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Title: [James Wesley Calkins home]
Creator: Rea, W. J
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1998-0320.
View of two-story home with three-story tower on left side; man standing on pediment over lower story window, working on second story window; another man on the roof; two sets of chimneys on roof; rectangular and arched windows; balustrades around porch and under tower windows; ornate details around roof.
Built for James Wesley Calkins in 1878 or 1880; owned by Thomas J.P. and Georgiana Lacy around turn of the century; finally purchased in 1923 by University Club of Santa Barbara who extensively remodeled the building, changing the house from Victorian-style to Spanish-Colonial Revival style. Building has been variously called - Calkin's Castle, Lacy House, Riviera Mansion. Located at 1332 Santa Barbara Street.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photgraphic print : cabinet card ; 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001377338CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0559
Language: English
Subject: Calkins, John Wesley--Homes and haunts--Photographs
Lacy, Thomas J.P.--Homes and haunts--Photographs
Mansions--California--Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Cabinet photographs
Place: California
Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara (Calif.)

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