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- Created: March 17, 2023 4:12 am
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At the time of its construction in in 1888, the Graham House at the head of Ninth Street was described as occupying “the same elevated position as does the residence of William Carson at the head of Second Street in Eureka.” Perhaps “elevated position” referred to both the physical location and the social/economic status of the owners. There were similarities between Willam Carson and Frank Graham as both were natives of New Brunswick and both were involved in the timber interests of Humboldt County. A man of more modest means than Carson, Graham, nonetheless, contributed a fine Queen Anne house with rich Eastlake detail to Arcata’s architectural heritage. Patterned shingles, complex roofline, corner tower and cutaway bays are Queen Anne elements, but the ornate entrance pavilion and decorative products of the chisel, the gouge and the lathe are Eastlake. Look for knobs, lattice work, carved panels on the tower (a similar tower with panes is found on the Bair House, 13th and I), curved and grooved brackets, incised window mouldings, an ornate porch of grooved columns and a row of “furniture-leg” forms.
At the time of its construction in in 1888, the Graham House at the head of Ninth Street was described as occupying “the same elevated position as does the residence of William Carson at the head of Second Street in Eureka.” Perhaps “elevated position” referred to both the physical location and the social/economic status of the owners. There were similarities between Willam Carson and Frank Graham as both were natives of New Brunswick and both were involved in the timber interests of Humboldt County. A man of more modest means than Carson, Graham, nonetheless, contributed a fine Queen Anne house with rich Eastlake detail to Arcata’s architectural heritage. Patterned shingles, complex roofline, corner tower and cutaway bays are Queen Anne elements, but the ornate entrance pavilion and decorative products of the chisel, the gouge and the lathe are Eastlake. Look for knobs, lattice work, carved panels on the tower (a similar tower with panes is found on the Bair House, 13th and I), curved and grooved brackets, incised window mouldings, an ornate porch of grooved columns and a row of “furniture-leg” forms.