Slow down and look around. Humboldt County is a coastal treasure trove of historic buildings and cultural landscapes. Our architecture sheds light on the history of the redwood timber industry and the people who immigrated and traveled the routes of the earliest indigenous tribes, shaping the county into what you see today. Here are a […]
Carson Block Building
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Jewels of Humboldt
Slow down and look around. Humboldt County is a coastal treasure trove of historic buildings and cultural landscapes. Our architecture sheds light on the history of the redwood timber industry and the people who immigrated and traveled the routes of the earliest indigenous tribes, shaping the county into what you see today. Here are a […]
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Besties on the Red Carpet
We’re still recovering from our North Coast Journal Best of Humboldt party on Saturday. How about you? There was a line around the block from the historic Carson Block Building, where the third floor, once the home of a stately theater, filled up with revelers celebrating the winners (voted on by our readers) in our […]
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The Carson Block Building: Open for Business
The North Coast Indian Development Council moved back into the bottom floor last week, and rumor has it most of the offices in the newly renovated Carson Block building have been rented, but the public got its first peek at all of the work that’s been done on this historic building during today’s grand opening. […]
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Carson Block Redux: When Stucco Was King
Local historian Bob Libershal was kind enough to come by the Journal office recently and deliver a copy of an article he found during his duties as archivist for the Eureka Heritage Society. The article, from June of 1924, sheds light on why the H.H. Buhne Company, which bought the Carson Block building from the […]
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TL;DR: Five Things You Might Have Missed in This Weeks’ Cover Story
Busy week? We get it. Let us build you a scale model of this week’s main story. Here are some highlights from “Witness Marks.” Eureka’s Carson Block building turns 124 years old this year, and she’s celebrating her long life by returning to her roots. A patchwork of grant and loan funding put together by […]
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Human intervention
That’s right, another human puts things right with the world. That’s Alex Fogg, fairly new to town, prettying and friendly-fying the temporary, dreary walls of plywood flanking the Carson Block Building while it undergoes major rehab. “The Ink People put me up to it,” says Fogg, referring to the artsy outfit which also put him […]