AKA: Moore Beach House, Yankee Point, Carmel, CA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses

Designers: Anshen and Allen, Architects (firm); William Stephen Allen Jr. (architect); Samuel Robert Anshen (architect)

Dates: constructed 1953

Yankee Point, Carmel, CA

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The firm of Anshen and Allen, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, designed this weekend house for a semi-active physician, his wife and their five children, for a clifftop site at Yankee Point, Carmel, CA. A carport placed centrally divided two triangular wings, one containing a service spaces, the other living areas. The architects produced designs for the house's furniture; a triangular dining table, was produced specially for its triangular living room.

The Moore House won an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1955. It featured a floor plan

PCAD id: 17960