The historic Camron-Stanford house, the last of the 19th century Victorian mansions that once lined Oakland\u2019s Lake Merritt, was damaged in a fire early Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The initial call came in at 12:38 a.m. and 25 firefighters responded, according to the Oakland Fire Department. The fire was under control by 1:20 a.m.<\/p>\n
There were no reported injuries and \u201cthe full scale of structural damage is unknown at this time,\u201d the department said on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Built in 1876 by Samuel Merritt, the Camron-Stanford house became Oakland\u2019s first museum in 1907. It has been closed since 2024, and the\u00a0Camron-Stanford House Preservation Association is currently fundraising in order to reopen it to the public.<\/p>\n
Bill McInerney, president of the Camron-Stanford House Association, came to the house on Saturday morning to assess the destruction, which was concentrated on rear left side of the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLuckily this is the office and this is the kitchen, so the main structure did not get hit,\u201d he said, adding that he didn\u2019t expect any of the historic objects inside the property were damaged.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McInerney has been involved in the association for 25 years, and said this was the first such incident he could remember.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The museum has been closed for the past year and a half, but was planned to reopen to the public. McInerney said the fire would likely set that timeline back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic Camron-Stanford house, the last of the 19th century Victorian mansions that once lined Oakland\u2019s Lake Merritt,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,332,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-251813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-east-bay","10":"tag-oakland","11":"tag-oakland-headlines","12":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}