Built in 1855, this shows the original house with the signature fascia work, the add-on, but not the large deck added much later.
Seafaring Town
The story was retold in the 1880 “History of Mendocino County,” and later in 1914 in Carpenter’s “History of Mendocino and Lake Counties,” who said the men were rescued by ropes in the hands of Charley Carlson and our very own William Kelley. Local history buff Bill Brazill says his grandmother told him that the struggling sailors were guided to land by bonfires on the beach lit by townspeople who had come to aid in the disaster.
Many accounts say that one of the survivors was a baby. After the ship had smashed into the blow hole and it seemed that all was lost, the young mother tied her tiny child into a chopping bowl and dropped it into the bay. The bowl and baby were washed near the shore and rescued. Mrs. Spencer Hills of Mendocino took the child and cared for it until the grandparents came from Chile about a year later and took it.
Natural Beauty abounds.
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Bluffs
The signature bluffs provide unforgettable views all up and down the northern Californian coastline.
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Navarro Beach
The Navarro river swells until it breaks through into the Pacific beyond.
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Big River Beach
A five minute walk from your front porch to Mendocino’s most memorable beach.
