Sale House Update
On the corner of Gilmore Ranch Road and Sale Lane
Our “Sale House” is now sporting a new roof. The downstairs electrical re-wiring is mostly complete. The electrician will return to
complete the remainder of the downstairs rooms when those rooms are ready. The plan includes installing a chandelier in the entry,
some ceiling fans with lights in the parlor as well as the dining room. Some wall repair and painting has been completed or is in the
process of completion in the downstairs area.
Renovation of the kitchen is planned in the near future.
Four bedrooms upstairs have already been adopted by volunteers who are refurbishing their own selected rooms at this time.
Available for adoption are the following rooms:
Downstairs: Parlor
Dining room
Sitting room
Upstairs: Three bedrooms
Two bathrooms
Sponsors for replacing windows are still needed.
If you are interested in adopting one or more of these areas please call…Allene Dering at 530-529-5599 or 530-200-4847
The Sale House History
Excerpts from a series of historical facts written by Ida Webster who is a published Red Bluff Historian.
Across the Sacramento River off Antelope Blvd, on the corner of Gilmore Ranch Road and Sale Lane, stands a huge, grey-shingled
Victorian home. This house was to be big and comfortable with all modern conveniences, plus spacious enough to house many
children and guests. It was built in 1908-1909 for the Francis (Frank) Edward Gilmore family, and since 1919 has belonged to the
Sale family.
Originally, the home was part of the Gilmore ranch founded by John Gilmore. It was a ranch of 570 acres which raised wheat, cattle
and had a dairy. When Frank Gilmore’s family wanted to sell the ranch in 1919, Douglas A Lindey purchased the home for his
daughter Mary Denson Lindley and her family. Her husband was Richie Sale. The Sales began converting the ranch from grain, cattle
and dairy products into a thriving orchard. In 1910 the Sale couple had three children, later they had five more. Both Sale parents
served on the local school board, setting a precedent for their descendants many of whom have been school board members, school
teachers, school administrators, city and county officials, and very involved in almost every facet of community life.
The ranch became a Mecca for the younger set, and during the Depression years of the 30’s and early 40’s, many college students
earned their clothing and tuition money picking and packing peaches at the orchard. Richie Sale died in 1939 and Mary Sale lived in
the grey Victorian until 1970. She died in 1978.
The ranch and the old home are still in the Sale family. The grey-shingled Victorian currently is set to house the office of P.A.T.H.
(The Poor and The Homeless of Tehama County), and to become P.A.T.H.’s transitional home for Women and Children.
Interesting Architectural Description of the Gilmore/Sale House
The front of the Sale House Victorian faces toward Sale Lane and Red Bluff. The hip roof has central dormers on three sides. The
roof including the large lower roof over the back of the house, and in wide overhanging eaves supported by carved rafters. The
front, or formal, porch has a gable roof with eaves, rafters, shingled end and plain frieze, supported by large round pillars set on top
of brick railings made with semicircular topped openings. The foundation and wall on each side of the wide steps are also brick.
The large veranda on the Gilmore Ranch Road side, extending from the door around the back corner of the house, has an angled roof
with a boxed cornice and plain frieze. It has the same round pillars and brick railing as on the front porch.
There are angled bays on the front section with full length windows on the sides and a pair of very small square window placed high
on the front of each bay. The many windows have plain molding and are either paned or have patterned leaded glass designs.
On the south side of the house is a tall clinker brick chimney rising from the ground level with bricks jutting out in irregular fashion.
Inset in the chimney by the builders as an ancient Indian symbol of “good luck” is a large swastika made of light stone. During World
War II, some local patriots requested the removal of the sign. They forgot, in their wartime fervor that the Indian symbol has the
form of the cross with the ends bent at the right angles in a counterclockwise direction forming a square. The Nazi swastika
has the ends bent in a clockwise direction, and the symbol is placed at an angle in a diamond position. The good luck symbol remains
on the chimney today.
On the corner of Gilmore Ranch Road and Sale Lane
Our “Sale House” is now sporting a new roof. The downstairs electrical re-wiring is mostly complete. The electrician will return to
complete the remainder of the downstairs rooms when those rooms are ready. The plan includes installing a chandelier in the entry,
some ceiling fans with lights in the parlor as well as the dining room. Some wall repair and painting has been completed or is in the
process of completion in the downstairs area.
Renovation of the kitchen is planned in the near future.
Four bedrooms upstairs have already been adopted by volunteers who are refurbishing their own selected rooms at this time.
Available for adoption are the following rooms:
Downstairs: Parlor
Dining room
Sitting room
Upstairs: Three bedrooms
Two bathrooms
Sponsors for replacing windows are still needed.
If you are interested in adopting one or more of these areas please call…Allene Dering at 530-529-5599 or 530-200-4847
The Sale House History
Excerpts from a series of historical facts written by Ida Webster who is a published Red Bluff Historian.
Across the Sacramento River off Antelope Blvd, on the corner of Gilmore Ranch Road and Sale Lane, stands a huge, grey-shingled
Victorian home. This house was to be big and comfortable with all modern conveniences, plus spacious enough to house many
children and guests. It was built in 1908-1909 for the Francis (Frank) Edward Gilmore family, and since 1919 has belonged to the
Sale family.
Originally, the home was part of the Gilmore ranch founded by John Gilmore. It was a ranch of 570 acres which raised wheat, cattle
and had a dairy. When Frank Gilmore’s family wanted to sell the ranch in 1919, Douglas A Lindey purchased the home for his
daughter Mary Denson Lindley and her family. Her husband was Richie Sale. The Sales began converting the ranch from grain, cattle
and dairy products into a thriving orchard. In 1910 the Sale couple had three children, later they had five more. Both Sale parents
served on the local school board, setting a precedent for their descendants many of whom have been school board members, school
teachers, school administrators, city and county officials, and very involved in almost every facet of community life.
The ranch became a Mecca for the younger set, and during the Depression years of the 30’s and early 40’s, many college students
earned their clothing and tuition money picking and packing peaches at the orchard. Richie Sale died in 1939 and Mary Sale lived in
the grey Victorian until 1970. She died in 1978.
The ranch and the old home are still in the Sale family. The grey-shingled Victorian currently is set to house the office of P.A.T.H.
(The Poor and The Homeless of Tehama County), and to become P.A.T.H.’s transitional home for Women and Children.
Interesting Architectural Description of the Gilmore/Sale House
The front of the Sale House Victorian faces toward Sale Lane and Red Bluff. The hip roof has central dormers on three sides. The
roof including the large lower roof over the back of the house, and in wide overhanging eaves supported by carved rafters. The
front, or formal, porch has a gable roof with eaves, rafters, shingled end and plain frieze, supported by large round pillars set on top
of brick railings made with semicircular topped openings. The foundation and wall on each side of the wide steps are also brick.
The large veranda on the Gilmore Ranch Road side, extending from the door around the back corner of the house, has an angled roof
with a boxed cornice and plain frieze. It has the same round pillars and brick railing as on the front porch.
There are angled bays on the front section with full length windows on the sides and a pair of very small square window placed high
on the front of each bay. The many windows have plain molding and are either paned or have patterned leaded glass designs.
On the south side of the house is a tall clinker brick chimney rising from the ground level with bricks jutting out in irregular fashion.
Inset in the chimney by the builders as an ancient Indian symbol of “good luck” is a large swastika made of light stone. During World
War II, some local patriots requested the removal of the sign. They forgot, in their wartime fervor that the Indian symbol has the
form of the cross with the ends bent at the right angles in a counterclockwise direction forming a square. The Nazi swastika
has the ends bent in a clockwise direction, and the symbol is placed at an angle in a diamond position. The good luck symbol remains
on the chimney today.
