Kimberly Crest

Navel oranges paid for this. Redlands grew rich enough on citrus in the 1890s that a French chateau went up on the hillside in 1897, with a carriage house built to match and, from 1908, terraced Italian gardens running most of a thousand yards down to the gate. It takes its name from the Kimberly-Clark family who later owned it. The groves that funded the house are subdivisions now, and the house came through as a museum, which is the reverse of the usual order.

What the plaque says

Mary Kimberly Shirk, an advocate for women's education and acting president of Scripps College during World War II, made a gift of her home, Kimberly Crest, to the people of Redlands. The house, an excellent example of Chateauesque architecture designed by the firm of Dennis and Farwell, was constructed in 1897. Mrs. Shirk's parents purchased it in 1905, adding the magnificent Italian style gardens, designed by Parkinson and Bergstrom, in 1909. Mrs. Shirk's father, J. Alfred Kimberly, was a founder of the Kimberly-Clark Paper Company. Her mother, Helen Cheney Kimberly, was a strong supporter of the woman's club movement.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Original McDonald's Site — 9.2 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.
• Wigwam Motel — 11 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Harada House — 12 mi
  The 1884 cottage a Japanese American family bought in their children's names, and kept in court.
• March Field Air Museum — 12 mi
  A century of the same field, still working — the museum parked outside the fence of a base that has flown since 1918.

More markers nearby

• A.K. Smiley Public Library — 1.3 mi
• The Zanja — 1.6 mi
• San Bernardino Asistencia — 2.6 mi
• Guachama Rancheria — 3.9 mi