HIGHLIGHTS of National Register of Historic Places Nomination
Form:
Name of Property
historic name: OUTLANDS IN THE EIGHTY ACRES
other names/site number FLANDERS; PAUL MANSION
Areas of Significance: Architecture
Period of Significance: 1924-1925
Architect/Builder
Gutterson, Henry Higby
Ruhl, Frederick
Significance
The Paul
Flanders Mansion Carmel Carmel Mission and Carmel
Bay
Setting
Architect Gutterson carefully sited "Outlands" on
a hillside overlooking the Carmel
Valley Cypress Carmel By-the-Sea, the property has
become part of the Mission
Trails Park
Gutterson had been trained at the University
of California , Berkeley
and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
Architecture
"Outlands" is an impressive example of Gutterson's
mature work.
Method of Construction
Although cavity wall construction was well known throughout
the United States , its
employment was not common to California California California
The Flanders residence in Carmel , California California conditions clearly making it worthy of
retention as a historical record of California
National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form
“Outlands” Historic Photographs
ADDENDUM:
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION (Letter)
…the National Trust for Historic Preservation would like to
reiterate our strong support for keeping the property in public ownership. As one of only two Carmel
properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Flanders mansion is a community asset and should be accessible
to all.
Throughout its history the “village in the forest by the
sea,” as Carmel Flanders Mansion
The
National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's
historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic
Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of
Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public
and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America
MISSION
The mission of the Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) and
the State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC) is to provide leadership and
promote the preservation of California
6 comments:
On the issue of Flanders Mansion, Pepe's website statements have continued to change.
In January his position on Flanders included this statement: "Yet today the property is a legal burden and financial drain. A final decision to keep it, lease it or sell it must be made."
By March, the statement about being a legal and financial burden was removed from his website and replaced with "must end the long legal battle." And the phrase "sell it" was removed and replaced with "return it to private ownership".
Pepe will say whatever is expedient to get elected. He obviously has been getting some blowback on his positions so he and his handlers have been finessing his public statements.
Pepe may say he is not in favor of selling city assets, but what do you think "return it (Flanders Mansion) to private ownership" means?
By relying just on the Pine Cone newspaper, you will not get the complete story. And, if you had not been at the Pine Cone forum, then you missed out on Victoria Beach's point.
Victoria stated what everyone has been thinking, no matter what side of the Flanders issue you are on. Her comments related to the fact that Flanders was purchased by the city in the early, early 1970's.
So it is true that Carmel has been struggling with Flanders fate for 40 years, nearly Victoria's entire life (she's 46). No one wants the Flanders matter to drag on another 40 years, or in Victoria's words, another lifetime. Everyone wants a resolution and to move beyond all this.
Victoria Beach is absolutely right.
To state that the City “has been struggling with Flanders fate for 40 years” is misleading. Over the last forty years, the City purchased the 15-acre Flanders Estate parcel in 1972 for $275,000, the Mansion has been utilized as a residence for a city administrator, local businessman and caretaker, by the Arboretum Committee, Carmel Historic Survey Committee, Carmel Heritage Society and Carmel Art Institute. In the 1990s the Alliance on Aging held a Design Showcase which was open to the public.
It was so refreshing to see one of the mayoral candidates, Rich Pepe, indicate they don't feel city owned property and parkland should be sold. Jason Burnet is wrong for wanting to sell Flanders Mansion at all costs.
Over the last twelve years, Melanie Billig (President, Flanders Foundation) and the Flanders Foundation have contacted the City expressing an interest in negotiating a long-term lease of the Flanders Mansion.
Over her twelve-year tenure, Mayor Sue McCloud has not even acknowledged correspondence from the Flanders Foundation, much less made a good faith effort to have discussions with Flanders Foundation representatives regarding a lease of the Flanders Mansion.
EIR (environmental impact report) costs were the first taxpayer expenditures approved by the city council for the sale of Flanders Mansion due to CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act); legal costs were in response to city council violations of law, including the City’s violation of the city’s municipal code with regard to the maintenance and upkeep of an historic resource and the City’s violation of the legal requirement to hold a public vote for the sale of parkland.
Ergo, the Flanders Mansion “controversy” has been a self-fulfilling, manufactured, prophesy engineered by Mayor McCloud. Carmel residents cognizant of the aforementioned facts and Carmel voters who voted to authorize the city council to sell Flanders Mansion are therefore complicit in the mayor’s subterfuge; subterfuge Council Member Burnett is perpetuating with his hard-line sell Flanders Mansion position.
The position to sell Flanders Mansion has now come from the voters who overwhelmingly said to sell it. It has been Jason's position for two years that it is his responsibility to carry out the will of the voters. I have never heard him state what he would have actually preferred because it no longer matters and now is a moot point.
It is unfortunate that Mayor McCloud never gave anyone with Flanders Foundation the time of day. It is also unfortunate that Melanie Billig wanted the matter taken to a public vote on whether to sell. She got her answer.
And since the matter will likely have to come to a vote again, you will still see overwhelming support for the sale of Flanders.
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