The Holiday Inn Express San Diego Old Town hotel is conveniently located just 5-minutes from historic Heritage Park, an eight-acre county park home to many restored Victorian homes.

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A variety of architectural styles are represented at Heritage Park in San Diego Old Town and makes a day of touring and exploring interesting and exciting. Some of the homes are listed here.

Bushyhead House — 1887
The Bushyhead House is an example of an Italianate home which were typically two to three stories in height, with flat or hip roofs, bay windows with inset wooden panels, corner boards and two over two double-hung windows. Edward Wilkerson Bushyhead, a Cherokee Indian, born in Oklahoma, and a surviving participant of the 'trail of tears' when only seven years old, traveled to California during the gold rush and served as San Diego sheriff and chief of police in addition to being part owner of the San Diego Union newspaper.

McConaughy House — 1887
This home is in the Stick-Eastlake structure style, plain, simple and relatively modern. Stick houses are characterized by a large, ornamental truss under the gable eaves of a house; frequently include square bay windows, flat roof lines and free-style decorations. When merged with Eastlake style they featured even more decoration. The John McConaughy house is a two story house whose original owner was the founder of the first regularly scheduled freight and passenger service in San Diego County.

Christian House — 1889
Queen Anne style houses boast towers, dormers, bay windows, and corbelled chimneys along with wall surfaces like coursed shingles, clapboards, and inset panels of sawn wooden ornament. They also feature irregular roof lines, decorative wrap-around porches and small square or diamond pane windows. The Christian House is a late Victorian design built by Harfield Timberlake Christian, the founder of an early San Diego abstract company.

Temple Beth Israel — 1889
Temple Beth Israel is built in the Classical Revival style - an analytical, scientific, dedicated and dogmatic revival based on intensive studies of Greek and Roman buildings. The Classical Revival style was concerned with the application of Greek plans and proportions to civic buildings.

Senlis Cottage — 1896
A modest cottage built for Eugene Senlis, an employee of San Diego pioneer horticulturist Kate Sessions who is known as the "Mother of Balboa Park", this house is a Nineteenth Century Vernacular home, without the amenities of gas, electricity, water, or sewer, and is an example of dwellings occupied in the 1880s by working-class people.

For more information on Heritage Park, click here to visit the County of San Diego website Parks and Recreation page.

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