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Donate to support our projects and/or become a member
Donate to support our projects and/or become a member
Two Ways to Join and/or Donate
Two Ways to Join and/or Donate
ONLINE
ONLINE
Donate or Join Online via PayPal,
You do not need to have a PayPal account to donate by PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account, you can choose the option to "Donate with Debit or Credit Card."
Please use the drop-down to let us know what your donation is for - house tour, gift shop, a fundraiser, or other. Please include in the notes your phone number or email address.
We would appreciate it if you would include the nominal service charge as well. Thank you!
If you want to avoid paying the service charge, especially for large donations, you can donate by check using the instructions in the next section.
Donations for projects: Thank you! Questions? Please email mphf.secretary if you have questions. Please make sure that you have listed the fundraiser and have given your email address or phone number if we have questions.
Membership Online via PayPal,: Select the level at which you wish to join. Please email mphf.secretary@gmail.com with the information on the form for memberships - name, date of donation, email address, optional mailing address, membership and/or donation, which fund, and other ways you may wish to help.
Or Check / US MAIL
Or Check / US MAIL
Donate via check so more of your donation will go to the project of your choice.
Membership
Download and print the paper form - to join or to donate. Make check payable to the non-profit Mission Peak Heritage Foundation FEIN 94-2846937. Or write the information on a piece of paper to accompany your check.
Send the form (or a letter with the same information) to Mission Peak Heritage Foundation PO Box 3078 Fremont CA 94539.
Fundraiser
You may also donate to a fundraiser via US mail. Make the check payable to the non-profit Mission Peak Heritage Foundation. Please list which fundraiser and be sure to include your phone number and address for your donation letter and your phone number or email if we have any quesitons. The check should be written to "Mission Peak Heritage Foundation" and in the memo, write the name of the fundraiser.
Three Fundraisers
Three Fundraisers
These fundraisers are committees under the non-profit,
These fundraisers are committees under the non-profit,
Mission Peak Heritage Foundation (FEIN 94-2846937)
Mission Peak Heritage Foundation (FEIN 94-2846937)
Done! Thank you for the successful Fundraiser for HA Minton: Florence Shinn hired H.A. Minton in 1917 to draw up plans to remodel several rooms in the Big House. The Day Room was remodeled in a Colonial Revival style. We purchased all nine sheets of H.A. Minton's plans for all of the rooms that were remodeled. Now we know that electricity was brought in, upstairs and downstairs. The kitchen was modernized with the Butler's pantry, an electric plug was installed for an iron. A breakfast nook, popular at that time was installed for the growing family of Joseph and Florence. And more! We were able to print all of the plans with some of the funds and printed some at the library for free. Come and look at them on a special tour.
National Register Fundraiser: The historic Shinn property is in the process of being written up for a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
The nomination will be on the agenda on February 6, 2026 in Sacramento. We still have our final bill to pay our consultant, Michael Corbett.
Read more about the creation of this important document and consider making a donation to support the documentation.
Fundraiser: The Chinese Bunkhouse Preservation Project will preserve the last building of the Shinn Ranch China Camp - a bunkhouse. Donations will go toward the first phase of planning, the second phase of preservation, and finally the educational uses of the bunkhouse.
Thank you for supporting the history of the Shinn Ranch
Thank you for supporting the history of the Shinn Ranch
Allen and Joe Jr. met the mailman around 1912.
Niles was No. 1 for the U.S. Mail Rural Free Delivery.
About the Watercolor in the Header
About the Watercolor in the Header
In this undated photo of the Day room fireplace, there were three watercolors painted by Ethel Grau over the mantel. Ethyl Grau was a watercolorist who
On the fireplace today is a fourth Grau painting of the Shinn Cottage.
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