Today the Hinds House is a historical inn with rooms rented out to guests visiting or relocating to Santa Cruz.

[2] His sister Amelia Hinds married Duncan McPherson, publisher of the local newspaper Santa Cruz Sentinel.

He was active in the California Republican Party and helped organize the Avalon Lodge number 89 of the Knights of Pythias.

Alfred Hinds and his wife Sarah had four children who were all lost when a diphtheria epidemic swept Santa Cruz in 1876.

Electricity came from Fred Swanton's new power plant fifteen miles up the coast from Santa Cruz in Davenport, California.

The interiors of the house were also fixed up in this time, including the renovation of the sitting room and parlor on the first floor as apartments.

In 2004 Brion Sprinsock and Kristine Albrecht purchased the property and operate the Hinds Victorian Guest House offering weekly lodging in downtown Santa Cruz.

On August 25, 1983, the house was put on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Cruz County, California by the United States Department of the Interior.

[1] The Hinds House has been a historic bed and breakfast inn since 1982 and today it is the best example of William's Stick-Eastlake style buildings in Santa Cruz County.