Resource Name: Murphy Barn/Powers Studio
Location: San Antonio Av. between 2nd Av. & 4th Av.
3. Murphy Barn/Powers Studio
W/s San Antonio bet. 2nd Av. & 4th Av.
Date Construction: 1846
Architectural Style: “Hand-Hewn Logs and Adobe”
Builder: Mathew Murphy
Significance: California Register of Historical Resources criterion (2) is associated with the lives of persons important to local, California or national history and (3) embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction or represents the work of a master or possesses high artistic values. Originally part of the Murphy homestead, San Francisco attorney Frank Hubbard Powers, co-founder of Carmel-by-the-Sea with J. Franklin Devendorf, purchased the property in 1904. The dream of Frank Powers and his wife, Jane Gallatin Powers, was to create in Carmel “an artist’s empire for the soul.” The structure is hand-hewn and squared log construction; known as a “Midland Log House.”
Source: Carmel-by-the-Sea, Historic Survey, 1989-96
Inventory of Significant Historic Buildings
By The Carmel Preservation Foundation
Director Enid Sales
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