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Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una bought land at Carmel Point in Spring 1919, and in mid-May they contracted Mike Murphy, an established Carmel developer, to build them a stone cottage at Carmel Point. Murphy's stonemason began work on the house immediately and, with Jeffers signing on later as an apprentice, was able to complete the project by ...
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The Carmel Point land is hilly to the east, but flat to the west, which is closest to the Carmel Bay. The highest point in the vicinity is 1,768.37 ft (539.00 m) high and is 18.7 ft (5.7 m) southeast of Carmel Point. There are about 23 people per square kilometer in Carmel Point's relatively small population. The nearest larger town is Seaside ...
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]
Mrs. Clinton Walker House, also known as Cabin on the Rocks, is located on Carmel Point, near Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 and completed in 1952 for Mrs. Clinton "Della" Walker of Pebble Beach. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1977. [3] [1]
The library opened on March 31, 1928, in a two-story building in Carmel-by-the-Sea. It was renovated in 1949 and again in 1977. [4] [5] Christine Delsol of SFGate described it as an "imposing Mission-style building with castle-sized windows." [6] The Barnet J. Segal Reading Room. The Barnet Segal Reading Room is named for Barnet J. Segal. [7]
Hawk Tower in Carmel. In the 1920s and 1930s, at the height of his popularity, Jeffers was famous for being a tough outdoorsman, living in relative solitude and writing of the difficulty and beauty of the wild. He spent most of his life in Carmel, California, in a granite house that he built with his own hands which they named "Tor House".
John Martin (December 11, 1827 – February 28, 1893) was a Scottish-American pioneer who arrived to Monterey County, California in 1856. He purchased 216 unsettled acres (87 ha) near the mouth of Carmel Valley, close to today's Carmel Mission, predating the development of Carmel-by-the-Sea.