The San Mateo County History Museum is located in downtown Redwood City, California.

[4] The former courthouse building is a product of the City Beautiful Movement (1893-1920) and has a stained-glass dome thought to be the largest of its kind on the West Coast.

Then in 1998, seeking larger and more publicly accessible quarters, the Historical Association's board of directors decided to move the Museum into the old courthouse in downtown Redwood City.

It maintains a creative schedule of changing exhibits at the San Mateo County History Museum.

[citation needed] The Woodside Store was constructed in 1854 by pioneer dentist Robert Orville Tripp and Mathias Parkhurst.

Lobbying efforts of the Historical Association inspired the county to obtain the five-acre site for a park in the 1940s.

Today, the County and the Historical Association are working on a master plan to improve the interpretive value of this unique location.