The A. Berding Home is a historic Carpenter Gothic Victorian style house with Italianate accents built by pioneer merchant Arnold Berding in 1875[2] at 455 Ocean Avenue in Ferndale, Humboldt County, California is also called "The Gum Drop Tree House" from the neatly trimmed row of 150 year old[3] cypresses in front.

[2] Born in Germany in 1826,[4] Berding arrived in Humboldt County by a route that included Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, and the California Gold Rush mining camps.

[5] After selling the Centerville businesses, Berding spent a short time in Oregon, returning to Ferndale in 1866 and opening the first merchandise store in town.

[2] The small residence they built in 1868 was moved around the corner and replaced with the current house where the Berdings had four more children together.

The newspaper reports regular trips to San Francisco and in 1904, that Mary Berding and daughter Christina traveled across the United States to attend the St. Louis Exposition, and visit relatives from Illinois to Idaho.