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This beautiful Queen Anne Victorian jewel nestled in the Sherman Heights Historic District may be lost to neglect unless YOU can help save it.

Log on to http://sohosandiego.org/main/villapetition.htm to learn more. The house, designed by the renowned architecture firm Comstock & Trotsche in 1887 for its original owner, the world-famous concert pianist and spiritualist Jesse Francis Shepard, is still closed to the public after five years and sits in a state of disrepair and threatened by vacancy.

09/05/2017

Sergei Rachmaninov - 4 Pieces (audio + sheet music)

Rachmaninov had popular pieces during 1887. Perhaps famed pianst Jesse Shepard may have played one of these. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSDprWUl9Q #villamontzuma #villamontezumamuseum #sandiego #victorianhome

The Four Pieces of 1887 are perhaps Rachmaninoff's first comprehensive works. Each has a clear aim and method to attain it, and all unfold with a fluency sig...

08/29/2017

Comrades (1887)

Could this piano piece Comrades (1887) by Felix McGlennon be one of the secular pieces that Jesse Shepard may have played? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYj3pyJBzrk #villamontezuma #villamontezumamuseum #sandiego #victorianhome

A stirring war song from the English music hall. words and music by Felix McGlennon arranged by E. Jonghmans published by National Music Co., Chicago sung by...

A beautiful 1887 music box playing a great little tune. #villamontezuma #villamontezumamuseum #musicfrom1800s

08/15/2017

Music Box 1887

A beautiful 1887 music box playing a great little tune. #villamontezuma #villamontezumamuseum #musicfrom1800s

08/01/2017

Earliest surviving film and sound recording 1888

It's just so amazing footage like this was filmed around the time the #villamontezumamuseum was built. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQpkIlv_lw #villamontezuma #victorianhome #sandiego #earlyfilms

1888, the year of the death of the composer Charles-Valentin Alkan (Chopin's friend and neighbour) is also the year of the earliest surviving recording of mu...

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1925 K St
San Diego, CA
92102

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http://villamontezuma.org

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