Modjeska's Home

Modjeska reached California in 1876 with her husband, Charles Bozenta Chlapowski, and a party of friends to farm a colony at Anaheim. It failed within a year, and the failure made her: she learned English and spent two decades touring American stages with her husband beside her. The earnings came back to this canyon. In 1888 Stanford White designed the gabled white cottage she named Arden, for the forest of As You Like It, on an estate that once ran to 1,340 acres; the county park keeps 14.4. The house is seen by reservation only.

What the plaque says

Modjeska's Home Famous as the home of Madame Modjeska one of the world's great actresses, it was designed by Stanford White in 1888 on property called the "Forest of Arden" Sold soon after her retirement, it remains a monument to the woman who contributed immeasurably to the cultural life of Orange County. Historical Landmark No. 205 California State Park Commission

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• California Citrus State Historic Park — 18 mi
  A state park that is still a working orange grove — the last big piece of Riverside's citrus landscape left standing.
• Sherman Institute & the Sherman Indian Museum — 18 mi
  The federal Indian boarding school Riverside lobbied to get — still a school today, its 1902 building now a museum.
• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 19 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• Riverside Chinatown Site — 23 mi
  Riverside's second Chinatown — an empty lot on purpose, with eighty percent of it still underground.

More markers nearby

• Flores Peak — 0.4 mi
• Carbondale — 3.0 mi
• Silverado — 3.6 mi
• The Serrano Adobe — 5.7 mi