HR Booklet 2010-Final

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Picture it. A 1911 Emily Williams designed home that has been in the same family since it was built. Or a 1926 bungalowaround the elderly owner’s shoulders but rescued by current owners, who are restoring this pink cottage to its youthful bla 1949 post adobe, the kind that made Comstock famous, and is both charming and contemporary. Or a 1905 Victorian, warchitect melded the old with the new in a remodel that honors its heritage and heart. And a 1908 Victorian awash with smasks its youth but has become a fun California bungalow. Plus a 2007 modern marvel that won the Heritage Home awaconstruction. This is Paci c Grove, the “Last Hometown,” whose history and heritage are, once again, on exhibit througannual Paci c Grove Historic Home Tour.In the late 1800s when the grounds of the Paci c Grove Methodist Retreat were being developed into a residential commucabins became cottages, and the tourists began building a town. Residents could not have imagined that, more than 100 their humble homes would make the historic register. Yet every year, the Paci c Grove Heritage Society, founded in 1976 appreciation of the historical and architectural merits of this coastal haven, honors these houses with its annual Home To Join us for the Tour where guests can wander inside each of six featured homes, eight historic structures and down the hhistory. And there is a story living inside each one.

AcknowledgementsThe Paci c Grove Chamber of Commerce and the Paci c GroveHeritage Society extend a special thanks to the homeowners for their generosity in sharing their homes in this year’s Historic HomeTour. And thank you to the businesses and individuals who giveso generously to this event: Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, photographer Sonia Cook, writers Jeff Becom and SarahDiehl, Paci c Grove Florist, and the Heritage Society Board of Directors. We further acknowledge the many volunteers from thePaci c Grove Chamber of Commerce, the Paci c Grove HeritageSociety and all tour participants who take an interest in our historiccommunity.

Historic properties that retain original archi-tectural features may not be accessible to all.If you have special access needs, please call(831) 373-3304.

No interior photographs or high heels, please!Socks or soft-soled shoes with booties (supplied)over shoes required.

Houses and buildings may be viewed in any order.

The 42nd Annual Historic Home Tour

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Chautauqua HallS 1881Originally a cultural center and meetinghouse, Chautauqua Hall is a bigstanding in the middle of the old Retreat area. Its simple board and batteture, one story with very high ceilings, served the Retreat well in the rst an indoor meeting place (until the large Methodist Church was built in 188place to store the tent covers in the winter. When the Chautauqua Movement looked for a venue in the 1890’s, the large meeting hall was selected and goname, Chautauqua Hall. An article in an 1896 edition of the San Francisco Chronic

mentioned an “enthusiastic Republican rally was held at the old ChautauquPaci c Grove.”

In the 1920’s the City purchased the building from the Del Monte Properties for $2,500 for use by the Boy Scouts and other organizations for young peop1930’s the building was moved 25 feet to permit the widening of Central Aan extension was built on the rear of the building. During this period the was also re-wired, re-plumbed, and re-shingled. The hall continues to be u

variety of community purposes, including the Boy Scouts, dancing, lectures, and town meetings.

During the Home Tour, Chautauqua Hall will hold the9th Annual Artists in Chautauqua, featuring art and crafts by more thandozen local artists, refreshments, live music, and a silent auction.

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Heritage Houses for the BirdsMAP n2Elmarie Dyke Park, adjacent to Chautauqua Hall, will host an exhibit of handmade birdhouses, all available for purchase thrHeritage Houses for the Birds silent auction.

Pacic Grove Free LibraryS 1908The Paci c Grove Subscription Library was originally established in 1886 with 100 bOld Parlor.” It moved 2 years later to the Octagon Museum Building, sharing spacmuseum and had a total of 25 paying patrons. The library moved to its present locati1908, becoming Monterey County’s rst free library with a membership of more than 50

A grant of $10,000 for building the new library was provided by Andrew CarneCarnegie Corporation under two conditions: the local community had to provide asite and formally agree to continuously support the library through local tax funds. TImprovement Company and its president, Horace G. Platt, donated the land for the libMission style building was designed by the McDougall Brothers architectural rm ofcisco. The laying of the library cornerstone in November 1907 was accompanied by civil ceremonies” with an audience of about 2,000 attendees. Many of the businessclosed so that all could attend.

The library has been remodeled four times: in 1926, 1938, 1950 and 1978. The readthe library is the last “untouched” room. The original arched windows, with much of the original glass, are still intact.

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500 Central Avenu

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300 Forest Avenue

City Hall, built in 1912, was designed by William H. Weeks, an incredibly proli carchitect from Watsonville and built by the Chivers Brothers rm for $6,000 payablein gold. City Hall, the rst reinforced concrete public building in Monterey county,originally housed city of ces, the re and police departments, as well as a tiny jail cell. The tower was used in part to dry re hoses but later enclosed for safety reasons. Look carefully and you can see the original rehouse doors and the barsover the window of the jail cell.

Ketcham’s BarnS c. 1891The Barn, home of the Heritage Society of Paci c Grove since 1981, was probably built in 1891. In 1980, theCity of Paci c Grove purchased the Barn and the adjoining lot. That same year, the City leased the Barn tothe 5-year-old Heritage Society in return for the Society’s promise to restore and maintain it. The restoration,undertaken by general contractor Steve Honegger from plans by architect Ed. Bredthauer, was completed a year later, supported by grants from three foundations, contributions from 172 individuals, 12 businesses, and various Heritage Society fund raising activities.

The restoration preserved the character of the original Barn, a 24’ by 24’ square, unpainted board and battenbuilding. Replacing the original hayloft is an interior second story that serves as the Society’s of ce and archives.The downstairs is a mini-museum, displaying photographs and artifacts reective of Paci c Grove’s history.Ketcham’s Barn is open to the public on Saturdays from 1 to 4 pm.

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William A. Howell HouseS 1911Current Owners:Stephanie and Michael Beckwith 245 Ocean View Bo

This home overlooking Monterey Bay has been a haven for the original owner’s family for 100 years. William A. How1960) of Bakersfield hired Emily E. Williams to design this eclectic Craftsman-style vacation house, which was built to

standards around 1911. Howell was Kern County’s court reporter for 36 years, as well as a businessman and civic leadElizabeth Dugan in 1901; they had two children Genevieve (1902-1990) and William Howell, Jr. (1911-1978). Howellhave preserved many of the home’s original features as well as its history, including the original blueprints and very debuilding contract.

Emily Williams (1869-1942), a San Jose school teacher turned architect, designed and supervised the construction of sein Pacific Grove and the San Francisco Bay Area. For Howell, she designed a unique house that combined elements ofand Craftsman styles popular at the time, while showcasing a bay view from every room. Notable exterior features inclroof, clinker brick chimney, and picture windows with small diamond panes. Williams prided herself on interiors that w San Jose Mercuryarticle described them, “not only beautiful and artistic, but convenient, livable, planned to save steps anplaces to put things.” This home showcases Williams’ style and expertise. It features a built-in sideboard in the dining

fir wainscoting in the living and dining rooms, a stained glass window with cypress trees on the stair landing, and spacand storage throughout. Williams even designed a cupboard on the roof to store the beds used on the outdoor sleeping penclosed). The step-saving kitchen still has the 1911 two-panel door cupboards, some which originally housed the boil

Over the years, the house has been modernized and the sleeping porches glassed in, but most of the original features reStephanie Beckwith (the granddaughter of William Howell) and her husband Michael are the current owners. In an effothe house to its original appearance, they recently removed stucco that had been applied to the first story in the 1960;s, historically appropriate windows. The Beckwith family enjoys preserving and sharing their historic family homes; Wil1891 Queen Anne-style Victorian home in Bakersfield is now a public museum (www.kcmuseum.org/stories/storyRea

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Hebert —Sarmanian HouseS 2007Current Owner:Ronnie Sarmanian 731 Ocean View Bou

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nBCapturing the spirit of California’s coastal communities, this Modern Minimalist home maximizes the potential of its sispectacular ocean views. Bill Foster, a Pacific Grove architect, designed this home for owners Jim Hebert and Ronni Sa

take full advantage of its small corner lot and front row seat on the bay. In 2007, the American Institute of Architects (ABay presented Foster with an Honor Award for Design Excellence for the recently completed home, and subsequently tSociety awarded it the 2011 Heritage House Award for New Construction. The home was featured in Russell AbrahamCalifornia Cool: Modernism Reborn.

This home replaces a simple carpenter vernacottage built in 1924; the first building permicalled for a 24 by 34 foot rustic three-roomcottage estimated to cost $1,600. That cottag was demolished in early 2006; multiple extechanges had destroyed any original architect

character or notable detail. According to architect Foster, Jim Hebert wathe catalyst for the open layout of this threebedroom, two bath home; he advocated for a simplicity that would emphasize the naturarather than built environment. To best capturthe “view shed,” Foster placed the main livinand dining areas on the second story andmaximized the use of glass and decks. With owners input, he designed all the interior buiins. Stocker and Allaire built the house, and Clark Design, Carmel, completed the interiodesign. The floors are bamboo, and kitchen abathroom countertops are Halila limestone.Bernard Trainor + Associates, Monterey,designed the landscape; Linda Ferry LightinDesign handled lighting.

Sadly, Mr. Hebert became ill during theconstruction phase and died before he could his plans realized in the completed home. Tothe design he championed, with the support oMs. Sarmanian, provides a beautiful and invlookout on the natural wonders of Monterey



W. B. Filcher HouseS 1905Current Owners:Francis Coen and Michelle Ford 412 16th

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nCThis fine Queen Anne Victorian residence was built in 1905 for W.B. Filcher, an early Pacific Grove real estate, loan anagent, and his wife Eugenia. In 1907 Mr. Filcher was recognized for laying a concrete sidewalk in front of this property

alongside other homes he owned at the time. Pacific Grove’s newspaper urged others to emulate Filcher’s “spirit of hompride that has not heretofore been evident among the majority of the citizens.”

The Filcher’s home is an outstanding example of the popular turn-of-the-last-century Queen Anne style that is charactesteeply pitched hip roof of irregular shape, dominant front-facing gable, cutaway bay windows, an asymmetrical façadeand other devices to avoid a smooth-walled appearance. Although the form of the original house is fairly simple, every ornamented with contrasting patterns of wooden siding, shaped shingles, trim boards, incised brackets, turned spindles,cut fretwork. Now coated with a luscious paint color palette applied by Pacific Grove painting contractor Erubiel MendPainting crew, the home makes a powerful architectural statement.

This historic treasure won the 2011 Heritage Society Award for its sensitive addition designed by architect James McCo

constructed by Richard DiLorenzo and his New Haven Company. Mr. McCord noted that the main challenge was to int various existing building levels into a single integrated home with one main stair connecting the master suite with the ohouse, the redesigned garage and guest suite, and basement. Each detail of the interior and exterior of both the original hits recent addition evidences the superb care and quality that enhances and preserves this beautiful home.



Chautauqua Hall

Paci c GrovePublic Library

Paci c GroveCity Hall

Point PinosLighthouse

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E. M. Brisbine HouseS 1908Current Owner:Diane Davenport 420 11th Str

It has been said that a house is not a house, it is a story. The story of the home at 420 11th Street began in 1908 when itscontractor E.M. Brisbine, built it from the ground up as a wood-sided cottage in a modest Vernacular Folk Victorian sty

from Brisbine family relatives. The extent of the home’s folk Victorian embellishments will never be fully known beyogable fronted form and roof style and the eccentric diamond-shaped window on the front façade, which are all that remoriginal period.

We do know that sometime between 1914 and 1923, a house next door at 418 11th Street was removed to make room fofor 420 11th Street — quite a narrow garage when used for 2011-size cars. We also know that sometime over the next fdecades, the original house — but not the garage — was stuccoed over, obscuring any earlier gingerbread or cut-shinglIn addition, the original laundry room was remodeled into a second bathroom, closets were added to the two bedrooms,garden-oriented window was installed in the kitchen, and an original room was removed to accommodate stairs to a roobasement.

The home’s current owner, Diane Davenport, purchased the property in 1996. Over the past fifteen years she has installheating, painted inside and out, re-roofed both house and garage, laid the garage structure’s first foundation, remodeledand main bathroom, and replaced the large garden window with French doors to access a new deck, the backyard and agarage. When Diane removed a large mirror over the fireplace mantel, she was surprised to find no wall behind it, just tbricks! And when her sons updated her kitchen and removed an original cabinet, they realized that the “knickknack” shit in the dining room was attached so they rebuilt it to precisely match the original design. The redwood window seat inroom and other woodwork with decorative molding throughout the house, though now painted, date back to the very beher bright, warm and inviting home’s story.

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Bob Jones HouseS 1926Current Owner:Margaret McGovern 833 Maple S

This 1926 Vernacular Bungalow is one of a growing list of Pacific Grove’s older residences that demonstrates any houshow abused by time, neglect or both — can be brought back to life.

When new owner Margaret McGovern first set foot on this property, she fell in love — not only with the small, plain, tubox of a house but also with the long-neglected trees on the large, overgrown property. Margaret and her husband, cabinKen Hinshaw, are both highly respected members of the Monterey Peninsula’s community of historic preservationists. inventory of the architectural damage (including floors boasting holes big enough to fall through, termites in the roof ra windows too deteriorated to save), they hired general contractor Mark Travaille of Travaille Brothers & Others who uncomplete restoration of the original structure and finishes and updated all the mechanical systems.

In the process, a small addition was built onto the back of the house to obtain a larger kitchen and a second bathroom. Kreplicated the original windows, doors, and kitchen cabinetry and pointed the rafter tails, bringing out the best elementshome’s 1920’s details without losing its distinctive simplicity. The completed bungalow still feels modest and reflects ihistoric period.

Like the house itself, the property’s many regular rows of plum trees — planted in 1926 by the former owner Bob Joneexpert fruit tree grafter — are also slated for full restoration to health. In addition, 833 Maple Street’s rich new paint pathe pink of Claude Monet’s house at Giverny, France, joins in boldly proclaiming that a new life for “The Orchard” has

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Andrew G. Reinhold HouseS 1949

Current Owners: John and Christine Bertko 888 Maple Stre

This 1949 home is a beautifully designed and maintained, modestly scaled single-story example of the Post Adobe stylconstruction techniques were first introduced to the Monterey Peninsula in the 1940’s by Carmel’s celebrated self-taugh

builder Hugh W. Comstock (also credited with many of that town’s “Fairy Tale” cottages). Comstock’s mission was to cost and ease the process of building a sturdy, well-insulated and stylish home resistant to moisture, fire and termites.

Derived from Northern European half-timbered architecture dating back to medieval times, the Post Adobe style’s heavpost-and-beam “skeleton” was in-filled with adobe mud-and-concrete bricks laid up with exposed cement mortar. This irregularly flared, hand-troweled chimney, wooden window shutters and planter boxes, simple half-round gutters, and Dall indicate characteristic hand-made textures and natural materials stemming from the Post Adobe style’s Craftsman-er

888 Maple Street measures just over 1,000 square feet. It was intended as a model for the future development of Post Ain Pacific Grove by carpenters/builders eager to offer an alternative to the more expensive and highly ornamented Victoof Pacific Grove’s beginnings. The 1950 real estate advertisement created to sell this house shows a cozy interior room electric range and hood set into a brick enclosure beneath a beamed ceiling painted with traditional folk designs. This pdeclared that 888 Maple Street was a comfortable and very livable residence. One other Post Adobe was built on Maplebut the style was soon overshadowed by the “platform frame” construction of the Ranch House style that still dominateneighborhood today.

A recent remodeling and updating project was completed in 2010. Architect Rick Steres carefully retained the original mand detailing both inside and out. Can you see the green features of this home? It has solar electric panels and 5,000 gaunderground rainwater storage (for irrigation), all added without damaging its historic character.

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The main building of this famous lighthouse was built in 1853 (over 25 years before Paci c Grove was settled), but then waited two yearsfor delivery of its Fresnel lens from France. The light has functionedever since — maintained rst by lighthouse keepers who lived inthe cottage, and then automated in 1975.

The refurbishing is an ongoing project of the Questers, an interna-tional group devoted to the study, restoration, and preservation of historic buildings. Questers has restored the rooms to the periodof 1893 to 1914 when Emily Fish was the light keeper.The City of Pacific Grove acquired the Lighthouse from theFederal Government. The Point Pinos Lighthouse Restoration andPreservation Committee, established to preserve the Lighthouse’sstructure and grounds, in conjunction with the City, has begunrestoration.The Lighthouse is open to the public free of charge Thursdays throughSundays from 1 – 4 p.m. Park your car in the lot opposite El Carmelo

Cemetery and walk west to the path that leads to the Lighthouse.

MAP Point Pinos LighthouseS 1855 Current OwnerCity of Paci c Gro

Asilomar Avenue

MAP Engineer’s CottageS 1913 Current Owner Asilomar Conference Cen

Asilomar Avenue Architect Julia Morgan had this one story cottage built in 1913 to provide a residence

for herself and a place to conduct business with her contractors while working on the Asilomar conference grounds from 1913 to 1928. The building was recently remodeledto provide larger sleeping accommodations and amenities for park guests staying on theconference grounds. Copies of Julia Morgan’s architectural drawings hang on the walls. Directions to the Engineer’s Cottage on Asilomar Avenue:

From Sinex Avenue: Turn left onto Asilomar Avenue. Travel approximately 1/2 block.Cottage on the right.

From Sunset Drive: Turn right onto Asilomar Avenue. Travel approximately 1/2block. Cottage on the left.

Parking is available on the shoulder of the roadway on Asilomar Avenue.

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Dennet and Sinex

This Shelter Shed replica, alsoknown as the “Whistle Stop,”copied the original Southern Paci cRailroad’s Greek Cross Design. The

sheds were built with walls thatcrossed at a 90-degree angle, withthe walls forming the backs of theseats. The original Asilomar shelter shed, built in 1911, was one of 15built in California.



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