![]() ![]() The State Park Commission voted to deny a request by the Monterey County to develop a Master Plan for the Carmel Point beachfront and to widen Scenic Road. She even gave a rare public appearance before the State Park Commission in San Francisco to plead her case. In January 1957, Arthur won a public fight to keep her Driftwood property. Arthur became friends with some of the locals like comic strip cartoonist Gus Arriola and the wife of general Joseph Stilwell who lived a few blocks away on Inspiration Avenue. A Japanese bronze dragon latches the weathered redwood gate. She remodeled the house and created a large outdoor garden, with landscape artist George Hoy, in a Japanese architecture style. She first rented the house from Wells in 1937, and then bought it after World War II. The view, with ocean on three sides, is spectacular.ĭriftwood Cottage became the first Carmel home of actress Jean Arthur (1900–1991) and her mother Johanna Greene. Drifwood, the home of actress Jean Arthur, is a sanctuary set in Carmel, California, fabled for its natural beauty. The weathered redwood frame house is situated on a low bluff that juts out into the Pacfic. The same lots were reported in The Salinas Californian, on June 12, 1940. In June 1938, the Salinas Morning Post, reported that Wells purchased additional lots 22 to 28 on Block B14, and a parcel of land between Scenic Road and the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean. Then, on December 12, 1929, the Pine Cone reported that Wells had returned to her home in Oakland after spending a few weeks at her cottage Driftwood on Carmel Point. The Carmel Pine Cone was tracking Wells comings and goings and on July 12, 1929, reported that Wells was visiting her cottage, Driftwood, out on the Point, and that she would be there several weeks. Fletcher Dutton, poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una, Playwright Charles King Van Riper, musician and attorney Edward G. In 1925, the only homes on Carmel Point were the homes of Col. ![]() In March 1953, Wells sold 8 acres (3.2 ha) of her beach front to the State Park of California under the Beach Acquisition Program. The Sanitary District later dropped the suit. ![]() 31 acres (0.13 ha) of Well's property on Carmel Point, to establish a right of way from the septic tank, across the beach to the rocks in front of the Wells house that would go into the water. Two years later the Carmel Sanitary District Board filed a condemnation suit in the Superior Court for. In 1923, Wells later purchased six acres of the beachfront below her house between Scenic Road and the ocean. Tor House fronts Scenic Drive and the Pacific Ocean a few blocks from Driftwood Cottage. Robinson Jeffers's family moved into Tor House in August 1919. The lot numbers match the Monterey County legal description for the Driftwood 26398 Ocean View address. On June 7, 1911, The Salinas Californian, reported a real estate transaction between the Carmel Development Company and Wells for four lots, 25, 26, 27, 28, and a strip 20 ft (6.1 m) wide off the south-side lots 23 and 24, block B14, addition 7 for $10 (equivalent to $314 in 2022). The area in front of the Wells and Reamer homes was marked on the district charts as "Reamer's Point," and the beach below was called "Reamer's Beach" by those who knew the area at that time. Reamer built a second home on Carmel Point for he and his mother that was across from Wells's cottage. Reamer built the home with his signature lava rock fireplace. A 6 ft (1.8 m) redwood fence borders the grounds for privacy. The floor is covered with blue Japanese slate. There are four rooms in the main house, which open onto an atrium with a glass dome. The main house and guest cottage are connected by a 20 ft (6.1 m) hallway. The 3,000 square feet (280 m 2) home is set on five lots and has two signle-story buildings made of redwood and stone. The property fronted the Carmel River lagoon at a time when the Point was without trees and any other homes. It was the first house to go up on Carmel Point at the southwest corner of Scenic Drive and Ocean View Avenue. Reamer (1864-1938), who they called “Nannu.” George Reamer built a house for Wells, as a summer cottage from a sketch she drew on brown paper. Sara Reamer was the mother of architect George W. Wells (1864-1966), of Oakland, and her cousin Sara E. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake, left many people homeless including a group of writers and artists who relocated to Carmel-by-the-Sea along with poet George Sterling. At that time there were no houses, except the Reamer's and Driftwood Cottage, beyond Philip Wilson's at 14th and San Antonio. Our favorite walk had been along the grass drown track that wound around the Point. In 1919 we built Tor House on a knoll where stones jutting out the treeless moor reminded us of tors on Dartmoor. ![]()
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