Raiguel Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Valley Building Photos
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2023
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Title: Raiguel Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Valley Building Photos
Dates: ca. 1926-1940
Collection Number: PHO 905.3
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 2 albums : 36 prints each; 5 unattached prints, 25 x 32 cm.
Repository:
Monterey Public Library
Monterey, California 93940
Abstract: William O. Raiguel was born in Freehold, New Jersey in 1875. He studied design in California after the San Francisco earthquake
in 1906 and became a partner in the architectural firm of John Galen Howard, which was responsible for several new buildings
on the University of California, Berkeley campus in the aftermath of the earthquake, including Boalt Hall and Wheeler Auditorium.
After service in World War I, Raiguel returned to San Francisco, working for Gladding McBean & Co. Clay products, and then
moved to the Monterey Peninsula in 1926, where he took the position of supervising architect for the Del Monte Properties
Co., as well as working independently. Among his local buildings are: the Monterey Chamber of Commerce on Munras Ave., the
Monterey Post Office, the Mission Memorial Mausoleum, and the Clubhouse of the Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Course.
Language of Material: English
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[Identification of item]. Raiguel Monterey Peninsula and Carmel Valley Building Photos. Collection Number: PHO 905.3. Monterey
Public Library
Bequest of the estate of William O. Raiguel.
Scope and Content of Collection
Consists of two albums (the 2nd is a duplicate copy) of 36 photographic prints, and five loose prints. The album images are
composed of exterior and interior (in some buildings) views of 11 houses, 2 schools, 2 Pebble Beach gate houses, the Beach
Club at Pebble Beach, a garage at Hotel Del Monte, a guest cottage at the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, "San Clements Dude
Ranch" guest house, a "hut" at Indian Village (Del Monte Forest), and buildings for the Del Monte Riding Club and the Monterey
Chamber of Commerce-all designed by W. O. Raiguel, Architect, from the mid 1920s through the 1930s. The five loose prints
show an addition to Colton Hall in Monterey (2 views), the front and rear views of the Girl Scout House at Lake El Estero,
Monterey, and of an unidentified single story building. Arranged chronologically.
Architecture
Architectural Design
William O. Raiguel
Samuel F. B. Morse
Monterey Chamber of Commerce
Del Monte Properties
Hotel Del Monte
Monterey Peninsula
Postcards
Photograph Albums
Black-and-White Photograph