departments | Chautauqua
Early Businesses | The Faces of Chinatown | Feast of Lanterns
Growing up in the Grove | Grand Army of the Republic | Gardens in the Grove
Hazards of the Rocky Shores | A City of Homes | Hopkins Seaside Laboratory
Mammoth Stables & Horses | Hotel to Holman's | Lovers Point
RLS' Old Pacific Capital Quote | Pacific Grove People
The First Pledge of Allegiance | Pacific Grove on Track | C.K. Tuttle

Display case in Chautauqua Years exhibit shows (from left) original chair* from Methodist Church on
Lighthouse Avenue, walking stick fashioned from wood from the wreck of the ship Rhoderick Dhu, spire ornament*
from the Methodist Church, ledger from Norton's Grocery, early bathing suit from the Bathhouse, swan head* from glass-bottom boat, glass flytrap (courtesy of Peter Sonne), and quilt* (in background) with embroidered signatures of Methodist Church ladies. All items marked with * courtesy of the Pacific Grove Heritage Society.
Other items from the Museum's collection. Store front created by Snick Farkas.

Chautauqua Years Home

RLS' Old Pacific Capital Quote

1889 map of the Pacific Grove Retreat courtesy of the Travaille family.

A City of Homes

Pacific Grove on Track

Organ from the Methodist Church on Lighthouse Avenue, with facsimilie of C.K. Tuttle's
organ music, on display in the exhibit (both courtesy of the Pacific Grove Heritage Society).

The First Methodist Church was located on Lighthouse Avenue between 17th & 18th streets.
At the time this photo was taken, E.P. Dennett was the pastor. Building construction began in 1888,
and the church was dedicated in 1889. The Assembly Hall was used for a variety of purposes,
including community events, Chautauqua meetings, and annual Methodist conferences.
September 16, 1907. #16.3-544-BP, from the Museum's Tuttle Collection.

Two windows salvaged from the Methodist Church on Lighthouse Avenue
(from the Museum's collection) are displayed in the Chautauqua Years exhibit.

Grand Army of the Republic

Early Businesses

City Departments

Hotel to Holman's

Chautauqua & Chautauqua Performers

Feast of Lanterns

C.K. Tuttle

Gardens in the Grove

Mammoth Stables & Horses

Pacific Improvement Company's superintendent Joseph O. Johnson stands in the foreground.
Behind him is the wagon gate at Lighthouse & Grand avenues, which
was downhill a few blocks from Johnson's Mammoth Stables.
c. 1885. Photo by C.W.J. Johnson. From the Museum's collection.

The First Pledge of Allegiance

Growing up in the Grove

Hazards of the Rocky Shores

Hopkins Seaside Laboratory

Birdseye View of Pacific Grove

Pacific Grove People

Lovers Point

The Faces of Chinatown

1919 real estate map of Pacific Grove.
The map once belonged to Julia Platt, and is from the Museum's collection.