Hotel Carmel at the corner of Ocean and San Carlos Street was built in 1898.
The large two-story wood-shingled Hotel Carmel was built in 1898 by pioneer D. W. Johnson on the corner of San Carlos Street and Ocean Avenue.[3]
The hotel was purchased by Dr. A. A. Canfield, who managed it, and later purchased by Charles O. Goold. In 1916, Goold rented the hotel space to various businesses such as the Lucky Boy Market, the Erickson's Carmel Dairy, and to Kenneth Wood for his real estate office.[4]
On July 25, 1931, the Goold building was badly damaged by a fire that started in the antic of the building. Goold died on December 2, 1931, and the site remained vacant until 1935.[5]
New Goold building
Goold Building stairs on San Carlos StreetGoold Building in Carmel, California
A new Goold Building was built in July 1935. It is a large two-story concrete rectangular Spanish Colonial Revival style commercial building located at the same location on Ocean Avenue and San Carlos Street. It was built for Goold's wife Mary A. Goold, son Kenneth Goold, and Amy J. Goold. A grand opening of the building was announced in the July 12, 1934 Carmel Pine Cone with Carmel's first home-owned dime-store, operated by Victor D. Graham. Bostick & Wood occupied a large space on the corner of the building.[6][4]
Two parts of the building, on the San Carlos Street side, are joined by a skylighted staircase, with Moorish tile risers and wrought iron gate, that leads to the top floor that were once used as apartments for the Goold family. They became offices for the Carmel Pine Cone from 1970 to 2000. The section of the building facing Ocean Avenue was designed by architect Guy O. Koepp and built by master builder Michael J. Murphy in 1935.[7] The building has a Spanish tiled hipped roof with overhanging eaves with a Monterey style balcony that wraps around the corner and supported by curved wooded corbels. The ground floor has a recessed corner entrance and deep-set display windows with white concrete walls. The upper floor has multi-pane windows. In 1988, a second story addition was added on the north end of the building with Spanish detail of the 1935 structure.[1]
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 February 3, 2003. The building qualifies under the California Register criterion 3, in architecture as a significant example of Spanish Colonial Revival and Monterey Colonial styles.[1]
