Heritage County Park
Cluster of relocated Victorian mansions and a historic synagogue, saved from demolition and reassembled around a shared green.
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This guide to Heritage County Park in San Diego centers on a small Victorian parlor where sisters Bess and Gertrude Gilbert, patrons rather than performers, hosted some of the biggest names in music between 1892 and 1965, including pianist Arthur Rubinstein and violinist Yehudi Menuhin. It traces the house back to 1887 and its builder John Sherman, a cousin of the Civil War general, then follows how 1970s downtown growth threatened it and a cluster of other Victorian buildings with demolition. You'll also hear about a rescued former synagogue nearby that still keeps its pump organs.
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