Immaculate 1902 Victorian rising above Loomis is a rare Sacramento area listing

Known as Pendleton Hyholme, a fabulous and rare 1902 Queen Anne Victorian near Loomis makes an immediate impression — as it has done so for nearly 125 years.

Meticulously restored, the Queen Anne sits high on a hill above the landscape with unmatched views of Placer County, Folsom Lake, the foothills and the Sierra. The property, at 7257 Surrette Lane, is for sale for just under $4 million.

“Hyholme’s architectural beauty captivates (with) distinctive gables, graceful turrets, classic porch columns, ornate balusters and railings, copper finials, and an inviting wrap-around veranda,” the property listing states.

The three-acre estate is wrapped in mature trees, flowering shrubs and terraced garden paths that create a lush, almost forested feel, opening to lawns. The property listing calls the grounds a “magical setting for twilight strolls and gatherings under the stars.”

Destination spaces include the pool and gazebo, lighted tennis court, koi pond with cascading waterfalls and a fenced pasture with barn and loft that offer possibilities for hobbies and equestrian uses.

Listing agent Austin Soldano of Guide Real Estate says the location is still one of the Pendleton Hyholme’s defining traits — and it has many. Hyholme is the old English spelling of “high home.”

“They called it the high home because it was the highest home on the hill,” Soldano said. “They picked it for the views. It’s beautiful. It’s unreal.”

Soldano, who’s co-listing the property with his father Dan Soldano, said the combination of architecture, acreage and long‑term stewardship sets Hyholme apart.

“People that come here and see the pictures — I’ve heard people say it looks like Disneyland, or it’s a museum, but there’s nothing like this in Loomis,” he said. “You see Victorians in Sacramento, but you don’t get a Victorian house with three acres with the koi ponds, the pools, the tennis court. It’s nothing like you see in Loomis. It’s completely different.”

During a recent broker tour, Soldano said one visitor’s reaction stood out.

“She loves Victorians,” he said. “She started crying while she was in here. There’s so much — you can tell there’s so much that has gone on in this house, and the love that’s poured in this house.”

Recalling Tuscany

Longtime Pendleton Hyholme owner Dan Haley added his own comparison of the view:

“If you look out the back side of the house, that’s what Italy looks like. Every time I go out there I immediately remember Tuscany.”

The large home — 6,000 square feet with seven bedrooms and five bathrooms — flows easily from room to room, and up and down three levels. With the historic estate on the market for the first time in 50 years, potential buyers get an opportunity to live in an authentic Victorian mansion that lives comfortably in the modern world.

“It’s what you call a combination of luxury and character,” Haley said.

The estate’s architecture and roots are notably distinguishable from the town’s newly built Mediterranean mansions. Loomis lies along Interstate 80 in the Sierra Nevada foothills, 25 miles northeast of Sacramento.

For nearly 50 years, the home has been in the hands of Haley, a former CPA and lifelong tennis player, and his late wife, Glenna, who bought the property in 1976 and spent decades restoring it.

“We really bought it cheap in today’s dollars,” Haley said, “but it was 15 years of (grueling) labor and fortunes to restore.”

The historic estate is a rare survivor from Loomis’ early ties to fruit orchards and packing after first being settled by gold miners. In the 1860s, the Central Pacific Railroad laid tracks, which allowed for crops to be transported to market.

The home’s first owner, pioneer William Courtland Pendleton, was an Englishman of modest means until he inherited a substantial fortune in the late 1800s and built Hyholme on the Loomis ridgetop. The property below was ideal for peach orchards.

“At that time they picked what they considered the panorama,” Haley said. “They could see everything.”

The Pendleton family retained Hyholme until 1915, and the grand home passed through various other owners. During the 1960s, the Victorian stood vacant for six months and was heavily damaged by vandals.

Falling for faded Victorian

When Dan and Glenna first encountered Hyholme, they weren’t looking for another project. They were already restoring a bungalow in Folsom when an old aerial photo changed everything.

“This lady … had an aerial photograph of this house on her wall, because she had sold it,” Haley recalled. “My wife fell in love with the picture … for weeks she talked about it.”

Eventually, he gave in.

“In a moment of weakness, I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’ I drove up here ... Back then it was just a dirt driveway, and I looked up at the house, and then I fell in love with it.”

The romance came with plenty of reality. The home had been through foreclosure and hard use, and parts of it had been stripped.

“The day we closed was October 31, Halloween night,” Haley said. “I came up here Halloween night and slept in a sleeping bag by myself with a cat running down the piano keys,” Haley said. “The house had literally been ripped off. It was a total redo. The great thing about the house is it had great bones.”

Much of that ornate exterior has been painstakingly rebuilt.

“Just the sheer enormity of the things we’ve done — you see the railings out here and the top rails and those bottom rails all around the porch,” Haley said. “We originally ordered … like 1,500 spindles, those turnings. We had to take those top railings out of the old holes and make new holes and put the spindles in.”

Even the rough-shawn, interlocking siding bears his handiwork.

“See that siding there? That’s shiplap siding … but it doesn’t come with that groove on it,” he says. “I actually sat out here with a little table and routed every one of those grooves … because that was what was on the house.”

Inside, the home balances historic detail with modern livability. The main floor includes a stately foyer, grand living room and a spacious formal dining room illuminated by two chandeliers, ideal for holidays and large gatherings. A richly appointed library/office with built‑ins and a billiard room with pocket doors echo the Victorian era’s love of formal entertaining.

Dramatic staircase

The dramatic main staircase, rebuilt by a specialty millwork shop, became a project of its own.

“We had them mill all of these pieces, and they are like the originals, but they’re bigger,” Haley said. “It’s just how it used to look. It took the guys six weeks to put that stairwell in, trying to figure out the gooseneck (railing). The guys who make all of this, they did it exactly right.”

Throughout the house, the original heart‑redwood trim and paneling were preserved and, in many cases, painted on the advice of Haley’s designer, Virginia Scofield.

“All these things here are heart redwood — I’m talking 10-year, kiln-dried heart redwood,” he said. “I said, ‘I’m not painting that, I’ll stain it, but I’m not going to paint it,’” he remembered. “Finally, I caved in, and she was right — it looks better painted.”

Although the architecture reads 1902, the large modern kitchen is designed for 21st‑century cooking and gathering. It blends custom cabinetry and leaded‑glass details with a layout that opens to a cozy sitting area and a charming butler’s pantry.

Upstairs, a reconfigured primary suite features unusual triple‑hung windows open onto an upper veranda — a detail rarely seen outside large Victorians.

Below the main level, an interior staircase leads to a 750-bottle basement wine cellar, custom‑built in redwood to match the rest of the home.

Haley estimates he’s invested around $2 million over the years — not including his own labor.

“Once we had such a wonderful house, we just kept making it better,” he said.

This story was originally published May 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM.

David Caraccio

The Sacramento Bee

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