Martin Luther Tunnell Home

The Martin Luther Tunnell Home is located at 428 South Lincoln Street (turn right on South Lincoln Street and head north).

This two-story home, now painted lavender, was built in 1868 on the Tunnell homestead of 160 acres where Hancock College is located today. Searching for good farmland, the Tunnells traveled across the country by covered wagon. They first settled in northern California but, after a few years, traveled to the central coast where fertile government land could be homesteaded. This home is said to be one of the oldest still-standing homes in Santa Maria. Martin Tunnell's son George sold the home to the Crakes family, and it was moved to the present site, in 1905.