MA Wilham A. 11 owell iIouse * 1911 Current Owners: Stephanie and Michael Beckwith 245 Ocean View Boulevard This home overlooking Monterey Bay has been a haven for the original owner's family for 100 years. William A. Howell (1862- 1960) of Bakersfield hired Emily E. Williams to design this eclectic Craftsman-style vacation house, which was built to his exacting standards around 1911. Howell was Kern County's court reporter for 36 years, as well as a businessman and civic leader. He married Elizabeth Dugan in 1901; they had two children Genevieve (1902-1990) and William Howell,Jr. (1911-1978). Howell's descendants have preserved many of the home's original features as well as its history, including the original blueprints and very detailed 28-page building contract. Emily Williams (1869-1942), a San Jose school teacher turned architect, designed and supervised the construction of several homes in Pacific Grove and the San Francisco Bay Area. For Howell, she designed a unique house that combined elements of the Shingle and Craftsman styles popular at the time, while showcasing a bay view from every room. Notable exterior features include a gambrel roof, clinker brick chimney, and picture windows with small diamond panes. Williams prided herself on interiors that were, as a 1906 SanJoseMerculy article described them, "not only beautiful and artistic, but convenient, livable, planned to save steps and with places to put things." This home showcases Williams' style and expertise. It features a built-in sideboard in the dining room, Douglas fir wainscoting in the living and dining rooms, a stained glass window with cypress trees on the stair landing, and spacious closets and storage throughout. Williams even designed a cupboard on the roof to store the beds used on the outdoor sleeping porch (now enclosed). The step-saving kitchen still has the 1911 two-panel door cupboards, some which originally housed the boiler and cooler. Over the years, the house has been modernized and the sleeping porches glassed in, but most of the original features remain. Stephanie Beckwith (the granddaughter of William Howell) and her husband Michael are the current owners. In an effort to restore the house to its original appearance, they recently removed stucco that had been applied to the first story in the 1960s, and installed historically appropriate windows. The Beckwith family enjoys preserving and sharing their historic family homes; William Howell's 1891 Queen Anne-style Victorian home in Bakersfield is now a public museum (www.kcmuseum.org/stories/storyReader#123). e 4 , OCR Text: MA Wilham A. 11 owell iIouse * 1911 Current Owners: Stephanie and Michael Beckwith 245 Ocean View Boulevard This home overlooking Monterey Bay has been a haven for the original owner's family for 100 years. William A. Howell (1862- 1960) of Bakersfield hired Emily E. Williams to design this eclectic Craftsman-style vacation house, which was built to his exacting standards around 1911. Howell was Kern County's court reporter for 36 years, as well as a businessman and civic leader. He married Elizabeth Dugan in 1901; they had two children Genevieve (1902-1990) and William Howell,Jr. (1911-1978). Howell's descendants have preserved many of the home's original features as well as its history, including the original blueprints and very detailed 28-page building contract. Emily Williams (1869-1942), a San Jose school teacher turned architect, designed and supervised the construction of several homes in Pacific Grove and the San Francisco Bay Area. For Howell, she designed a unique house that combined elements of the Shingle and Craftsman styles popular at the time, while showcasing a bay view from every room. Notable exterior features include a gambrel roof, clinker brick chimney, and picture windows with small diamond panes. Williams prided herself on interiors that were, as a 1906 SanJoseMerculy article described them, "not only beautiful and artistic, but convenient, livable, planned to save steps and with places to put things." This home showcases Williams' style and expertise. It features a built-in sideboard in the dining room, Douglas fir wainscoting in the living and dining rooms, a stained glass window with cypress trees on the stair landing, and spacious closets and storage throughout. Williams even designed a cupboard on the roof to store the beds used on the outdoor sleeping porch (now enclosed). The step-saving kitchen still has the 1911 two-panel door cupboards, some which originally housed the boiler and cooler. Over the years, the house has been modernized and the sleeping porches glassed in, but most of the original features remain. Stephanie Beckwith (the granddaughter of William Howell) and her husband Michael are the current owners. In an effort to restore the house to its original appearance, they recently removed stucco that had been applied to the first story in the 1960s, and installed historically appropriate windows. The Beckwith family enjoys preserving and sharing their historic family homes; William Howell's 1891 Queen Anne-style Victorian home in Bakersfield is now a public museum (www.kcmuseum.org/stories/storyReader#123). e 4 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Historic Properties of Pacific Grove,Ocean View Blvd,245 Ocean View,180 - 245 OCEAN VIEW BLVD_068.pdf,180 - 245 OCEAN VIEW BLVD_068.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: 180 - 245 OCEAN VIEW BLVD_068.PDF, 180 - 245 OCEAN VIEW BLVD_068.pdf 1 Page 1