Golden Gate Villa

{{short description|Historic house in California, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Golden Gate Villa

| nrhp_type =

| image = USA-Santa_Cruz-Golden_Gate_Villa-2.jpg

| caption = Golden Gate Villa as it appeared in 2010

| location = 924 3rd St., Santa Cruz, California

| coordinates = {{coord|36|58|2|N|122|1|18|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = California#USA

| area =

| built = 1891

| architect = Welsh, Thomas J.

| architecture = Queen Anne

| added = July 24, 1975

| refnum = 75000482

}}

The Golden Gate Villa is a Queen Anne style house built in 1891 in Santa Cruz, California. The house was designed by San Francisco architect Thomas J. Welsh for Major Frank McLaughlin, a mining engineer and California politician. Visitors to Golden Gate Villa included Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison. In the 1940s the house was operated as a restaurant, the Palais Monte Carlo. After passing through several owners, in 1963 the house was purchased by seafood magnate William W. Durney and his screenwriter wife Dorothy Kingsley, who sold it to the present owner.{{cite web|url=http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/dac12ae750afce922632b1d9a1f17930.pdf|date=1991-11-03|work=The Golden Gate Villa|title=The Golden Gate Villa by Susan Dormanen|publisher=Santa Cruz Public Library}} On July 24, 1975, the Golden Gate Villa was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/75000482|title=National Register Digital Asset Management System|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service}}