Studio portrait of Daisy Kelley MacCallum, c. 1879-1885. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) August 13, 1953 - Daisy MacCallum died. She was the oldest of Eliza and William H. Kelley’s four children. Born in Mendocino on August 2, 1859, Daisy spent her childhood in the Kelley House on Albion Street. She was an adventurous child, and in later years, she often told of an early [...]
Last year, the Kelley House was the lucky recipient of numerous items from the David J. Russell Estate. His generous children, Ann, David, Libby and Peter, offered us boxes of photographic prints and scanned negatives that capture their father’s fascination with the Mendocino Coast, (including the activities of the Mendocino Volunteer Fire Department), as well as maps and surveys he had made in his role as [...]
Parade in Mendocino celebrating the 100th anniversary of the town of Mendocino, 1952. (Ed Frietas (photographer), Gift of Ed O'Brien, Kelley House Photographs) August 10, 1952 - Mendocino celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the town with a parade, barbecue, and dancing. An estimated 5,000 people attended the weekend Centennial celebration. The event began on Saturday with a display of antiques and heirlooms loaned [...]
Hay wagon with six horses in front of the Mansion House Hotel in Mendocino, c. 1882. Two women are standing on the second floor balcony and many men are posing in front of the hotel. The corner of J. D. Johnson’s undertaker business can be seen on the left. (Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) In 1882, O. B. Ackerman, an architect and builder [...]
Mendocino Lumber Mill, taken from up river, after it was rebuilt from damage in the 1906 earthquake. Photograph shows the new smoke stacks made from riveted pipes that replaced the damaged stack. (Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) August 8, 1907 - Iron workers, Edwin Graves and Charles Smith, of the Eureka Boiler Works arrived on the steamer Sea Foam to install twin smokestacks [...]
Warehouse-garage originally built by William H. Kelley, 1957. The building is abandoned and boarded up. Rotary Park now occupies the space. The Lansing water tower and the Presbyterian Church can be seen in the background, with Schlafer's Garage on the right. The sign on the fence reads, "Marvel's Village Kitchen and Fountain. Old Fashioned Cooking" and refers to a cafe around the corner on Main Street. [...]
Color photograph of the Sankey Gallery on Evergreen Street in Mendocino. (Bill Wagner (photographer), The Bill Wagner Collection, Kelley House Photographs) August 6, 1965 - The Sankey Gallery announced an exhibit of paintings, paint drawings, and reliefs by award-winning artist Ada Garfinkel of Marin County. This Mendocino art gallery was operated by Laura and Elwood Sankey from 1963 to 1971, first on Little Lake Street, but [...]
On the far side of Mendocino, at the east end of Main Street, there is a narrow ribbon of pavement just a few blocks long now called Evergreen Avenue. Its name doesn’t conform to the protocol that most of the other north-south streets follow, which reflects the last names of early families, such as Lansing, Kelley, and Heeser. It refers instead to the nearby cemetery. But [...]
Studio portrait of Thomas Dollard, c. 1875. (Emery Escola, Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Photographs) August 4, 1879 - Thomas Dollard, Superintendent of the Woods, received a telegram from J. B. Ford of the Mendocino Lumber Company, instructing him not to start work in the Big River woods until he received further orders. Dollard had been preparing to begin work that very morning, hiring men and [...]
Eight men posing in front of the Alhambra Hotel next to a large gaslight, purportedly the first in town, c. 1887. H.B. Seavey, the owner, is standing third from the left wearing a beard and vest without a coat. A tall flagpole, attached to the eave of the false front, sits on the second-story balcony. The balcony is constructed with crossed rails. A hitching post is [...]