1939 - The City of Pacific Grove passes an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to molest a butterfly and gains international attention. 1941 - John Steinbeck returns to Pacific Grove in February. He buys and moves into 425 Eardley. In September, he and Carol separate and he moves to New York. 1946 - The city council passes an ordinance naming the fuchsia as the official town flower. 1950 - In January Bing Crosby dedicates the Pacific Grove Youth Center. 1969 - Residents vote to allow alcohol in Pacific Grove, the last "dry town" in California. 1976 - The Pacific Grove Heritage Society was founded and in 1978 the first plague was awarded to the property at 225 Central. E. Description of the Historic Resource, W. B. Filcher Residence: The Monterey County Assessor tax records indicate that the house was originally constructed in 1905. (The P. G. City records indicate the structure may have been built in 1898). The Sanborn maps indicate the garage was built after 1905. The W. B. Filcher Residence, documented from original photos in 1906 from the Pacific Grove Review (See Attach. # 4) illustrates a fairly modest example of the highly ornamented Queen Anne style. Primarily used as a single family residence, it was built as a wood-framed, one story residence with a basement. (Separate access to the basement appears to be the doors in the west fagade). A standard Queen Anne characteristic of the house include a large central medium-pitched hipped roof, smaller gable roofs on the north, east and south sides, with bay window treatment for windows below these smaller roofs. There is no masonry chimney or fireplace in the existing house. A large corner bay window structure to the right of the front fagade, with a wide entry stairs leading to the front porch on the left, is typical of Queen Anne style houses. The roof gable at the front fagade overhangs the bay window shaped into the wall below known as "cutaway bay windows". This Victorian era house can also be identified as Queen Anne style by the use of textured and varied wall surfaces such as ship-lap siding, patterned shingles in the gables to avoid any plain wall surfaces on the exterior. Also by the elaborate decoration in the spindle-work frieze and scroll-work decoration below the eaves, on the porch posts and roof overhangs. The bay window has small decorative muntins in the transom glass. The supporting porch posts have been 'turned' typical of this style. The fenestration is typically 1/1 wood-sash, double-hung windows with transom windows above the front bay window and front door. The detached garage is currently used for autos with a separate dwelling unit in the back. The Queen Anne style was popular between 1880 to 1910, but also imitated to this day. (A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia and Lee McAlister, Alfred A. Knopt publisher 1986). The Heritage Society in an article "The Architecture of Pacific Grove" states that " The built environment of our community is basically the product of carpenter builders who 7 , OCR Text: 1939 - The City of Pacific Grove passes an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to molest a butterfly and gains international attention. 1941 - John Steinbeck returns to Pacific Grove in February. He buys and moves into 425 Eardley. In September, he and Carol separate and he moves to New York. 1946 - The city council passes an ordinance naming the fuchsia as the official town flower. 1950 - In January Bing Crosby dedicates the Pacific Grove Youth Center. 1969 - Residents vote to allow alcohol in Pacific Grove, the last "dry town" in California. 1976 - The Pacific Grove Heritage Society was founded and in 1978 the first plague was awarded to the property at 225 Central. E. Description of the Historic Resource, W. B. Filcher Residence: The Monterey County Assessor tax records indicate that the house was originally constructed in 1905. (The P. G. City records indicate the structure may have been built in 1898). The Sanborn maps indicate the garage was built after 1905. The W. B. Filcher Residence, documented from original photos in 1906 from the Pacific Grove Review (See Attach. # 4) illustrates a fairly modest example of the highly ornamented Queen Anne style. Primarily used as a single family residence, it was built as a wood-framed, one story residence with a basement. (Separate access to the basement appears to be the doors in the west fagade). A standard Queen Anne characteristic of the house include a large central medium-pitched hipped roof, smaller gable roofs on the north, east and south sides, with bay window treatment for windows below these smaller roofs. There is no masonry chimney or fireplace in the existing house. A large corner bay window structure to the right of the front fagade, with a wide entry stairs leading to the front porch on the left, is typical of Queen Anne style houses. The roof gable at the front fagade overhangs the bay window shaped into the wall below known as "cutaway bay windows". This Victorian era house can also be identified as Queen Anne style by the use of textured and varied wall surfaces such as ship-lap siding, patterned shingles in the gables to avoid any plain wall surfaces on the exterior. Also by the elaborate decoration in the spindle-work frieze and scroll-work decoration below the eaves, on the porch posts and roof overhangs. The bay window has small decorative muntins in the transom glass. The supporting porch posts have been 'turned' typical of this style. The fenestration is typically 1/1 wood-sash, double-hung windows with transom windows above the front bay window and front door. The detached garage is currently used for autos with a separate dwelling unit in the back. The Queen Anne style was popular between 1880 to 1910, but also imitated to this day. (A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia and Lee McAlister, Alfred A. Knopt publisher 1986). The Heritage Society in an article "The Architecture of Pacific Grove" states that " The built environment of our community is basically the product of carpenter builders who 7 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Historic Properties of Pacific Grove,16th st,412 16th,301 - 500_s 16TH ST_048.pdf,301 - 500_s 16TH ST_048.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: 301 - 500_S 16TH ST_048.PDF, 301 - 500_s 16TH ST_048.pdf 1 Page 1