Sights in Eureka
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Blue Ox Millworks & Historic Park
Don't miss Blue Ox Millworks & Historic Park. One of only seven of its kind left in America, the millworks uses antique tools and mills to produce authentic gingerbread trim and decoration for Victorian buildings. One-hour self-guided tours take you through the mill and surrounding historical buildings, including a blacksmith shop and recreated 19th-century skid camp. Kids love the oxen.
Master craftsman Eric Hollenbeck does everything by hand, and even manufactures his own stains. (When colleagues laughed, saying, 'Why waste time making stain when you can buy if for around US$10?,' Eric replied, 'The hidden cost of convenience is knowledge.' Indeed.) If you spend Saturda…
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Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
South of downtown via Hwy 101 to Highland Ave, the 1853 Fort Humboldt State Historic Park overlooks Humboldt Bay. Only one structure remains, the tiny hospital, now a museum, but cool outdoor exhibits show the old equipment used to fell redwoods. The park fires up the machinery on the 3rd Saturday of the month, May through September.
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Carson Mansion
The most famous of Eureka's impressive Victorians is the ornate Carson Mansion, 1880s home of lumber baron William Carson, designed by Samuel and Joseph Newsom, the famous 19th-century architects. It took 100 men a full year to build. Today it's a private club.
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Carter House
Who says they don't build houses like that anymore? The Carter House, was built in the 1980s by bon vivant Mark Carter, using 19th-century blueprints he'd found in an antique store. He's a local celeb; you can meet him at the Hotel Carter, across the street.
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Morris Graves Museum of Art
The Morris Graves Museum of Art is Eureka's cultural hub and has rotating exhibitions of California artists inside a 1904 Carnegie library, the state's first public library. It hosts weekend jazz, dance and spoken-word performances (September to May).
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Romano Gabriel Wooden Sculpture Garden
The Romano Gabriel Wooden Sculpture Garden is enclosed by glass, between D and E Sts. For 30 years the brightly painted folk art in Gabriel's front yard delighted locals. After he died in 1977, the city moved the collection here.
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Wedding Mansion
The pink house opposite the Carson Mansion is the Wedding Mansion. It's an 1884 Queen Anne Victorian by the same architects, built as a wedding gift for Carson's son.
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Sequoia Park
Sequoia Park, boasts not only a 77-acre old-growth redwood grove, but it also has biking and hiking trails, a children's playground and picnic areas, and a small zoo.
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