Bernardo Fernandez House

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Bernardo Fernandez House
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Nearest city Pinole, California
Coordinates 38°0′39.92″N122°17′45.06″W / 38.0110889°N 122.2958500°W / 38.0110889; -122.2958500
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
ArchitectUnrecorded
Architectural styleVictorian, Second Empire, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne.
NRHP reference No. 73000399 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 11, 1973
Bernardo Fernandez House in 2008 Bernardo Fernandez House (Pinole, CA).JPG
Bernardo Fernandez House in 2008

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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House

The 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

Bernardo 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 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]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Bernardo Fernandez House, 73000399". National Register of Historic Places. November 1972.
  3. 1 2 3 Louise Rafkin (July 23, 2011). "The Fernandez Mansion". The Bay Citizen via The New York Times.
  4. 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.
  5. 1 2 "25. Fernandez Mansion" (PDF). Walking Tour. Pinole Historical Society. p. 6. Retrieved December 18, 2018.
  6. "Bernardo Fernandez House". California State Parks, Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved December 23, 2018.