Located in beautiful Marin, these historic properties are available for rent to the public throughout the year.   These indoor and outdoor sites are perfect for weddings, memorial services, elopements, vow renewals or other celebrations of life. 

Old Saint Hilary Landmark is located on the hill overlooking the town of Tiburon and has beautiful bay views back to San Francisco.  This location for numerous Marin wedding ceremonies is a spectacular place.

The SS China Cabin is located on the water and also has water views facing back to San Francisco. This intimate parlor is perfect for smaller gatherings such as vow renewals, elopements, memorial services and other celebrations of life. 

The Landmarks Art & Garden Center overlooks Richardson Bay and is a beautiful venue for an outdoor wedding or outdoor reception here in Marin.

Old St. Hilary's Church - 1888

If you'd like to have your ceremony in a very special place, reserve Old St. Hilary's Landmark in Tiburon in Marin County.

With its gorgeous views overlooking Belvedere, Angel Island and the Golden Gate, this is the perfect place for an intimate wedding ceremony in a historic wedding site. The small white clapboard building with high peaked roof has interior walls of natural redwood, a ceiling of Douglas fir, oak pews and is lit by replicas of the original oil-burning chandeliers. The only original stained-glass window, which is above the door, depicts St. Hilary, patron saint of scholars; the other windows are Gothic arches of amber glass.

This is a simple former chapel (built in 1888)-one of the few California examples of Carpenter's Gothic style to survive in its original condition and setting.  Its sits on the hill in a site protected as a rare wildflower preserve

Not only is the Old Saint Hilary's well-known place for weddings but it is a great location for memorial services, elopements, and other family celebration events.  An unparalled site in southern Marin! 

Old Saint Hilary is a popular photo site for the locals and when you visit you will understand why. 

Old Saint Hilary is the Marin location for the Landmarks Concert Series because the nave has excellent acoustics!

It may be reserved for name day celebrations, concerts and recitals.

Reservations and Further Information
Please contact the Rental Coordinator at the Landmarks Society Message Center, 415-435-1853 extension 2, or email lmsrentals@sbcglobal.net.

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Conditions of Use
Occupancy is limited by law to 125 persons. Limited parking at Old St. Hilary's is by permit only. Guests must be shuttled round trip from a pre-arranged parking area. No smoking indoors or on the grounds, which is a high fire hazard zone. No food or beverage may be served. From April through October, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, Old St. Hilary's is open to the public as an historic site.

SS China Cabin - 1867

The Victorian drawing room, 20' x 40', is a national maritime landmark and is in Belvedere on the bay in sunny Marin. It may be reserved for private parties including luncheons and dinners, wedding receptions or other family receptions, formal and informal weddings (even elopements!), memorial services, concerts and recitals, meetings and seminars.

The SS China Cabin consists of a large room and two small staterooms. Its plain exterior belies the ornate and regal appointments inside. The SS China was restored in 1986 and over $600,000 was spent to bring this historic site back to its impressive glory!

The walls and arched ceiling are panels of elaborately decorated wood that have been painted a crisp white and highlighted with gold leaf. Along the sides of the SS China Cabin are a series of small, delicately etched glass windows; handsome crystal chandeliers hang at each end of the room.

The SS China Cabin also has decks on three sides that have wonderful views of the San Francisco skyline and of the colorful boats berthed at the nearby yacht harbor. The SS China Cabin offers a glimpse of old-world elegance and attention to detail; the result is a rich, sophisticated appearance that makes this a unique setting for a special wedding, rehearsal dinner, meeting and private or corporate party.

The SS China Cabin has experienced a long and colorful life. In 1866, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company commissioned the construction of the SS China, a sidewheel steamer, for a route between San Francisco and the Far East. Unfortunately, with a wooden hull, the ship was destined for a short career and was considered obsolete by 1886. Before it was burned for scrap metal, the first-class social saloon was removed intact from the ship, barged to Belvedere Cove and set on pilings. Transformed into a weekend home, it became known as the China Cabin. And, in 1978, it was designated as a national maritime treasure and restored to its former splendor as a Victorian drawing room.

Reservations and Further Information
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Conditions of Use
Occupancy is strictly limited to 55 persons, except when use of the deck and type of the event might allow the total to be 65. Decorations are limited to flowers suitable to the site. No smoking, candles, nor inflammables are allowed indoors or on the deck. From April through October on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, the China Cabin is open to the public as an historic site.

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Landmarks Art & Garden Center - 1870

This restored bunkhouse/farm cottage includes two galleries for exhibits and receptions. Together with an acre of terraced gardens and views of Richardson Bay and Mt. Tamalpias, it makes a lovely setting for outdoor weddings in Marin, outdoor or indoor memorial services, luncheons, dinners, meetings & seminars.

From the lawn of the Center you have a wonderful panoramic bay view, which sweeps from Sausalito to Strawberry Point and Mt. Tamalpais in Marin. The main buiding is a lovingly renovated house and property from Tiburon's earliest years, that is now a superb setting for outdoor weddings and special events.

After your event, join your guests for an old-fashioned game of croquet!

The square-acre site, with its commanding vista of Richardson Bay, is a garden composed of four terraces, with the house nestled to one side and a rose arbor on the other. The terraces are joined by curving brick walkways and ascend a gentle hillside in the following order: a lush lawn, a bricked area, an oval terrace, and a belvedere at the top. Each of these lovely outdoor spaces-all of which have an extensive view of the water and southern Marin's steep hills-works extremely well as a site for a ceremony or reception.

The Center had been untended and overgrown until a landscape architect and a brigade of green-thumbed volunteers descended on it in 2000. Original redwoods, oaks, elms, walnut and fruit trees, and blooming hedges are now augmented by new plantings of crabapples, weeping cherries, Japanese maples, and colorful beds of azaleas, camellias, roses, lilacs and seasonal flowers.

Birds love the improvements-you can hear them chirping everywhere. Halfway up the hillside is a touch of whimsy, an old ocher and green pagoda-shaped birdhouse from the Victorian era appropriately called a "folly." A cool, shady grove of redwoods behind the house has branches that shelter three loveseat-sized benches.

The other star of the Center is the restored farm house, built in the 1870s and once part of a working-class neighborhood in the days when Tiburon was a railroad terminal. The cottage, clad in gray shingles with rough cedar shakes on the roof, features a sun-filled living room that opens to the original kitchen and adjoining sitting area. A small wedding or reception would fit nicely here, surrounded by the rough-hewn charm of the meticulously restored walls and floors. (The walls are a permanent art gallery, featuring exhibitions of paintings by local artists that change through the year.) Just outside the kitchen door, there's a handsomely refurbished farmyard bell that newlyweds' friends often toll in celebration-another one of the old-fashioned touches that contribute to this facility's welcoming atmosphere.

If your imagination has been taking you to a quiet, sunny spot with abundant greenery and scenery, you'll undoubtedly experience a pleasing sense of déjaˆ vu when you actually set foot in the Landmarks Art and Garden Center.

Reservations and Further Information
Please contact the Rental Coordinator at the Landmarks Society Message Center, 415-435-1853  extension 2, or email lmsrentals@sbcglobal.net.

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Conditions of Use
The total occupancy of the cottage is 55 persons including guests, caterers and musicians. Use of the garden increases the number of persons up to 150. Parking at the center is limited and by permit only. Guests must be shuttled from a pre-arranged parking area. No smoking is permitted in the cottage or on the grounds. No music is permitted after 10 p.m. From April through October, on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, the cottage and the garden are open to the public for viewing.