| Location: |
Lower level of the Menlo
Park Library
800 Alma St.
Menlo Park, CA |
| Hours: |
Tuesday 12 noon - 2 p.m.
Wednesday 10 a.m - 2 p.m. |
| Phone: |
650 330-2522 |
| Mailing Address: |
Menlo Park Historical
Association
P.O. Box 1002
Menlo Park, CA 94026-1002 |
The Menlo Park Historical Association
is a group of volunteers dedicated to preserving the history of
Menlo Park. Activities focus on protecting historic buildings,
objects, photographs, and records. New
memberships are welcome.
First headquartered at 555 Ravenswood
Ave. in the historic Gate Lodge built by Milton Latham in 1872,
the Association was established in 1974. A non-profit corporation,
The Menlo Park Historical Association is involved in creating
a historical collection of photographs and recording oral histories
of our earliest resident families.
Some of the materials available to visitors:
- Polk (a.k.a. city) directories for
Menlo Park from most of the 1900s
- Haines (a.k.a. reverse, criss-cross)
directories for San Mateo County into the 1970s
- Clipping files with an index and computer
listing
- Special collections including photographs
and oral histories
- Journals such as the California Historical
Society Quarterly
- Other publications of historical material
Other sources for genealogical information:
- Family History Center
1105 Valparaiso Avenue, Menlo Park (650) 325-9711
- Sutro Library
480 Winston Drive, San Francisco (415) 731-4477
- San
Mateo County History Museum
777 Hamilton Street, Redwood City (650) 299-0104
- Santa Clara Library
2635 Homestead Road, Santa Clara (408) 984-3236
- U.S. Federal Archives & Records
Center
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno (650) 876-9009
