November 30, 1938 - The Mendocino mill shut down for the last time. This was the third sawmill built at Mendocino. Mendocino Lumber Mill Panorama, c. 1907 - 1915. Panoramic photograph of the Mendocino Lumber Company mill. Lumber crews are casually standing in the foreground. From left to right are rails, water tanks, operations buildings and the log pond on Big River. (Schuyler U. Bunnell [...]
John and Susan Chalfant House, c. 1863. The John and Susan Chalfant house on the corner of Lansing and Main Street in Mendocino. The figures in the foreground are most probably Susan Chalfant with her daughter, Mattie. John Edward Chalfant came to California from Pennsylvania in 1850. He married the sister of Martha Ford, and the home he built was almost identical to Jerome and [...]
Wedding portrait of Elizabeth Broderick Carlson, 1859. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) November 28, 1880 - Mrs. Elizabeth Carlson died. She was born in County Cork, Ireland around 1828, and it’s unknown when she immigrated to the United States. She first married Mathew Kupp, who was born in New York. In 1853, their son, John, was born in Newark, New Jersey, and the [...]
A view of buildings along west Main Street in Mendocino, looking westward between 1874 and 1878. The photograph would have been taken four to eight years after the devastating fire of 1870, which destroyed all the buildings that originally stood on this block. On the right is the Chinese laundry, with a sign over the front porch that reads, "Chung Kow Washing and Ironing." A set [...]
Valentine-Mason House, 1972. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) In the Spring of 1941, Frank and Anne Valentine began construction on this home, located on the northeast corner of Little Lake and Ford Streets. Mrs. Valentine’s father, Carl Sorensen of Oakland, was in charge of the construction work. In April, a concrete foundation was poured. Anne was the Home Economics teacher at Mendocino High [...]
The old MacCallum family of Mendocino included not just Alex and Daisy, but also their children, Donald and Jean. We don’t know a great deal about these two. Neither married. A view of the south and east elevations of the MacCallum House from Albion Street, taken at about the time of Daisy Kelley MacCallum’s death. A flag pole in the front yard was erected in [...]
Mrs. Swanson and Two Water Towers, 1948. (Gift of William Heick, William Heick Collection, Kelley House Photographs) A view of two water towers in Mendocino, looking north from Main Street. A wood plank fence occupies the space between two buildings. Mrs. Carl Swanson sits on a bench at the foot of the outside staircase of her home. The address of the building on the [...]
The Mendocino Bank of Commerce, later renamed the Bank of America, at the corner of Main and Kasten Streets in Mendocino. (Gift of Francis Jackson) November 23, 1927 - The medical office of Dr. Russell Preston, Mendocino’s beloved physician, was ransacked by burglars. The Beacon speculated that the crime was carried out “evidently by amateur cracksmen, as marks of a jimmy or screw driver [...]
Wedding photograph of Maria Pacheco and husband, Antone Carvalho, 1896. (Aurelius Ormando Carpenter (photographer), Gift of Juanita Luis Craig, Juanita Luis Craig Collection, Kelley House Photographs) November 22, 1896 - Antone Carvalho and Miss Maria Pacheco were married at the Catholic Church by the Rev. Father H. K. White. Antone was born in the Azore Islands in 1864. He came to the United States [...]
Mitch Ortiz posing in his barbershop with his collection of photographs, c. 2008. (Gift of Mitch Ortiz, The Mitch Ortiz Collection, Kelley House Photographs) Mitch Ortiz owned the barbershop on the northeast corner of Lansing and Ukiah Streets from 1975 to 2009. He photographed all his customers and pinned the photographs on his wall. His collection, which is now housed at the Kelley House [...]