Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House /

The Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House is a Victorian house located in Tiburon, California. Built in 1876, the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The earliest human habitation of the local area was by hunter-gatherer Native American peoples. The clearest extant record of such habitation in the vicinity is on the nearby Ring Mountain, where rock art and grinding stones are found on some of the large boulders. The Benjamin and Hilarita Lyford House on Richardson Bay in Tiburon, California, was the home of Benjamin Lyford, a former soldier in the Union Army who was born in New Hampshire and raised in Cabot, Vermont. He migrated to San Francisco after the American Civil War to practice medicine, with his wife Hilarita née Reed, the daughter of John Reed, an Irish immigrant who was granted the Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio, literally "the place where wood is cut for the Presidio", which today comprises the peninsula incorporating Tiburon, Belvedere and much of southern Marin County. The Benjamin Lyford House was originally located at Strawberry Point, but was moved in 1957 when threatened with demolition and is now co-owned by the National Audubon