George Marston and his father came to San Diego from Wisconsin in 1870. The younger Marston was involved in protecting and preserving the original 1,400 acre City Park for years before building his family home in 1905 in the park’s northwest corner. City Park would become Balboa Park five years later.
Marston and his wife Anna spent the rest of their lives in the home. Their daughter Mary lived there until she died in 1987 at the age of 107.
She left the house to the city of San Diego. SOHO, the Save Our Heritage Organisation, took over management of the property in 2009…