Overview

This was the only residence designed by Bay Area architect Clarnece W.W. Mayhew in the beachfront resort town of Carmel, CA, completed in 1953. It was sited on San Antonio Avenue, two houses northwest of 13th Avenue.

Building Notes

Like many Bay Region houses of the 1930s-1950s, this flat-roofed house had an integral garage facing the street's noises and passersby, providing acoustic and visual insulation for living and sleeping areas. One entered the building through a shletered courtyard, another common plan element of California mid-century houses. The exterior of the house facing the main view, in this case Carmel's beach and the Pacific Ocean, was completely glazed.

The house had the characteristic modesty of form and scale typical of work by Diniwiddie, Wurster, Dailey and others of the "Second Bay Region Tradition."

PCAD id: 23421