Napoleon Bonaparte Bever with a three-horse team hauling lumber-filled railroad cars from the Mendocino mill on the flats to the incline by the beach, c. 1902. (Gift of Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 4, 1913 - Napoleon Bonaparte Bever passed away after a long illness. Mr. Bever had been unwell for several years, “and although originally a man of strong [...]
Lansing House, 1931. The south (front) and west sides of the Lansing House, built by David Lansing in 1855 with lumber milled in San Francisco and shipped to Mendocino. Captain Lansing died in 1877, and the house went to his daughter, Julia Lansing Morrow and her husband, J. J. Morrow. In 1888, the house was purchased by Oscar M. Stone, a Main Street watchmaker and jeweler, [...]
Gordon-Dilling Family Camping Trip, 1923-1925. Left top, standing: Jennie Dilling, Ella (Gordon) Luiz, Margaret Dilling. Seated: Frank Gordon, Annie (Dilling) Gordon, Juanita Luiz, Frank Dilling, Mamie Gordon, Thelma Dilling, Susie (Gordon) Walbridge, Frances Walbridge, Malcolm Luiz, Archie Gordon, Agnes Dilling, Clara Dilling. Sitting in front of tent: Chester Walbridge. (Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) January 2, 1919 - Five-year-old Malcolm Luiz [...]
Richard and Margaret Kelley Postcard, 1915. Picture postcard with a photograph of Richard and Margaret Kelley as very young children. Richard, left, and Margaret, right, are posing on a large tree stump somewhere in Mendocino. The postcard was sent by Annie Kelley to Aunt Elise Kelley Drexler, wishing Elise (Aunt Lee, as the children called her) a Happy New Year and dated December 30, 1915. The [...]
The Robert Law family, 1913. Robert and Elizabeth Freathy Law driving in a one-horse buggy from Little River to Mendocino on their way to church with their children, Edward and Jean. The horse was named "Susie." The road is bordered by a split rail fence. (Gift of Jean Rice) Robert Law was born in Lachute, Canada in 1868. He immigrated to the US around [...]
As a Kelley House docent researching a book on the Orr Hot Springs area, I have amassed more information than I could ever possibly use in what I plan to be a small publication on the subject. While the who, what, when, where, why and how facts get arranged into chronological order, it’s the odd, poorly documented tidbits of information that keep distracting me. Postcard [...]
Mendocino Shipping Point and the blowhole beneath it. The Wire chute and hoisting apparatus can be seen on the left, with storage and machinery sheds to the right, 1925-1940. (Gift of Dot Johnson, The Everett Racine Collection, Kelley House Photographs) Mendocino Book Two by Dorothy Bear and Beth Stebbins - Meet the Ford family, founders of Mendocino. Learn about Henry Meiggs and the Mendocino Lumber Company [...]
Stockton City, wrecked off Russian Gulch, 1922. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 28, 1922 - The gas steamer Stockton City wrecked on the north side of Russian Gulch. She was a small vessel of 115 gross tons built in 1898. She had pulled into Russian Gulch harbor the previous day, but the seas were too rough to unload the cargo, so she [...]
Mendocino Mill Crew, 1897. Front row, left to right: William (Bill) Hines, George Knudsen, Frank Brown, Ernest Knudsen, Will Brown, Albert Gregory, John Salvador. Second row: Henry Kleinschmidt, Joe King, Sr., John Ramus, Fred Halling (Mill boss), Albert Peterson, Frank Clement, Theodore Hansen, Sam Bever (planing mill foreman). Third row: George Jarvis, Frank Mendosa, Tom Knudsen, John Larsen, George Marshal (sawyer), Unidentified, Isaac Silvia, Tom [...]
Herman and Amelia Fayal celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary on December 26, 1964, as guests of honor at a party given by their daughter, Jacqueline McDonell, at her home on Kelly Street. L - R: Herman Jr., Marie, Herman Sr., Amelia, John, Jacqueline. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) December 26, 1914 - Miss Amelia Costa became the bride of Herman C. Fayal. The [...]