Resource Name: Wells Fargo Bank
Location: E/s San Carlos St. between Ocean Av. & 7th Av.
The following “Historic Resource” is less than 50 years old. Standards of the National Register of Historic Resources and the California Register of Historic Resources allow for consideration of resources less than 50 years old, when a structure is of “exceptional importance.” (National Register Bulletin Number 22: Guidelines for Evaluating and Nominating Properties That Have Achieved Significance Within The Past Fifty Years states that “Properties that have achieved significance within the past 50 years may be listed in the national Register of Historic Places, according to the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, only if they are of “exceptional importance,...”)
10. Wells Fargo Bank 1965 E/s San Carlos bet. Ocean Av. & 7th Av.
“Frank Lloyd Wright Influence”
Architect: Olof Dahlstrand, Cornell University '38, BArch '39.
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. Olof Dahlstrand studied at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and has been one of Carmel-by-the-Sea’s most significant local architects.
As an architect, he worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and in private practice. In Carmel-by-the-Sea, some of his works include the Wells Fargo Bank, the Carmel Plaza and Carmel’s Stonehouse Terrace.
As an artist, Olof Dahlstrand, a member of the Carmel Art Association, has been a member since 1984. The Carmel Art Association, the second oldest operating non-profit artist cooperative in the United States, features “paintings and sculpture by over 120 of the area's most noted professional artists living on the Central Coast.” Highlights of his exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art (now the Monterey Museum of Art)and the Milwaukee Art Institute. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art and the Colonial Monterey Foundation.
As a resident of Carmel-by-the-Sea, he served as a Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council Member, Planning Commission Chair and Member, General Plan Committee Member and a Design Traditions Project Member; a Carmel-by-the-Sea service record totaling 38 years.
Sources:
A Significant Building Survey for the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea, By the Monterey Architecture Resource Inventory, R. Janick, L. Boone, K. Seavy, January 1979.
“Carmel's 2005 Citizen of the Year is Olof Dahlstrand,” Carmel Residents Association, CRA News March 2006.
Carmel Art Association, http://www.carmelart.org/about_new.html.
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