Marston House

The Marston House Museum is one of San Diego’s finest examples of the Arts and Crafts architectural movement. Completed in 1905 for prominent merchant and civic leader, George W. Marston and his family, this 8,500 square-foot home is surrounded by four acres of rolling lawns, manicured formal gardens, and canyon pathways.

Designed by renowned architects, William Sterling Hebbard and Irving John Gill, the home’s exterior demonstrates the transitional phase from the structure and rigidity of the Victorian age and the English Tudor intent of its original design to the simplicity, ease of maintenance, and “form follows function” philosophy of the Craftsman period. The interior features spacious hallways juxtaposed with close, intimate living areas that evoke the “hearth and home” aesthetic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It is furnished with Mission style pieces like those designed by brothers, Gustav, Leopold and John George Stickley, and a variety of decorative pottery, paintings, and textiles created by world-renown Craftsman artisans.