December Events with SOHO

Need a break from your busy December schedule? Saving Our Heritage Organization is offering several terrific events to make your holiday season even brighter.

This shopping season visit & Help Save the Past – Buy a Present

Sunday December 11

11am-4pm

Please join SOHO on Sunday December 11, for the third annual holiday event at what has become one of San Diego’s favorite shopping destinations for lovers of historic architecture, gardens, and preservation: the Marston House Museum Shop!

This event is open to the public and even non-members will get a 10% discount on this day, so bring a friend!

• Enjoy complimentary hot cider and baked goods
• Have your gifts wrapped free while you shop
• Ample parking on Balboa Drive or park at Inspiration Point and take the free trolley
• Regular admission for house tours, where a display of early 20th century Christmas décor is being showcased. Remember members are always free!

This year there will be a new item added to their private label line of the iconic design of William Templeton Johnson’s eucalyptus motif from the Marston’s formal gardens. Embossed leather journals make an exceptional gift and memento of this beautiful site.

Reflecting the style and craftsmanship from a more genteel era, merchandise includes art pottery, tiles, vintage prints, jewelry, reproduced turn of the century board games and of course a select choice of beautiful holiday decorations. Best of all, your purchases help to fund SOHO’s work in protecting San Diego’s heritage, providing you an opportunity to gift twice—to your loved ones and to SOHO just by a single purchase.

The shop is housed in the estate’s 1905 Hebbard & Gill carriage house and offers a distinctive mix of attractive gift and specialty food items, decorative arts and the most complete historic architecture book selection in town.

December 13 & 14

A Christmas Carol at the Whaley House

Join SOHO and the Whaley House Museum staff for a performance of Charles Dickens’ timeless holiday ghost story A Christmas Carol, set in the historic and haunted Whaley House. The classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-To-Come, will unfold as you go from room to room in the historic 1857 brick mansion known as “America’s Most Haunted.” Although not a traditional tour of the Whaley House, A Christmas Carol is sure to bring holiday fun for the whole family, and who knows? You might even encounter a Ghost of Christmas Past.

About the Whaley House

The Whaley House was built in 1857 by San Diego pioneer Thomas Whaley and served as the Whaley family home, San Diego’s first commercial theater, an early County Courthouse, and Whaley’s general mercantile store. The museum’s haunted reputation dates back 150 years to when the Whaley family first occupied the building and reported hearing heavy footsteps moving about the house, as though made by the boots of a large man.

About A Christmas Carol

First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens tells the story of mean, stingy Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation to a kinder, gentler man after a series of supernatural visitations, and met with instant success and critical acclaim. According to historian Ronald Hutton, the current state of observance of Christmas is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday spearheaded by A Christmas Carol.

When   Tuesday, December 13 and Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Times   7pm / 7:30pm / 8pm / 8:30pm / 9pm

(Performance lasts approximately 25 minutes)

Cost   $8 per person – Space is limited but tickets are still available for most shows, so advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended

Purchase Advance Tickets

Online  HERE | Call   (619) 297-7511

In Person: Whaley House Museum Shop, 2476 San Diego Avenue in Historic Old Town San Diego