| Mary Dummage Shop | |
|---|---|
| White Rabbit | |
 Mary Dummage Shop | |
| Location | Dolores Street btwn. Ocean & 7th Ave., Carmel-by-the-Sea, California |
| Coordinates | 36°33′17″N 121°55′26″W / 36.55472°N 121.92389°W |
| Built | 1926 |
| Built by | Earl Percy Parkes |
| Built for | Mary L. Dummage |
| Original use | Restaurant |
| Current use | Retail store |
| Architect | Percy Parkes |
| Architectural style(s) | Craftsman/Fairy tale |
  Mary Dummage Shop Location of Mary Dummage Shop in Carmel, California | |
The Mary Dummage Shop is a historic Craftsman Fairy tale commercial building in downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It was built in 1926, by builder Percy Parkes. The shop was designated as a significant commercial building in the city's Downtown Historic District Property Survey, and was recorded with the Department of Parks and Recreation on September 13, 2002.[1]
History
In 1926, Earl Percy Parkes built and designed a Craftsman Fairy tale building for Mary L. Dummage, based on Hugh W. Comstock's Tuck Box design, for $1,450 (equivalent to $23,969 in 2022). It is on Dolores Street between Ocean Avenue and 7th Avenue. The building is called the Mary Dummage Shop, and a common name for it was the "White Rabbit," that sold clothing, handknit sweaters, gifts, and home accessories.[2]
The Mary Dummage Shop is a L-shaped one-story, wood-frame building with a steep front and side gabled roof. A Carmel stone partition extends to the eaves of the adjoining building. The building has two fixed glass windows with and a pyramid window above it, and a large multi pane display window. Stucco covers the walls below the roof line. A French style door faces Piccadilly Park to the south. A low Carmel stone wall to the south surrounds a garden area.[1] The ground floor contains the Galante Vineyards Tasting Room retail shop.[1] The Piccadilly Park was established in 1998 on Dolores Street NW of 7th Avenue after the city purchased the Piccadilly Nursery in the early 1980s. Landscaper Walter Guthrie designed the park. There are public restrooms at the rear of the park.[3]
Mary Louise (Pearce) Dummage (1870-1952) was one Carmel's' first residents, settling in Pacific Grove, California in 1889, and buying a Carmel lot in 1903, from James Franklin Devendorf and Frank Hubbard Powers for $300 (equivalent to $9,771 in 2022). She was the daughter of William Wriley Pearce and Emily Elvira Stepp. She married William T. Dummage on November 16, 1913, in Carmel. He was sent to Carmel in 1892, to sell lots for Abbie Jane Hunter who worked for real estate developer Santiago J. Duckworth.[4]
Dummage was a pioneering landowner and businesswoman, who opened Carmel's first restaurant, on a 20' x 30' tent on top of a wood platform in 1903. She acquired lots on the west side of Dolores and was involved in the early development of Carmel. Her sister-in-law, Laura May (Pearce) Wilson, and her husband purchased several parcels along Ocean Avenue and Dolores Street in 1903. The Philip Wilson Building, is a two-story Craftsman style building, that was built in 1905 on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Dolores Street as a real estate office, and in 1916 it became the first official City Hall.[4][5][1]
In 1945, Dummage did a complete store remodel at the north-east corner of the building, with a stucco exterior, interior plaster, rewire, replaced the composition shingle roof, and added a Carmel stone partition for $3,000 (equivalent to $48,765 in 2022) by contractor Michael J. Murphy.[1]
The Mary Dummage Shop qualifies for inclusion in the Downtown Historic District Property Survey because it is an example of the Craftsman Fairy-tale style of architecture popularized in Carmel in the 1920s by master builder Hugh W. Comstock. The building was designed by Earl Percy Parkes in June 1926 at the same time as the Tuck Box, by Comstock, was under construction across the street. These buildings are internationally associated with the city of Carme-by-the-Sea.[1]
First Dummage Shop
Prior to building the Mary Dummage Shop, Dummage hired Parkes to design and build a two-story Pueblo Revival style building in 1924, called the Mary Dummage Shops or the "Corner Cupboard Gift Shop" for $2,500 (equivalent to $42,689 in 2022). It is located on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Dolores Street.[6] It was originally the site of Carmel's first restaurant, which was a tent on a wooden platform. It was built by Frank Devendorf for Mary Dummage in 1903.[1]
The building was designated as a significant commercial building in the city's Downtown Historic District Property Survey, and was registered with the California Register of Historical Resources on November 30, 2002. It qualifies under California Register Criterion 3 as significant for being designed and constructed by Earl Percy Parkes in 1924.[1][7] Today it is the home of the Classic Art Gallery.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Richard N. Janick (September 13, 2002). "Department Of Parks And Recreation" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
- ↑ The White Rabbit bedecked in holiday finery. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 8, 1994. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Dramov, Alissandra (2019). Historic Buildings of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9781467103039. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
- 1 2 Grimes, Teresa; Heumann, Leslie. "Historic Context Statement Carmel-by-the-Sea" (PDF). Leslie Heumann and Associates1994. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 2022-01-18.
- ↑ Dramov, Alissandra (2019). Historic Buildings of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 42–43, 79. ISBN 9781467103039. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
- ↑ Hale, Sharron Lee (1980). A Tribute to Yesterday: The History of Carmel, Carmel Valley, Big Sur, Point Lobos, Carmelite Monastery, and Los Burros. Santa Cruz, California: Valley Publishers. pp. 47, 89, 96. ISBN 9780913548738. Retrieved 2022-04-18.
- ↑ Seavey, Kent (2007). Carmel, A History in Architecture. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 98, 105–106. ISBN 9780738547053. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
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