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Kostura, Mills Act nomination for 731 Edgewood Road, Redwood City clapboard siding and garage doors, turning it into a garage. The roofs of both the house and the garage were replaced. Minor work on the house is documented by building permits. It included termite repairs (1959), electrical work (1989), replacement of the house’s roof shingles by Hardishake shingles (1996), replacement of the carport roof (1999), and a private water supply and well (2014). The current owners state that the house no longer has access to this water supply. Historic context on the Monterey Revival style The subject house’s primary style features are its front porch and balcony with chamfered posts, and the restrained classical treatment of the entrance. These elements are vital to the Monterey Revival style, which was a twentieth century adaptation of the earlier Monterey Colonial style. Buildings in the Monterey Colonial style were built in several places in California during the period of Mexican rule, but the largest number of them were located in Monterey, hence the style name. About seven surviving Mexican-era and early Gold Rush houses in Monterey possess wooden balconies that stretch across the entire front of the building and sometimes wrap around onto a second or third side. These balconies are either two stories in height or are cantilevered from the second story, overhanging the first. Collectively, these and other early houses constitute the Monterey State Historic Park. Similar buildings were also built in other northern California cities at the same time, for instance in San Juan Batista and outside of Petaluma. Some of them were built for Mexican owners, and some were built for Mexican-era immigrants to California from the United States. By far the largest is the Petaluma Adobe of 1836, built for Mariana Vallejo. Its two-story balcony wraps around all three of the building’s wings. The building has a Wikipedia entry with describes it as “the largest example of the Monterey Colonial style of architecture in the United States.” The subject house’s porch and balcony most closely resembles that of the Larkin House in Monterey. That house was built in 1835 by Thomas Oliver Larkin, a New England merchant who relocated to Monterey in 1832. There, Larkin opened a store, built two saw mills and a wharf at Monterey harbor, and built four buildings that still stand, namely, the Larkin House, a custom house, and two smaller houses. The Larkin House is two stories in height and is built with a wooden frame and adobe walls. Its two-story balcony and porch wraps around three sides of the house and has an expansive feeling. Its wooden posts with chamfered corners and the second floor balcony railing are very similar to the same features in the present house. Another Monterey house with details similar to the subject house is the Cooper Adobe. This was built as one-story in 1832, and the second story was added in 1850. Though the balcony 9 9.A. - Page 78 of 247 336