{"id":443,"date":"2007-06-26T07:12:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/holly-hill-house\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T07:17:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:17:30","slug":"holly-hill-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/holly-hill-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Hill House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/holly-hill.jpg\" title=\"holly-hill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image444\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/holly-hill.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"holly-hill.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>While making plans to celebrate our anniversary in Avalon (on Santa Catalina Island) later this year, I ran across this picture I took of Holly Hill House during a previous anniversary trip (click on the picture for a larger view). <\/p>\n<p>The charming Queen Anne style cottage on the bluff over looking Avalon Bay has been a local landmark since 1890. The third oldest house in Avalon, its history mirrors that of the town. The house has always been a private residence and the current owner has restored it and furnished it with turn-of-the-century antiques. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/november\/lil-holly.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><em>Is the story true that the builder\/owner of the Holly Hill House refused to let women on the property after his bride-to-be jilted him, because she didn&#8217;t want to live in such an isolated place?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lookout Cot (later Holly Hill House) was built in 1890 as a private residence by Peter Gano, a retired engineer from Pasadena. His sister was to come live with him, but she never did. He <em>did <\/em>allow women on the property. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While making plans to celebrate our anniversary in Avalon (on Santa Catalina Island) later this year, I ran across this picture I took of Holly Hill&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}