Amelia Gates Building
| Amelia Gates Building | |
|---|---|
 Amelia Gates Building | |
| Location | Ocean Ave & Monte Verde St, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California |
| Coordinates | 36°33′17″N 121°55′27″W / 36.55472°N 121.92417°W |
| Built | 1928 |
| Built by | Fred McCrary |
| Built for | Investment property |
| Current use | Retail store |
| Architect | Dr. Amelia Gates |
| Architectural style(s) | Tudor Revival |
| Website | www |
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The Amelia Gates Building is a historic two-story wood-framed Tudor Revival style commercial building in downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The building is significant as one of the two known designs by Dr. Amelia Gates. The building qualified as an important commercial building in the city's downtown historic district property survey and was registered with the California Register of Historical Resources on February 13, 2002.[1] The building is occupied by the Kashmir Treasures and the MEUSE art gallery.
History
Dr. Amelia Gates, a pioneer pediatrician, designed and supervised the construction of the two-story commercial building as a retirement investment property. It was like those she had seen in her travels to Europe. It was built by Fred McCrary of Pacific Grove, California in 1928. It is located on Ocean Avenue & Monte Verde Street, at the west end of the Court of the Golden Bough Playhouse. The two-story wood-framed Tudor Revival style commercial building has a clinker brick veneer with textured cement stucco, with half-timbering on the upper floor. It has a parried steep-pitched roof, with a clinker brick exterior wall chimney. An open wood staircase leads to the top floor that was used as a studio apartment. It has three shop entrances along Ocean Avenue.[1][2][3]
The building qualified for inclusion in the city's Downtown Historic District Property Survey, and was registered with the California Register of Historical Resources on December 13, 2002. The building is significant under the California Register criterion 3, in architecture as one of the two known designs by Dr. Amelia Gates. It has the design of the "Old World" character of Edward G. Kuster's Court of the Golden Bough Playhouse, which it is next to.[1]
Amelia Gates
Dr. Amelia Levinson Gates (1866-1947), a pioneer San Francisco pediatrician. She was a native of Gdańsk, Germany, the daughter of Louis Levinson (1824-1877) and Rosalia Waldstein (1830-1904). She came to America when she was a child. Gates and her husband, Dr. Howard Gates met as student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.[4] They shared a practice in San Jose, California. The had one child, Harold Keith Gates (1909-1978).[5][6]
She first came to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in 1910 where she constructed a cabin on a parcel the couple owned on El Camino Real. Her husband died in Rome in 1913. Amelia returned to San Francisco where she pioneered in preventative care for children and helped establish the Florence Ward hospital in San Francisco. She retired in Carmel in 1922. There, she replaced the early cabin on El Camino Real with a cottage of her own design, now called the Dr. Amelia Gates Cottage.[6][7][1]
She died of cardiovascular disease, at her home on El Camino Real, on June 2, 1947, at the age of 81, in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Private services were held at the Paul Chapel in Pacific Grove and internment at the Oak Hill Funeral Home in San Jose.[6][4] She left an estate valued at $147,420 (equivalent to $2,011,591 in 2023), and established a $5,000 (equivalent to $68,227 in 2023) fund for Stanford University School of Medicine to be known as the Howard Gates Loan Fund to aid medical students.[8]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Kent L. Seavey (February 13, 2002). "Department Of Parks And Recreation" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
- ^ Seavey, Kent (2007). Carmel, A History in Architecture. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. p. 74. ISBN 9780738547053. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
{{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. p. 74. ISBN 9781467103039. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "The Journal of the American Medical Association". American Medical Association. 135 (4): 239. 27 Sep 1947. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ "Historical Information for Amelia G. Levinson". FamilySearch. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Gates Passes Away at Carmel". The Californian. Salinas, California. 3 Jun 1947. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ "Dr. Amelia Gates". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. 6 June 1947. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ "Dr. Amelia Gates Estate $147,420". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. 31 Dec 1947. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
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