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Overview

This 2-floor Monterey Colonial residence was erected in 1938 for the mining engineer and businessman Charles Merrill and his wife Margaret. The architect was Walter H. Ratcliff, Jr.,

Building History

Charles Washington Merrill (1869–1958) and his second wife Margaret Barker Merrill (1889-1958), moved to Orinda from a Julia Morgan-designed residence in Berkeley, just over the Contra Costa hills. Merrill was a mining engineer who developed 25 patents to improve the extraction of gold from various ores. He founded the Merrill Company to oversee and profit from these patents. (See Steven T. Mitchell, Nuggets to Neutrinos: The Homestake Story, [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2009], n.p.)

Building Notes

In 2018, the Merrill House contained 7 bedrooms and4.5 baths, and 5.091 square feet.