Adventure 003, Site 018- GABLE MANSION

Sherri and the Calif Landmark

Gable Mansion

 Capture California, the Game-2013

Adventure: 003, Site 018- GABLE MANSION

California Landmark Number: 864

Team: YOLT

Date:  August 1, 2013

Location:

Coordinates: 38°40′21.16″N 121°46′22.29″W

Address: 659 1st St, Woodland

Description:

Date Built: 1885

Architect: Edward Carlton "Carl" Gilbert

What a deal! $16,000 for this place! When Sherri and Gary visited this house, we were able to look onto the premises, not tour the grounds. Gable Mansion is a private dwelling, having gone through a series of restorations for the past 40 years. The Gable family owned the house until 1973 when Robert McWhirk bought the mansion and started the rehabilitation project. In 1997, Jeff and Starr Barrow, who bought the 12,000 square foot mansion and has been actively restoring it. In 2012, the Mansion was part of the Woodland Stroll, a historical house tour.

Gable Mansion and Landmark

When Edward Gilbert created the plans for the house in 1885, they were also published in California Architecture and Building News in 1887, a leading trade journal in California. It was a fine example of 19^th century Victorian Italian design. The Gables were early ranchers in the area, raising sheep and cattle on their 8,500 acre ranch.



NO. 864 GABLE MANSION - The Gable Mansion, an outstanding example of 19th-century Victorian Italianate architecture, is one of the last of its style, size, and proportion in California. This structure was built in 1885 for Amos and Harvey Gable, pioneer Yolo County ranchers.
Location: 659-1st St, Woodland



References:

• Wikipedia
  
• Woodland Daily Democrat
  

Overall Landmark References:

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  Landmark

  David Schmitt's California State Historical Landmark (Schmitt)
  
• State of California's California Historical Landmarks (CHL)
  
• Wikipedia: California State Landmarks (WCSL)
  
• State of California Historical Resources (CHR)