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1044 Catherine St.

Built by a sea-captain named La Monge around 1890. In 1904 it was remodeled to serve as a boarding house for PG&E employees.

Years later it was owned by Norbert Garrick, who died in in an upstairs bedroom. His son Cy maintained the house after that, before selling it in 1967 to Fred Raynor.

I spoke to Fred and his son Dan, and was informed of a supernatural aspect of the house. It seems the ghost of Norbert Garrick wanders through from time to time, dressed in farmers overalls. When Fred's brother visited the house for the first time, the first words out of his mouth were, "You know there's a ghost in the house." Fred's reply was, "We thought so."

In addition to being a documented haunted house, it served, at various times, as the first Alviso city hall, a bordello, and a post office.

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