The Bernardo Fernandez House is a Victorian mansion located at 100 Tennent Ave in Pinole, California. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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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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House
editThe 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
editBernardo 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
edit- ^ "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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