Overview

The San Francisco architect. William Wurster, who was in the beginning stages of Parkinson's Disease, designed this adobe house for the photographer, Morley Baer, one of his last residential designs. Wurster composed the residence for a majestic coastal site near Big Sur, CA, in the mid-1960s.

Building History

The commission came into the Wurster. Bernardi and Emmons (WBE) office in 1963 and carried the project #63140. Construction began likely in 1964 or 1965 and was completed in 1966. Wurster had worked with Baer many times since the 1950s, as the latter frequently photographed WBE work for architectural and popular homes periodicals. Baer had a strong interest in the photographing the adobe architecture of Spanish-. Mexican- and early Anglo-American-Calfiornia. Wurster strongly admired the simplicity and clarity of some adobe design, a distilled, sober aesthetic that influenced his work throughout his career. Both men shared this interest, and it followed that Wurster would design Baer a new adobe structure for a remarkably beautiful site perched on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean.

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