Mary Dummage Shop

Mary Dummage Shop
Mary Dummage Shop
White Rabbit
	Mary Dummage Shop
Location	Dolores Street btwn. Ocean & 7th Ave., Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Coordinates	36°33′17″N121°55′26″W / 36.55472°N 121.92389°W
Built	1926;98 years ago
Built by	Earl Percy Parkes
Built for	Mary L. Dummage
Original use	Restaurant
Current use	Retail store
Architect	Percy Parkes
Architectural style(s)	Craftsman/Fairy tale
	Mary Dummage Shop Location of Mary Dummage Shop in Carmel, California

Last updated January 22, 2024

The Mary Dummage Shop is a historic Craftsman Fairy tale commercial building in downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It was built in 1926, by builder Percy Parkes. The shop was designated as a significant commercial building in the city's Downtown Historic District Property Survey, and was recorded with the Department of Parks and Recreation on September 13, 2002.^[1]

History

In 1926, Earl Percy Parkes built and designed a Craftsman Fairy tale building for Mary L. Dummage, based on Hugh W. Comstock's Tuck Box design, for $1,450 (equivalent to $23,969in 2022). It is on Dolores Street between Ocean Avenue and 7th Avenue. The building is called the Mary Dummage Shop, and a common name for it was the "White Rabbit," that sold clothing, handknit sweaters, gifts, and home accessories.^[2]

The Mary Dummage Shop is a L-shaped one-story, wood-frame building with a steep front and side gabled roof. A Carmel stone partition extends to the eaves of the adjoining building. The building has two fixed glass windows with and a pyramid window above it, and a large multi pane display window. Stucco covers the walls below the roof line. A French style door faces Piccadilly Park to the south. A low Carmel stone wall to the south surrounds a garden area.^[1] The ground floor contains the Galante Vineyards Tasting Room retail shop.^[1] The Piccadilly Park was established in 1998 on Dolores Street NW of 7th Avenue after the city purchased the Piccadilly Nursery in the early 1980s. Landscaper Walter Guthrie designed the park.^[3]

In 1945, Dummage did a complete store remodel at the north-east corner of the building, with a stucco exterior, interior plaster, rewire, replaced the composition shingle roof, and added a Carmel stone partition for $3,000 (equivalent to $48,765in 2022) by contractor Michael J. Murphy.^[1]

The Mary Dummage Shop qualifies for inclusion in the Downtown Historic District Property Survey because it is an example of the Craftsman Fairy-tale style of architecture popularized in Carmel in the 1920s by master builder Hugh W. Comstock. The building was designed by Earl Percy Parkes in June 1926 at the same time as the Tuck Box, by Comstock, was under construction across the street. These buildings are internationally associated with the city of Carme-by-the-Sea.^[1]

First Dummage Shop

Prior to building the Mary Dummage Shop, Dummage hired Parkes to design and build a two-story Pueblo Revival style building in 1924, called the Mary Dummage Shops or the "Corner Cupboard Gift Shop" for $2,500 (equivalent to $42,689in 2022). It is located on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Dolores Street.^[4] It was originally the site of Carmel's first restaurant, which was a tent on a wooden platform. It was built by Frank Devendorf for Mary Dummage in 1903.^[1]

The building was designated as a significant commercial building in the city's Downtown Historic District Property Survey, and was registered with the California Register of Historical Resources on November 30, 2002. It qualifies under California Register Criterion 3 as significant for being designed and constructed by Earl Percy Parkes in 1924.^[1]^[5]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Richard N. Janick (September 13, 2002). "Department Of Parks And Recreation" (PDF). National Park Service . Retrieved April 5, 2022.
↑ The White Rabbit bedecked in holiday finery. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 8, 1994. Retrieved 2022-04-23.{{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: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9781467103039 . Retrieved 2022-04-20.
↑ Hale, Sharron Lee (1980). A Tribute to Yesterday: The History of Carmel, Carmel Valley, Big Sur, Point Lobos, Carmelite Monastery, and Los Burros. Santa Cruz, California: Valley Publishers. pp. 47, 89, 96. ISBN 9780913548738 . Retrieved 2022-04-18.
↑ Seavey, Kent (2007). Carmel, A History in Architecture. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 98, 105–106. ISBN 9780738547053 . Retrieved 2022-04-16.

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[DPR-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Richard N. Janick (September 13, 2002). "Department Of Parks And Recreation" (PDF). National Park Service . Retrieved April 5, 2022.

[2] The White Rabbit bedecked in holiday finery. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 8, 1994. Retrieved 2022-04-23.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[3] Dramov, Alissandra (2019). Historic Buildings of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9781467103039 . Retrieved 2022-04-20.

[Hale-4] Hale, Sharron Lee (1980). A Tribute to Yesterday: The History of Carmel, Carmel Valley, Big Sur, Point Lobos, Carmelite Monastery, and Los Burros. Santa Cruz, California: Valley Publishers. pp. 47, 89, 96. ISBN 9780913548738 . Retrieved 2022-04-18.

[Seavey-5] Seavey, Kent (2007). Carmel, A History in Architecture. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 98, 105–106. ISBN 9780738547053 . Retrieved 2022-04-16.

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v t e List of Historic Buildings in Carmel-by-the-Sea
Downtown buildings	Adam Fox Building Amelia Gates Building Bank of Carmel Bernard Wetzel Building Blue Bird Tea Room Carmel City Hall Carmel Development Company Building Carmel Fire Station Carmel Weavers Studio Carmel-by-the-Sea World War I Memorial Arch De Yoe Building Devendorf Park Doud Building Draper Leidig Building El Paseo Building "El Paseo" Jo Mora Sculpture Enchanted Oaks Building Fee Building Garden Shop Addition Goold Building Harrison Memorial Library Isabel Leidig Building Kocher Building La Rambla Building La Ribera Hotel Las Tiendas Building Lemos Building Mary Dummage Shop Monterey County Trust & Savings Building Oakes Building Percy Parkes Building Pine Inn Reardon Building Sade's Schweninger Building Seven Arts Building Seven Arts Shop Spinning Wheel Restaurant Sundial Lodge T.A. Oakes Building The Tuck Box W. C. Farley Building Wilson Building
Other buildings	Abbie Jane Hunter House American Legion Post No. 512 Butterfly House Carmel Art Association Carl Cherry Center for the Arts David Starr Jordan House First Murphy House Forest Theater Golden Bough Theater Grace MacGowan Cooke House La Playa Hotel Mission Ranch Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mrs. Clinton Walker House Murphy's Barn Normandy Inn Outlands in the Eighty Acres Richardson Log Cabin Sunset Center Tor House and Hawk Tower Vernon Kellogg House Whalers Cabin
Designer/architect	Blaine & Olsen Frederick Bigland Albert Cauldwell Albert B. Coats Hugh W. Comstock Dene Denny Albert L. Farr Amelia L. Gates Lee Gottfried Greene and Greene Henry Hill Robert R. Jones Chris Jorgensen Guy O. Koepp Pedro J. Lemos Bernard Maybeck Samuel J. Miller Jo Mora Thomas W. Morgan Michael J. Murphy Percy Parkes Robert Stanton Swartz & Ryland Hazel Watrous H. H. Winner & Co. Thomas Albert Work Frank Lloyd Wright William Wurster Frank Wynkoop
Builder/contractor	Ernest Bixler Hugh W. Comstock Delos Goldsmith Lee Gottfried Samuel J. Miller Michael J. Murphy Thomas A. Oakes Percy Parkes Fred Ruhl A. Carlyle Stoney