Bernardo Fernandez House | |
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| Nearest city | Pinole, California |
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| Coordinates | 38°0′39.92″N 122°17′45.06″W / 38.0110889°N 122.2958500°W |
| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Architect | Unrecorded |
| Architectural style | Victorian, Second Empire, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne. |
| NRHP reference No. | 73000399 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1973 |
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The Bernardo Fernandez House is a Victorian mansion located at 100 Tenant Ave in Pinole, California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
House
The house is wood frame in French Second Empire style, an unusual architectural style in the area, with elements of Queen Anne and Northern Italian. [2] [3] The main structure is decorated with stick trim panels; brackets above the tall two-over-two windows on the first floor support window hoods and eaves, and the central pavilion has a mansard roof [4] with arched dormer windows. A full-height slanted bay on the left side has a pedimented gable roof. [5]
History
Bernardo Fernandez, a pioneer resident of Contra Costa County, had the house built as his third residence in about 1894; [5] its predecessors were destroyed by a flood and a fire. [3] Dr. Joseph Mariotti bought the house in 1969; as of 2020 [update] the family still lives there, raising chickens, geese, and ducks on the grounds, which also house a 1965 Ford Thunderbird, a 1950 Bentley, and Fernandez's 52-foot schooner Carlotta, named for his wife, which sank at the dock in the early 1900s and was raised in 1976 by the Ship Lifters of Pinole (SLOP). [3]
The house was listed in 1973 on the Contra Costa Inventory of Historic Places [6] and the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Bernardo Fernandez House, 73000399". National Register of Historic Places. November 1972.
- ^ a b c Louise Rafkin (July 23, 2011). "The Fernandez Mansion". The Bay Citizen – via The New York Times.
- ^ Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny; Beth A. Armstrong (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith. p. 349. ISBN 9781586854324.
- ^ a b "25. Fernandez Mansion" (PDF). Walking Tour. Pinole Historical Society. p. 6. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
- ^ "Bernardo Fernandez House". California State Parks, Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
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