John Steinbeck House (Salinas, California)

	John Steinbeck House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	132 Central Ave., Salinas, California
Coordinates	36°40′36″N 121°39′29″W / 36.67667°N 121.65806°WCoordinates: 36°40′36″N 121°39′29″W / 36.67667°N 121.65806°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1897
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	00000856
Added to NRHP	August 8, 2000

The John Steinbeck House is a historic house restaurant and house museum in Salinas, California. The house was the boyhood home of author John Steinbeck. (John Steinbeck 1902–1968)

Steinbeck's boyhood home is a turreted Victorian building in downtown Salinas, which has been preserved and restored by the Valley Guild, a nonprofit organization. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The house is open for tours during the summer on Sunday afternoons.^[2] The National Steinbeck Center is located two blocks away at 1 Main Street.

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References[]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ John Steinbeck's Home and Birthplace, Information Point. Retrieved 2007.

External links[]

Official website

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] John Steinbeck's Home and Birthplace, Information Point. Retrieved 2007.

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