Ardenwood Historic Farm
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George Washington Patterson Ranch--Ardenwood
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A view of the Patterson House during a Civil War demonstration during Memorial Day 2003
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 Ardenwood Historic Farm
Ardenwood Historic Farm
Ardenwood Historic Farm
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| Location | 34600 Newark Blvd. Fremont, California |
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| Coordinates | 37°33′29″N 122°02′58″W / 37.55806°N 122.04944°WCoordinates: 37°33′29″N 122°02′58″W / 37.55806°N 122.04944°W |
| Architect | James Hawley |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP Reference # | 85003043 |
| Added to NRHP | November 29, 1985 |
Ardenwood Historic Farm is a Regional Historic Landmark in Fremont, California. It is managed by the East Bay Regional Park District.
Officially opened to the public on July 28, 1985, the entire park includes a farm, a large forest and a mansion now called the Patterson House which was first constructed in 1857 by the farm's original owner, George Washington Patterson.
Patterson called his estate "Ardenwood", after the forested area in England mentioned in Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. There were two subsequent additions to the house. The largest was in 1889 when Patterson and his wife Clara added the Queen Anne Victorian section to the House. The second addition came in 1915 when Patterson's son Henry and his wife remodeled the old farm house section, and added rooms including the kitchen, a large bedroom above the kitchen, the sun porch, nursery, and a bathroom with indoor plumbing.
A feature of the park is the Railroad Museum at Ardenwood which operates a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gaugehorse-drawn railway, a recreation of a historic local branch of the South Pacific Coast Railroad. The museum has a collection of narrow gauge railroad cars and other artifacts of 19th-century railroading. The museum is run by the Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources.
The park hosts many events, a Celtic festival, an Independence Day celebration, the Washington Township Railroad Fair on Labor Day, a Renaissance Faire in September, The Harvest Festival in October, a Zydeco concert, and many Halloween celebrations, complete with a haunted railroad. Among other crops, in the fall the farm harvests a large pumpkin patch.
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