Built nearly flush against the sidewalk at 1531 J St., the Eureka Woman’s Club sits on what Second Vice President Murline Georgeson describes as “a postage stamp-sized lot.” The ladies who paid her late father-in-law architect Franklin Georgeson to design and build the Craftsman-style hall from old growth redwood in 1916 were not interested in […]
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Moderne Beauty
Living inside a movie theater is a fantasy many cinephiles have surely entertained, but few have indulged. George M. Mann, builder and original proprietor of the Eureka Theater, was one of the few. Mann worked from the 1920s through the 1940s to build a chain of movie theaters that would eventually span from Klamath Falls […]
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A Flâneur Wanders the Streets of Eureka
The French word flâneur isn’t a word you hear much around here. It originally meant a 19th century male who loitered, strolled and wandered around Paris. Although born 100 years later, Henry Miller, who meandered all over Paris in the 1930s, was one. After he left France, he wrote, “There are scarcely any streets in […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Snow Moon over Carson Mansion
As one of the most photographed Victorian buildings in California, if not the United States, the Carson Mansion has crept beyond Humboldt’s borders to seep into our popular culture. Certainly it has added its unique presence to the horror genre; I’ve periodically encountered the mansion’s distinctive form as the architectural basis of haunted houses in […]
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Epic Scrolls and Journeys
To stand in the middle of the building that houses the Morris Graves Museum of Art and look up is to feel the pull of the former Carnegie library’s Renaissance-derived architectural language. An octagonal array of veneered and polished redwood columns rise two stories to frame the view into the dome. The space is split […]
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The Pink Lady
Perched daintily on the corner across from the Carson Mansion is the Pink Lady, a classic Queen Anne Victorian built as a wedding gift from William Carson to his eldest son Milton. (202 M St, Eureka) The Lady feels like the dark green, iron-gated mansion’s flirtatious kid sister, surrounded by a white wooden fence with […]