Magee Park in Carlsbad Village is a 2.1-acre historic park on Beech Avenue, steps from the ocean, anchored by the 1887 Magee House built by Samuel Church Smith, one of the founders of the Carlsbad Land & Water Company. The house now serves as the museum and archive headquarters of the Carlsbad Historical Society, which conducts tours of the Craftsman-style structure and maintains the surrounding heritage campus. Heritage Hall, constructed in 1926 as the original sanctuary of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and later repurposed as Carlsbad's first City Hall and police station, stands alongside the Shipley-Magee Barn—the oldest surviving barn in Carlsbad—and the Twin Inns Granary. The L. John Simons Twin Inns Gazebo and a nationally registered rose garden recognized by the American Rose Society in 2002 make the park a destination for weddings and ceremonies. Volunteers from the California Coastal Rose Society maintain more than 125 rose varieties across 15 families, complemented by a Victorian herb bed, a native Southern California bed, and a commercial growers' bed that reflects the agricultural corridor shared with Harbor Fish Cafe on Carlsbad Village Drive. The park's five front garden beds were planted in 1998 by the Carlsbad Arboretum Foundation and are maintained through a joint volunteer effort with the Historical Society and city staff on the first Saturday of each month.