Gathering of the Presbyterian Missionary Society held at the home of Mrs. Evangeline Reep, June 1923. Pictured left to right: Mrs. Reep, Mrs. Stella West, Mrs. Kate Morgan, Mrs. Eliza Grindle, Olive Brown, Nellie Hitchen, Mrs. Lizzie Law, Vernie Jamison Brown. Children: Harold Reep, Merna Brown, Allen Law, Grace Maxwell, Bertha Reep. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 14, 1920 - Stella West [...]
There are tales, harrowing stories, which have been told and re-told for 167 years about the ship that was sucked into the blow hole in Mendocino Bay. Are they true? The opening to the Mendocino Bay blow hole as seen from The Point on the Mendocino Headlands. (Photo by Carol Dominy) Sidebar – we are not talking about the blow hole with a fence [...]
Full length portrait of Charles Denslow Ford on his wedding day, November 13, 1882. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 12, 1916 - Charles Denslow Ford died at Adler’s Sanitarium in San Francisco. He had been suffering from paralysis for about four months and was undergoing treatment at the time of his death. Born in Mendocino in 1858, Charles was the son of [...]
A view of the John Pete Lindberg property on the east side of Mendocino, looking northwest. The house stood on a hill above a steep ravine called LeBallister Gulch, visible in the photograph to the left of the house. Just above that, you can see the light-colored rows of headstones in Evergreen Cemetery. J. P. Lindberg was an early-day (c. 1874-1884) harness and saddle maker with [...]
Color polaroid snapshot of Miles Paoli and a friend sitting on a timber bench in front of a wooden board fence, 1978-1980. (Gift of Dolly Efishoff, Miles Paoli Collection, Kelley House Photographs) “Between the old Paoli Hotel and his home [next door to the west], Miles [Paoli] had somehow maneuvered a large squared-off timber, setting it as a bench in front of his fence. [...]
Apple Shed and MacCallum-Kelley Property, 1894 - 1908. The apple shed on the MacCallum house property, looking north from Albion Street directly opposite the Kelley House. A Mendocino-style picket fence runs along the road. Other buildings visible in this image include, left to right: the MacCallum house water tower, the Kelley Baptist Church, the tall Hegenmeyer water tower, and the back porch of Rose McGuire's [...]
Sunday School Picnic at Big Hill, 1931. Photograph of women attending the Presbyterian Church's Sunday School picnic at Big Hill. Back row: Susie Walbridge, Molly Valentine, Laura Lammers, Catherine Swanson, ? Silver, ? Hamblin. Front row: ? Hanna, Vernice Brown, Mary Nichols. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 8, 1947 - Mrs. Mary Nichols, cousin of Mendocino Beacon editor and proprietor Auggie Heeser, [...]
Elevated view looking to the northeast along Ukiah Street in Mendocino, 1920 - 1949. The image was probably captured from the Heeser water tower, located on the southeast corner of Kasten and Ukiah Streets. The Beacon building is seen in the left foreground. The undeveloped fenced field to its right will become the site of the post office and the Penny Farthing Building. Two water towers [...]
A 1970s postcard of Ruth Carlson's Studio Gallery in the Redwood Center at the junction of Highway 1 and Main Street in Mendocino. Between the years 1966 and 2000, the gallery, later called Gallery One, featured her paintings as well as the work of other local artists. This unique building is called THE REDWOOD CENTER and was built in 1966 by Kenneth Ricksecker, one [...]
Parade car decorated with flowers passing the Red House on Ukiah Street in Mendocino, California, c. 1920. This building was a Kelley family rental and came to be known as the "Red House" since it was painted that color for many years. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 5, 1885 - The bell in the cupola of the old school house, located near [...]