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).