Studio photograph of the Kenny - Boyle family, c. 1888. Seated in front, L to R: Thomas Kenny (step-father) and Mary Brien Boyle Kenny, mother of the children. Standing in back, L to R: Mary "Mayme" Burke, Charles "Charlie" Boyle, Francis "Babe" Brooks, Jennifer "Jennie" Jennings, and Walter "Fred" Boyle. (William and Marie Ferrill Collection) March 7, 1940 - Charles Boyle died at his [...]
Photograph of people loaded in an open wagon with a three-horse team in front of the Occidental Hotel on Main Street in Mendocino. Other people are on the porch and balcony of the hotel. The hotel's livery stable is on the left, and its water tower and windmill are behind the structures. The steeple of the Mendocino Presbyterian church is visible on the far left. The [...]
The wedding of Fernando Maurice Fraga and Elise Marian Pimentel on May 7, 1916 in Mendocino. The two families gathered for a photograph. March 4, 1975 - Fernando Fraga passed away at his home on Calpella Street at the age of 83. He had been a Mendocino resident for 65 years and worked for the Union Lumber Company for 50 years prior to [...]
Sanborn Map of 1890 showing the location of an early Chinese laundry near the corner of Redwood Avenue and Macpherson Street in Fort Bragg. (Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California . Sanborn Map Company, Nov, 1890. Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn00551_001/.) The earliest documentation of the Chinese presence in Mendocino County is clearly shown in the town of Mendocino. It would seem the natural [...]
An elevated view of central Mendocino probably taken from the water tower belonging to the Sempione Hotel, formerly the Lisbon House, 1909-1912. This is a view to the east, looking across Kasten Street and down Albion Street. On the left, the roof of the John Dougherty House is visible, with its small water tank in the back yard to the right. Behind the John Dougherty House [...]
Man and child standing in front of an ocean cave at low tide. Caption on back of photo, "This is a cave in Cape Mendocino 9 miles from here. Taken March 1, 1898. That's the ocean back of those boys." (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) Mendocino from the Beginning: Twenty Billion Years of History of a Small Town by Don and Wilma Tucker - A [...]
View of businesses on the north side of Main Street in Mendocino, looking westward, c. 1883. The two-story J. D. Murray Drug Store is the structure on the far left. To its right is the Chung Kow Wash House and Laundry, which was located on the northwest corner of Kasten and Main Streets. Both buildings have been demolished, with the Laundry being replaced by a bank [...]
M. M. Hazeltine photograph of west Main Street in Mendocino, c.1863. J. E. Carlson's City Hotel can be seen on the left. Right of the hotel was a livery stables and another three-story building that was probably the saloon and hotel owned by Silas Osborn and Fred Heldt. On the south side of the street is a large building that is thought to house Joel [...]
Second Grade Class of the Mendocino Grammar School, 1921. Front row L-R: Delphine Valenti, Katherine Silva, Lebania DeSilva, Marie Christiansen, Ruth Knack, Katie Lawrence, Thelma Barnes, Buster Salvador, Domingo Valador, Laura Nichols 2nd row: John Granskog, Harold Hee, Dolores Silveria, Kenneth Maxwell, Pete Donoho, Louie Fratis, unidentified, James Paoli, Arthur Moilenan, Rose Silva, Sarah Prentiss 3rd row: Jesse Paoli, Janet Nystrom, ? Norberry, Herman Costa, [...]
Map illustrating the extent of the Albion Branch of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (“Western Railroader” by Stanley T. Borden, Vol. 24, No. 12. December 1961, Issue No. 264) Questions about the Albion Lumber Company’s miles of railroad on the Mendocino Coast have been popping up at the Kelley House Museum recently. Here’s a review of how this little-known railroad came to be, what it [...]