Come fall in love!”īTW, Doris Day’s sunny yellow house in Carmel is on the market, too: “There are many wonderful iconic details of this home that point out the iconic details to the Comstock legacy and architecture that are bewitching. “A walk through the cottage is like unwrapping a treasure from a bygone era from it’s original Carmel stone fireplace with its niches, the picture pane windows, cozy alcoves, high pitched rooflines, hand carved heart shutters & so much more. “It is the 5th cottage built by the legendary Hugh Comstock & considered to be one of his most delightful homes. It is the epitome of old world charm & character. “You will be utterly delighted by this enchanting storybook cottage! Secluded behind a charming grape stake fence & beautiful rose gardens you’ll discover this magical place. The cottage has 2 bedrooms + 2 baths, with 1,229 square feet. If I had to guess, the long room below was the extension/addition built in the 1950s to connect the main house to the guest cottage in back. Hugh’s experiment in building blossomed into a career, as orders for more fairy tale cottages were requested.Ģ1 of the houses Comstock built in Carmel are still standing, including this one. The blog Adventures of a Hometown Tourist explains:Īs tourists visited Carmel they were drawn to the newest attraction in this charming town, the enchanted doll house in the woods, with high pitched gable roof, hand-whittled trim, stone fireplace, and mullioned windows. You can see it and read more about the tiny “Hansel Cottage” at Tales from Carmel. She requested “a fairy house in the woods.” The first cottage Hugh built was a store where his new wife could display her dolls. When he was 31, he traveled to Carmel to visit his sister and fell in love with Mayotta Browne, who had created a popular doll called the Otsy-Totsy. Hugh Comstock wasn’t trained as an architect or drawing, but he had natural artistic talent. The cottage has 2 fireplaces, including this one in the living room: The front entrance to Our House is positioned on the side of the property.Ī “twin” to Our House was built by Comstock in 1929 on Casanova and Palou named Sunwise Turn. The exterior wall cladding is textured stucco over felt, instead of burlap. Spot this and you will know you have the correct house (shown above).Ĭomstock’s architectural signature can be seen in the steeply pitched roof and Carmel stone fireplace. From Santa Fe depending on the time of year you will be able to see different parts of this cottage over the grape-stake fence and high shrubs.īut one window always seems to be visible, winter, spring, summer or fall, the narrow arched three-light casement window with braced wood shutter of the same shape with heart-shaped cut out. Our House cottage was designed by Hugh Comstock in 1928 for Elizabeth Armstrong and built for $1,900. It’s half-timbered and bright with whimsy, its roofline pitched toward the heavens, the stone chimney haphazardly stacked as if by mischievous elves. As if under a spell, they all appear to be blooming at once.Īnd then around a corner, like a gift, sits a wee cottage. It’s peaceful here, the loudest sound the boom of the ocean, which the little town slopes inexorably, if gently, toward.Įverywhere, sprouting from window boxes in the jewel-like downtown and around the tiny, perfect houses, are flowers. On the shores of a briny deep, under skies so blue and clear they resemble tears, there perches a village with the magical name of Carmel-by-the-Sea. I came across this romantic description of Carmel in Enchanted Living Magazine: It looks much the same as it must have when it was built in the 1920s, although the main house was connected to the guest house by an addition in 1958. The cottages in Carmel are known by their names rather than by typical street addresses, and this one is called “Our House.” This was the 5th cottage built by Hugh Comstock, who was known for building small houses that looked like something out of a fairy tale. It hasn’t been photographed very often because it’s difficult to see much of it from the street. I was excited to see that this charmingly quirky pink house with window boxes is for sale, giving us a chance to peek inside. For a lot of us, the cottages of Carmel-by-the-Sea are the stuff that dreams are made of.
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