Carr House (Benicia, California)
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| Location | 165 E. D St, Benicia, California |
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| Coordinates | 38°2′49″N 122°9′28″W / 38.04694°N 122.15778°W |
| Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
| Built | 1850s |
| Demolished | by c. 2000 |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000555[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 13, 1979 |
The Carr House is a now demolished historic building in Benicia, California, United States. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1979.
Description
[edit]The house was one story, of brick with a steep gable roof, in Federal style including a fanlight over the front door. It was originally rectangular, measuring 26 by 28 feet; before 1919 a frame extension with shiplap siding was added at the rear to create a T shape, and this had a rear porch that was later filled in. The house was one of the last remaining buildings from the early history of Benicia, when the town served as the capital of California from 1853 to 1854, and the brick appears identical to that used to build the state capitol there.[2] The front door and interior wood trim appeared to be later 19th-century additions from lumberyard stock,[3] and wooden millwork decoration was of a style suggesting the 1870s;[2] the house itself had also been thought to date to that decade, because of a 1919 city assessment estimating its age as 40 years.[3] There was a brick cistern under part of the building,[4] and the house had an attic and basement and appeared to have been originally heated by stoves vented into a chimney between rooms.[3]
History
[edit]The Carr House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1979, at which time there were plans to restore it.[2] It was demolished by the turn of the millennium.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c "National Register of Historic Places inventory: Nomination form, Carr House". US Department of the Interior Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. July 17, 1979.
- ^ a b c Robert Bruegmann (1980). Benicia, Portrait of an Early California Town: An architectural History. San Francisco: 101 Productions. pp. 51–52, 120–21. ISBN 9780892861521.
- ^ Historic American Buildings Survey. "Carr House, 165 East D Street, Benicia, Solano County, CA". Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places in Solano County: National Register #79000555: Carr House". NoeHill. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ State of California Department of Parks and Recreation. "161 East D Street" (PDF). Retrieved December 18, 2018 – via City of Benicia: Sites.
It has been demolished and a circa 2000 building now occupies the property.
External links
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Media related to Carr House at Wikimedia Commons
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