Sunday, October 24, 2010

CARMEL REGISTER OF HISTORIC RESOURCES

ABSTRACT: The Carmel Register of Historic Resources is presented, including residential properties, commercial properties and City-owned properties. Information for each historic resource includes Historic Name, Physical Location, Significance, Date Registered and photo. Currently there are a total of thirty-one historic resources, including twenty-seven residences, three commercial properties and two City-owned properties.

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES
Historic Name: Shellooe Hse. (Periwinkle-Sea Urchin)
Physical Location: Scenic Road 3 N.E. 12th Avenue
Significance: Cultural Heritage of Carmel
Date Registered: 3/13/2002

Historic Name: Murhpy/Powers Barn
Physical Location: N. San Antonio Avenue 3 N.W. 4th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 2, Person
Date Registered: 11/17/1993

Historic Name:La Canzone del Mar” (The Song of the Sea)
Physical Location: Carmelo Street & 7th Avenue N.W. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture, Spanish Eclectic
Date Registered: 2/28/2005

Historic Name: J. Kluegel House
Physical Location: Camino Real 4 N.E. Ocean Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture, Monterey Colonial Revival
Date Registered: 9/10/2003

Historic Name: Elspeth Rose Cottage
Physical Location: N. Casanova Street & Palou Avenue N. Corner
California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; “Storybook” Style of Designer/Builder Hugh Comstock
Date Registered: 8/11/1993

Historic Name: C. Halstead Yates Cottage
Physical Location: Ocean Avenue & Casanova Street N.W. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3 Architecture
Date Registered: 3/19/2007

Historic Name: Helen Brown Studio
Physical Location: Casanova Street 2 S.W. 10th Avenue
Significance: Cultural History and Architecture
Date Registered: 4/11/2001

Historic Name: Connolly-Search House
Physical Location: Casanova Street & 13th Avenue N.E. Corner
Significance: California Register Criteria 2, 3; Person, Architecture
Frederick Wills Search (1853-1932) Educator and Community Activist
Early Example of Carmel’s Residential Architecture
Date Registered: 7/19/2010

Historic Name: Gertrude McCaslin House
Physical Location: Monte Verde Street 2 N.E. 5th Avenue
Significance: California Criterion 3, Architecture; Craftsman Bungalow
Date Registered: 2/28/2005

Historic Name: Meade House
Physical Location: Monte Verde Street 2 S.W. 5th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Craftsman
Date Registered: 8/14/2002

Historic Name: Sinclair Lewis House
Physical Location: Monte Verde Street 2 N.W. 9th Avenue
Significance: California Criteria 2,3; Person, Architecture
Author Sinclair Lewis
Architecture
Date Registered: 10/8/1997

Historic Name: Bark House
Physical Location: Monte Verde Street & 13th Avenue N.W. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Original Building Design by a Woman, Mrs. J.S. Cone and Constructed by La Von Gottfried
Date Registered: 11/12/1997


Historic Names: DDH-by-the-Sea (Elizabeth F. Armstrong Hse. #2)
Physical Location: Lincoln Street 3 N.W. 9th Avenue
Significance: California Register 3, Architecture; English Arts and Crafts Style by Architect C.J. Ryland
Date Registered: 10/17/2005

Historic Name: Danmeyer House
Physical Location: Lincoln Street 3 N.E. 11th Avenue
Significance: California Criterion 3, Architecture; Tudor Revival Style
Date Registered: 5/10/2000

Historic Name: Charles Sumner Greene Studio
Physical Location: Lincoln Street 4 S.W. 13th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Independent and Eclectic Building Design by Architect Charles Summer Greene (Greene’s residence/studio 1923-1957)
Date Registered: 6/12/1996


Historic Name: Norman Reynolds House
Physical Location: Dolores Street & 11th Avenue N.W. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; “The Honeymoon Cottage,” Architects Wallace Neff and Robert Stanton (1934-1935), First Pre-Fabricated House in the Western U.S.
Date Registered: 8/2/2002

Historic Name: Marchen House
Physical Location: Dolores Street & 11th Avenue N.E. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Tudor Storybook by Designer/Builder Hugh Comstock
Date Registered: 10/17/2005

Historic Name: H. Markham House
Physical Location: 13th Avenue & Dolores Street N.E. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; International Style
Date Registered: 8/18/2004

Historic Name: Perry Newberry Cottage
Physical Location: Vista Avenue 2 N.E. Mission Street
Significance: California Register Criteria 2, 3; Person and Architecture
Designed by Perry Newberry
Vernacular Cottage Design with Craftsman Style Features
Date Registered: 12/10/2003

Historic Name:Casa Della Comedia
Physical Location: San Carlos Street 2 N.E. Santa Lucia Avenue
Significance: California Register Criteria 2,3, Person and Architecture
Dr. Alfred E. Burton and Lena Yates Burton, Supporters of Arts and Culture in Carmel
Eclectic Craftsman Design in Early 1920s
Date Registered: 6/28/2004

Historic Name: Mary McDowell House
Physical Location: Mission Street 2 S.E. 11th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; French Eclectic Pictorial Form
Date Registered: 10/11/1995

Historic Name: M.J. Murphy Spec. House
Physical Location: 11th Avenue 2 N.W. Mission Street
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Version of Early Craftsman by Carmel Master Builder M. J. Murphy
Date Registered: 7/18/2005

Historic Name: Celia Seymour Studio/House
Physical Location: Junipero Avenue 3 N.W. 12th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criteria 2, 3; Person and Architecture
Celia Burnham Seymour Kent (1869 – 1958)
Design by a Woman in the 1920s
Date Registered: 9/10/2003

Historic Name: Talbert Josselyn House
Physical Location: Santa Rita Street 7 S.E. Ocean Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 2, Person; Local Noveliest and Writer Talbert Josselyn (1886 – 1961)
Date Registered: 1/31/2005

Historic Name: William Muench Cottage
Physical Location: Guadalupe Street 3 N.E. 6th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Design of Noted Builder Earl Percy Parker (1884 – 1955)
Date Registered: 5/8/2002

Historic Name: Kathryn Waite House
Physical Location: Carpenter Street & 5th Avenue N.E. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Cape Cod Style
Date Registered: 9/18/2005

POST-ALTERATION, October 2010: Substantial Alternation, Addition of Skylights, Inconsistent with the Secretary of Interior Standards

PRE-SUBSTANTIAL ALTERATIONS: Original "Historic" Appearance
Historic Name: Dr. Herman Spoehr House
Physical Location: Crespi Avenue 3 S.W. Mt. View Avenue
Significance: California Register Criteria 2, 3; Person and Architecture
American Plant Physiologist Dr. Herman A. Spoehr, Carmel Branch, Carnegie Institute of Washington
High Style Tudor Revival
Date Registered: 5/13/1998

COMMERICIAL PROPERTIES
Historic Name: Spinning Wheel
Physical Location: Monte Verde Street 3 S.E. Ocean Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Architect Edwin L. Snyder
Date Registered: 6/26/2006

Historic Name: Sundial Lodge
Physical Location: Monte Verde Street 2 N.E. 7th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Albert Farr, Late 1920s and Early 1930s, Original Exterior Appearance
Date Registered: 9/10/2003

View along Lincoln Street

View along 7th Avenue
Historic Name: La Ribera Hotel
Physical Location: Lincoln Street & 7th Avenue N.E. Corner
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Spanish Eclectic, Architectural Firm Blaine and Olsen
Date Registered: 6/9/1999

CITY-OWNED PROPERTIES
Historic Name: Sunset Center
Physical Location: E/s San Carlos Street between 8th Avenue & 10th Avenue
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Late Gothic Revival, 1925 - 1949) (National Register of Historic Places, Local Significance, 1998)


Historic Name: Paul Flanders Mansion (Outlands in the Eighty Acres)
Physical Location: 25800 Hatton Road
Significance: California Register Criterion 3, Architecture; Henry H. Gutterson, Innovative Method of Construction (National Register of Historic Places, Local Significance, 1989) Gutterson,Henry Higby; Ruhl,Frederick; 1924
Date Registered: 4/9/1997

ADDENDUM:
Criteria for Designation
Associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local or regional history or the cultural heritage of California or the United States (Criterion 1).

Associated with the lives of persons important to local, California or national history (Criterion 2).

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 (Criterion 3).

Has yielded, or has the potential to yield, information important to the prehistory or history of the local area, California or the nation (Criterion 4).

2 comments:

Linda Hartong said...

What wonderful documentation in your blog. I appreciate all your work and information and refer to it constantly

VillageinForest said...

Welcome to the Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG! Linda Hartong. Thank you for your comments and taking the time to view the blog. It’s great to have a Kansan reading the WATCHDOG!