It was a sweltering day in 1913 when the house caught fire and burnt to the ground, leaving the volcanic rock skeleton park visitors see today. The fire was attributed to spontaneous combustion, and probably originated with a pile of oily rags.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> The author’s original typewriter is one of hundreds of artifacts that will have to be catalogued, carefully packaged and placed in storage if the park shuts down due to dwindling funds from the state.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> Visitors are greeted by a model of the Snark, the wooden ketch Jack London built to sail around the world in 1906. After departing San Francisco Bay, the crew was met with heavy rainstorms, the boat began to leak, and London fell ill.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> A $1.7 million grant from the parks department in 2005 allowed park curators to transform the Londons' empty cottage into a museum exhibit, showcasing Jack London’s office and writing nook.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> Lou Leal, a longtime docent of Jack London State Historic Park in Sonoma County, tells visitors the history behind the ruins of Jack London's Wolf House.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> Now a park museum, the House of Happy Walls was a brick-and-stone dwelling erected by Charmian London three years after her husband’s death by kidney failure in 1916. It was one of the first sites open to the public in 1960.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> Park curators sifted through hundreds of pages of notes and correspondences from the author’s friends and family to reconstruct his living space, down to the cigarettes he smoked late into the night and the aluminum flask and drink shaker by his bed.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span> Jack London’s writing and sleeping space was sparsely furnished. According to Leal, he slept separately from Charmian due to his smoking habits and erratic hours.<span class='em small'><br/>Credit: Erik Verduzco</span>