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The Esther M. Hill House, is located on Scenic Road 2NE of Santa Lucia Avenue on Carmel Point. It was built by Sedletzky in 1964. [5] Henry Dickinson House 26363 Isabella Avenue M. J. Murphy: American Craftsman: 1923 Home of Henry F. Dickinson was a Chicago lawyer who came to Carmel in 1923. They helped organize the Carmel Music Society. [1]
Ocean Avenue at the Carmel beach Delos Goldsmith: 1889 Abbie Jane Hunter and Delos Goldsmith built the first community beach and bath house, on a dune, at the end of Ocean Avenue at the Carmel beach, with the help of her son, Wesley Hunter. [6] [7] Ann Nash-Dorothy Bassett House SW Junipero Street and Malta Avenue Nash Craftsman: 1921
The park is nestled in a little valley 2,400 feet (732 m) above sea level, with open meadows and large specimens of valley oak that once provided the Miwok peoples of this area with an ample supply of acorns. [2] The 135-acre (55 ha) park was established in 1962 [3] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Carmel became part of the United States in 1848, when Mexico ceded California as a result of the Mexican–American War. In the 1850s, "Rancho Las Manzanitas", the area that was to become Carmel-by-the-Sea, was purchased by French businessman Honoré Escolle. Escolle was known and prosperous in the City of Monterey, owning the first commercial ...
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Paul and Grace Flanders, married in 1920, came to Carmel in 1922, to build a home and start a business in real estate development. They purchased 80 acres of land from Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal. Flanders designed a two-story home, which they named the Outlands at 25800 Hatton Road, located on a hill overlooking the Carmel Mission, and Point Lobos ...
Whittell eventually owned almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the Nevada shoreline area on eastern Lake Tahoe. He had originally planned to develop the land into "high-class" summer properties, a ski resort, and a $1 million hotel-casino. [6] He later decided that he "liked not having neighbors."
The land was first settled by the Rumsen Ohlone Native Americans.A Rumsen village known as Echilat was located within the present-day Santa Lucia Preserve. [10] Four prehistoric resource sites were identified within the Preserve, including midden sites containing shell (mussel, chiton and barnacle); lithics (chert, andesite and quartz); fire-altered rock; animal bone; and dark soil.