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Two Ways to Join and/or Donate

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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.
- 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
- Membership: 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

Donate via check so more of your donation will go to the project of your choice.

Download and print the paper form - to join or to donate. Make check payable to Mission Peak Heritage Foundation. 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.

Three Fundraisers

Fundraiser: The historic Shinn property is in the process of being written up for a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
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.

Done! 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!

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

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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