The McHenry Mansion, Modesto, California

The McHenry Mansion, located at 906 15th Street in Modesto, is a Victorian-Italianate home originally built in 1883 for Robert McHenry (Robert Henry Brewster) who was a rancher, banker and eventually a politician. Robert lived here with his wife, Matilda.

After Robert died in 1890, and Matilda died in 1896, their son Oramil and his wife Louise decided to live there with their children. Eventually Oramil and his wife would divorce. Oramil would end up keeping their sons, while Louise took their daughter. Sadly, their little girl died from burns she suffered in her hotel room at the Hollenbeck Hotel in Los Angeles. Oramil later remarried in 1902 but lived only 4 more years, dying in 1906. Afterwards, his 2nd wife inherited it.

The house would go through several transformations, from the Elmwood Sanitarium in 1919, to the Langdon Apartments, named after Oramil's 2nd wife's 2nd husband, William Langdon. Eventually the home had went into such disrepair over the years until the Julio R. Gallo Foundation purchased the home to preserve it back to the way it was when Robert McHenry lived in it.

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