The 12,000 square-foot home is "more
kid-friendly" for the four
Newsom children, all under 10, said Newsom spokesman Nathan Click. The
family plans to move, along with their two dogs and rabbit, once their
new house is renovated in a few months. It has 6 bedrooms and 10
bathrooms in eight acres of manicured landscaping over looking the
Sacramento Bluff and Bar.
A Realtor's invitation described the Fair Oaks property as a "sophisticated Santa Barbara Montecito-styled home within over eight acres of park-like setting" including a wine cellar, pool, guest house and tennis court.
The mansion was home to thirteen governors and their families, from George Pardee in 1903 to Ronald Reagan for four months in 1967. After nearly fifty years as a public museum, the mansion resumed its role as an official residence in 2015, when then-Governor Jerry Brown moved into the property with his wife.
The thirty-room, three story Second Empire-Italianate Victorian mansion was built in 1877 for local hardware merchant Albert Gallatin, who sold it to businessman Joseph Steffens, the father of journalist Lincoln Steffens, in 1887. The State of California purchased the house in 1903 to serve as the governor's mansion. Many furnishings remain from former governors, including Pardee's 1902 Steinway piano, velvet chairs and sofas belonging to Governor Hiram Johnson, and Persian rugs bought by the wife of Earl Warren. The structure has been renovated a number of times over the years. In 1967 after the Reagans moved out, the mansion was turned into a museum and opened to the public. The third floor of the mansion has been closed to the public since the 1990s.
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