No. 6 - James Johnson House

525 F Street

James Madison Johnson brought his family to Chula Vista from New Hampshire in 1888. He purchased a five-acre lot, built this Victorian-style house and planted the remainder of the site in lemon trees. Johnson became a well-known orchardist and the inventor of a lemon-washing machine. His daughter, Flora, who was actively involved in the Chula Vista Congregational Church, was the city's first PTA president and the first president of the Reading Room Association. She married a neighbor, Elmer E. Flanders, on December 31, 1891.

After James Johnson died in 1905, Flora and Elmer Flanders made this house their home. The lemon orchard succumbed to the infamous frost of 1913.

The house is significant as one of the few surviving orchard houses in Chula Vista and as the former home of a prominent pioneer family.