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ElwoodBlues · M
@Mamapolo2016 [quote] I love the house. Frank Lloyd Wright meets Harry Potter. Organic.[/quote] Yep, they've definitely got that low pitch roof big overhang prairie style in some of their work.
Are you familiar with Greene & Greene? Architect brothers who merged 'Arts & Crafts' styles from England with Japanese styles and a dash of California adobe and New England shingle styles.
You can see a few of those styles incorporated into this Blacker House stairway
This is called Gamble House
The Duncan-Irwin house
Are you familiar with Greene & Greene? Architect brothers who merged 'Arts & Crafts' styles from England with Japanese styles and a dash of California adobe and New England shingle styles.
You can see a few of those styles incorporated into this Blacker House stairway
This is called Gamble House
The Duncan-Irwin house
ElwoodBlues · M
More Greene & Greene deliciousness
Charles Green's own garage, where stone flows into brick
The Mary Cole house, now part of a church. This overhang was originally a porte-cochère.
Van Rossem-Neill house
Charles Green's own garage, where stone flows into brick
The Mary Cole house, now part of a church. This overhang was originally a porte-cochère.
Van Rossem-Neill house
Spoiledbrat · F
The first house looks ancient. The last one is gorgeous.
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ElwoodBlues · M
@Spoiledbrat Yep. Built in 1918. I see the reason for confusion though. The first two images show tile roofing; the final one shows metal. I doubt there was metal roofing available in 1918, and I have no idea when it was updated. Metal roofing would weigh a lot less and ease the load on 100 year old timbers, so it's a reasonable choice.
Spoiledbrat · F
@ElwoodBlues Now that you mention it I see the resemblance between the first 2 pics.
Spoiledbrat · F
The third a little too. @ElwoodBlues
I drive by it on my way to big sur like ik the front gate on a road trip
Mamapolo2016 · F
That's the Pitts?
ElwoodBlues · M
@Mamapolo2016 Only one Pitt, I think. But a very significant Pitt!
Mamapolo2016 · F
@ElwoodBlues I love the house. Frank Lloyd Wright meets Harry Potter. Organic.
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Is it heritage listed?
ElwoodBlues · M
@Thevy29 I don't think so!
The location is actually "Carmel Highlands" an unincorporated community in Monterey County, 3 mi south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. As an unincorporated community, I think there are fewer governing authorities to make and enforce a heritage listing.
It doesn't seem to appear on this national list:
[b]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Monterey_County,_California[/b]
The location is actually "Carmel Highlands" an unincorporated community in Monterey County, 3 mi south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. As an unincorporated community, I think there are fewer governing authorities to make and enforce a heritage listing.
It doesn't seem to appear on this national list:
[b]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Monterey_County,_California[/b]
windinhishair · 61-69, M
Absolutely beautiful!
bijouxbroussard · F
That’s really cool !
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I like it, but I would hesitate to ever build on a clifftop location ... it seems more often than not, nothing on a cliff (especially a seaside cliff) is permanent ... I'm shocked how close to the edge of seaside cliffs / bluffs people have been allowed to build in places like coastal CA and Sequim WA while erosion of the cliffs has always been ongoing
I walked through a house once on the western side of Whidbey Island WA and the back yard was surrounded by a chain-link fence ... the back edge of the fence was already dangling in parts over gaping holes at the edge of a clay coastal bluff probably close to 100 feet high. I would have nightmares trying to sleep in that place, especially after that 2014 mudslide in Oso WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide
And for multiple years now we seem to see houses on coastal CA cliffs falling into the sea during the rainy season.
I walked through a house once on the western side of Whidbey Island WA and the back yard was surrounded by a chain-link fence ... the back edge of the fence was already dangling in parts over gaping holes at the edge of a clay coastal bluff probably close to 100 feet high. I would have nightmares trying to sleep in that place, especially after that 2014 mudslide in Oso WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide
And for multiple years now we seem to see houses on coastal CA cliffs falling into the sea during the rainy season.
iamonfire696 · 41-45, F
That’s beautiful
LordShadowfire · 46-50
Yeah, that is awesome.
MethDozer · M
Yeah, that's sick