Albert "Bert" Grindle Stone inside his family's jewelry and clock store located on the south side of Main Street in Mendocino. Bert is dressed in a suit and tie and stands on the right, behind chest-high, glass-topped display cases filled with jewelry and other goods. A row of clocks sits on a long wall shelf behind him. A row of electric light bulbs with glass shades [...]
A westward view of Main Street in Mendocino in 1883. A pair of mules pulls a wagon down the graded dirt street lined with wooden sidewalks. On the right is a two-story building occupied by Walker's Saloon and Restaurant, which became the Alhambra Hotel after Duncan Walker died suddenly on April 26, 1883 of tuberculosis. Farther down the street beyond the small tree is Central House, [...]
Daisy Henderson, 1922. February was always the best month of Daisy Henderson’s short life. The other months weren’t quite so kind. Born in Mendocino on February 18, 1899, Daisy was the middle child and only daughter of James Albert and Daisy Gregor Henderson. She and her brothers attended the Mendocino Grammar and High Schools. Growing up, Daisy performed in school plays, sang solos at [...]
Early view of Mendocino looking southwest along Main Street toward the Shipping Point with stacks of lumber waiting to be loaded. The small white dwelling in the foreground is a Chinese dwelling, and is behind the Chung Kow Wash House, which is not visible to the left. A total of three Chinese buildings are on this one lot, according to the 1894 Sanborn map. This lot [...]
The wreck of the S. S. Samoa (Emery Escola Collection, Kelley House Museum) Falling apart at the seams? That’s what happened a little over a century ago to a coastal steamer belonging to the Caspar Lumber Company. The Samoa carried a crew of twenty-one men and 380,000 feet of lumber on the morning of January 28, 1913. She was making her usual run from [...]
M. M. Hazeltine's photograph of the west end of Mendocino's Main Street, looking northwest, taken before the fire of 1870. Identified buildings from back to front: the Mendocino Lumber Company Cookhouse (chimney on roof) and millworker's cabins, William Heeser's general store, and Carlson's City Hotel with balcony. William Kelly's store is next to Chamberlain's "Mendocino Drug Store,” which was located on the northwest corner of [...]
MacCallum Water Tower and Kelley Baptist Church, 1908-1956. A view from Albion Street looking north at the rear elevation of the Kelley Baptist Church (right) and on the left the MacCallum water tower with windmill. An ornate picket fence along Albion Street encloses the garden of the MacCallum house. (Gift of Margaret Kelley Campbell) February 15, 1903 - Mrs. Eliza Kelley rang the new [...]
Photograph and pennant commemorating the service of the Frank Mendosa Family during World War I. The pennant was presented to Frank Mendosa, Sr. for having five sons serve in the Armed Forces during a time of war. On the left side is an official photograph of President Woodrow Wilson, and on the right side is the pennant of white satin with a red border. Five [...]
Interior of the South Main Meat Market, c. 1920. (Kelley House Collection, Kelley House Photographs) In 1874, Dudley O. Philbrick left the employ of the Mendocino Lumber Company to open a meat market in Mendocino. Philbrick constructed a building on the south side of Main Street across from the intersection of Main and Kasten Streets. The lumber company, which owned the property, supplied the [...]
A view of Main Street in Mendocino, c. 1920, looking west. On the right or north side of the street, the Central Hotel with its balcony can be seen in the front right of the photograph. Next to it is the former OK Saloon, then the Pioneer Drugstore Building, then the Remedy Store, then the two-story Jarvis-Nichols Building that had Burtt Elliott's General Store at this [...]