The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial

The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial is a memorial in San Mateo, California. The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial is situated nearby to Schilling Lake, as well as near Portola Farms.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and Our Lady of the Wayside Church.

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

Nature reserve

The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a 1,190 acres nature preserve and biological field station formally established as a reserve in 1973. The biological preserve is owned by Stanford University, and is part of the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is situated 1½ miles northeast of The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial.

Our Lady of the Wayside Church

Church

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Our Lady of the Wayside Church is a modest church built in 1912 for the then-growing Catholic parish of Portola Valley by a combined effort of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic members of The Family, a San Francisco men's club that owns a nearby rural retreat. Our Lady of the Wayside Church is situated 1¼ miles southeast of The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial.

Portola Valley School

Town hall

Photo: W Nowicki, CC BY 3.0.

The Portola Valley School is a one-room schoolhouse that sits at 775 Portola Road in Portola Valley, California. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is currently used for Portola Valley town-hall meetings. Portola Valley School is situated 1½ miles southeast of The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sky Londa and Woodside.

Sky Londa

Hamlet

Sky Londa is an unincorporated mountain community in San Mateo County, California, United States, located at the intersection of State Route 84 and State Route 35.

Woodside

Photo: Jawed, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Woodside is a small town on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is considered one of the wealthiest towns in the United States, and is home to many celebrities and executives. Despite its small size, Woodside features many local attractions.

Portola Valley

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Portola Valley is on the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The city is in San Mateo County and is south of Woodside and west of Menlo Park.

The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “In Recognition and Appreciation of the Gift of Edna Bloss Thorne [....] Towards the Preservation of This Property”
Category: historic site
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.39427° or 37° 23′ 39″ north

Longitude

-122.25507° or 122° 15′ 18″ west

Open location code

849V9PVV+PX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3739860334

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Schilling Lake and Portola Farms.

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