Wm.Carson House Eureka CA / Joyful226

http://www.ingomar.org/photos-newroof.html For a tour of the inside of this ornate house use the link. It is as eccentric on the inside as it is on the outside. Beautiful but eccentric. This is now owned but a club that will not let anyone but members and their guests onto the property thus one can not normally have an inside tour. It is a little about the owner. William Carson was born at New Brunswick , Canada on July 15,1825. He sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco. He came in search of gold but was not successful at that endeavor. In 1851 He arrived in Humboldt County. In 1852 William bought a team of oxen to cut down huge redwood trees. At that time redwoods were everywhere in Eureka. By 1854 Mr. Carson had built his own lumber which he called the Muley Mill. He felt like a father to the mill men and he took care of them. Carson is famous for his way of cutting down redwoods. He invented the only way to cut them down,at the time. They shipped the wood to San Francisco to build houses. In 1863 Carson entered into partnership with John Dolbeer, a fellow lumberman. Dolbeer invented a "Steam Donkey" engine which was able to pull the logs from the hills down into the water where it would float in the bay to the mill. Mr.Carson was the first mill man to lower the work hours. The work hours used to be 12 hours a day! He changed them to ten hours a day and they only had to work till noon on Sundays.he 1884 Carson Mansion may well be the ultimate Victorian. As one of the most written about, and photographed Victorian houses in California, and perhaps in the United States, the William Carson Mansion epitomizes the range of possibilities for eclectic design expression that created a peculiarly American style of architecture. Built by lumber magnate William Carson to keep 100 of his workers employed during a slump in the timber industry, the mansion’s towers and turrets, columned porches, multiple gables and ornate gingerbread detail—not to mention the paint job—evoke everyone’s ideal of how a Victorian should look. Carson asked the Newsom Brothers, respected San Francisco architects, to design a family home that reflected his business success and social stature. The Newsom's responded with an exuberant design that combined many of the current styles including Italianate, Eastlake, Stick and Queen Anne. The mansion that arose on a bluff overlooking Carson’s lumber mills and docks became the pride of the city, and set the trend for a period of highly ornate architecture in Eureka. In 1864 William Carson married Sarah Wilson who was also from New Brunswick. In 1871 They moved into a house near his mill. It was moved to make way for the now famous Carson Mansion. Work on the mansion began in 1884. Two year's later in 1886 the Carson couple moved in. In his mansion there is wood that his ship had brought from all over the world. It is said Sarah liked her other house better and it also rumored that Sarah haunts the house but who knows about that.

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