Hoffman House
North side of Grape Day Park
321 North Broadway, Escondido CA 92025

Courtesy City of Escondido

BUILT IN 1890, THE HOFFMAN HOUSE is a 1,700 square foot farmhouse where the first Lutheran minister in Escondido, Rev. William Hoffman, and his wife Emma raised eight children.

A redwood structure of eight rooms with seven gables, the home is built in the vernacular style and painted in its historic colors. A redwood structure of eight rooms with seven gables. It is covered in both shingle and shiplap siding. Water pumped into the adjacent tank house was gravity fed to the farmhouse. A windmill was added in the 1920s.

The home was donated to the city and moved onsite and restored as a part of Escondido's Grape Day Park, where it is open to the public along with six other historic buildings. The museum is furnished as it would have been at the turn of the 20th century.

Escondido History Center LINK