Living Large
Spotted this Victorian House during a recent road trip to Oregon. I found it worthy of a Pic. Hope you do too.
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The Carson Mansion:
The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, Eureka, California. Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.
The house is considered the most grand Victorian home in America. It is one of the most written about and photographed Victorian houses in California and possibly in the United States.
Originally the home of William Carson, one of Northern California's first major lumber barons, it has been a private club since 1950.
William Coleman Carson (July 15, 1825 New Brunswick – February 20, 1912 Eureka), for whom the house was built, arrived in San Francisco from New Brunswick, Canada, with a group of other woodsmen in 1849.
Carson had joined the California gold rush, arriving in the Trinity Mountains via the Eel River and Humboldt Bay. Carson soon contracted to provide logs for a small sawmill.
In November 1850, Carson felled a tree, the first for commercial purposes on Humboldt Bay. Carson soon went into the lumber business full time, and in 1854 shipped the first loads of redwood timber to San Francisco.
In 1884, on the eve of construction of the great home, his company was producing 15,000,000 board feet (35,000 m3) of lumber annually. The milling operations were combined with additional investments as far away as Southern California and at least partial ownerships in schooners used to move the lumber to booming markets on the west coast and all over the globe.
- Wikipedia
(iPhone 13 Pro Max, edited to taste)
Living Large
Spotted this Victorian House during a recent road trip to Oregon. I found it worthy of a Pic. Hope you do too.
____________________________________________
The Carson Mansion:
The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, Eureka, California. Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.
The house is considered the most grand Victorian home in America. It is one of the most written about and photographed Victorian houses in California and possibly in the United States.
Originally the home of William Carson, one of Northern California's first major lumber barons, it has been a private club since 1950.
William Coleman Carson (July 15, 1825 New Brunswick – February 20, 1912 Eureka), for whom the house was built, arrived in San Francisco from New Brunswick, Canada, with a group of other woodsmen in 1849.
Carson had joined the California gold rush, arriving in the Trinity Mountains via the Eel River and Humboldt Bay. Carson soon contracted to provide logs for a small sawmill.
In November 1850, Carson felled a tree, the first for commercial purposes on Humboldt Bay. Carson soon went into the lumber business full time, and in 1854 shipped the first loads of redwood timber to San Francisco.
In 1884, on the eve of construction of the great home, his company was producing 15,000,000 board feet (35,000 m3) of lumber annually. The milling operations were combined with additional investments as far away as Southern California and at least partial ownerships in schooners used to move the lumber to booming markets on the west coast and all over the globe.
- Wikipedia
(iPhone 13 Pro Max, edited to taste)