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'The Annie Nugent House' near Watsonville is up for sale.
WATSONVILLE - A property owner here and his wife are putting up for sale an opulent restored Victorian house whose troubled past, while it hasn't resulted in any ghost sightings to date, does have an occasional unexplained noise.
"Every once in awhile we'll hear something we can't identify, like a thump noise, or an occasional creak in the attic," said Max Kelley, owner of the home on Rancho Brazil Lane (off Whiting Road) near Watsonville.
The house, described as a Queen Anne Victorian, is called "The Annie Nugent House" for its original owner. Annie Nugent was the widow of a well-to-do former Irish immigrant, Lawrence S. Nugent. After he died, Nugent commissioned a renowned architect, William Weeks, to build a house for her and her two children, Mary and James Nugent.
Originally on 100 acres, the home was the scene of a grisly murder in 1903. Mary Nugent, fiance of a local attorney, was shot by a cousin who had been attempting to bilk the family out of money. The man hid in a closet on the second floor of the home when police surrounded it. They opened fire from the yard, hitting the man through the closed closet door. He staggered outside and was gunned down.
The scandal and murder were reported in San Francisco newspapers of the period and the bullet holes in the home can still be seen today.
"There is a barn on the property and I was out there looking from some trim pieces," Kelley said. "I've done a lot of trim work as part of the restoration. I saw a board with holes in it and found one of the bullets embedded in the wood."
The home was also reportedly a brothel in the 1960s.
The Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 knocked the home off its foundation. It was cut into 14 pieces, moved to its present site on 3.5 acres, and reassembled by Jim Rector, owner of Cypress Construction in Watsonville.
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Boca Raton has been given an ultimatum: Sign the agreement to restore Lake Wyman by June 30 or lose the project.
Robert Robbins, director of Palm Beach County's environmental resources management, said in a letter delivered Monday that if the city doesn't sign, a $1.5 million grant from the Florida Inlet Navigation District will be returned.
"After June 30, we will have lost the opportunity to construct the project," Robbins wrote.
The makeover would overhaul the area, where silt and overgrown vegetation have made high tide the only time a canoe can glide through trails winding through Lake Wyman's mangroves.
It would also expand a boardwalk, plant sea grass and provide recreational docks.
But neighborhood opposition particularly from the Golden Harbour Neighborhood Association prompted both the City Council and the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District last month to seek more study before committing to their $383,167 share of the $2.9 million project.
They say the project potentially harms manatees, impedes water flow and, with the building of a maintenance road, creates privacy problems.
Lake Wyman Park, an 8.3-acre, city-owned park, is located along the western side of the Intracoastal Waterway, adjacent to the James A. Rutherford Park. The city used to rent canoes there, but hasn't since existing vegetation became too thick.
Boca Raton Mayor Susan Whelchel said Tuesday if the park district isn't in the effort, neither is the city.
"We could not see our way clear unless [the district] contributes their half," Whelchel said.
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Project people are the Jenkinses, but no project has been more satisfying for the couple than the restoration of their historic Arrowtown convent home.
Alan and Kath Jenkins moved from Auckland eight years ago, after holidaying in Arrowtown for several years.
"We used to holiday down here and loved it. One day, we just said, 'Why are we going back?
"We love it down here'," Mrs Jenkins said.
Suckers for punishment, the couple did not just want to buy and move in, they wanted something they could work at and the old church convent on Merioneth St was just the challenge they wanted.
"It was quite run-down. The state of it was just appalling," she said.
"We wanted a project and had previously restored villas, something with a bit of history and character," he said.
The cottage certainly had the history. The cottage was built in the early 1870s and was home to Arrowtown's only lawyer at the time, Henry Stratford. It was bought by the Catholic Church in the 1890s and used as a home for nuns until the 1940s.
The Church had added two bedrooms on the northern side of the house and a music room. The original rooms remain and a lot of the original material and stone is still intact.
In 2004, the couple bought the property and have since added to it, built around it and made the old cottage into a home.
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COLLEGE POINT, NY--(Marketwire -06/05/12)- Weather analysts and news agencies are closely following the wildfires that are currently spreading across the southwest region of America. Wildfire seasons have caused violent destruction to lives, property and land throughout U.S. history. While most forest fires are a natural occurrence, citizens are urged to take preventative steps to avoid these chaotic events and help rebuild devastated communities. Despite the efforts of firefighters, the intense heat of fire is enough to cause structural damage. Mascon Restoration is one company based in New York that helps revitalize these impaired structures.
One article from MSNBC traces the current state of multiple wildfires in Arizona. While two wildfires are currently contained and pose no threat to structures, one fire has residents of Crown King evacuating. The area, which is 85 miles north of Phoenix, could become even more hazardous if winds shift to push the flames back into the community. Officials are concerned about road access; if the fire grows it is possible that firefighters and residents could become trapped.
While authorities work to protect human lives as the fire spreads, others are concerned about damage to their homes and businesses. Although concrete swimming pools and stone exteriors can act as barriers to flames, the intense heat and smoke of fires can negatively affect the appearance of a building. Heat can cause cracking and discoloration of stone faades, in addition to the carbon staining that results from smoke and soot damage.
Mascon Restoration is a company that offers expert repair and cleaning of challenging surfaces such as stone, brick, marble and granite. Although Mascon Restoration is based in New York, miles away from the current southwest wildfires, the region is not unfamiliar with forest fires. According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the state contains 18.9 million acres of forested land that can support severe and widespread fires. In 2002, New York forest rangers responded to 324 such wildfires.
The department stresses the serious nature of "wildland-urban interface fires," an occurrence that poses threat to local homes and businesses in the New York area. In the event of any type of fire, Mascon Restoration urges citizens to first protect themselves and other residents. As noted by the MSNBC report, many home owners find that property abandonment is a struggle. While fires can prove fatal to citizens, it does not mean that a structure cannot be repaired. Mascon Restoration is a company that understands the importance of building preservation, and offers an array of services that can help property owners rebuild impaired structures.
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03-06-2012 16:42 For Home Restoration in the Reno NV area, call (775) 345-1132 for Rainbow International Water Fire Smoke Restoration, the company that will restore your home back to its original condition, no matter what happens! Rainbow International has been servicing the Reno Nevada with quality Water, Fire and Smoke restoration services. When your home or business is damaged by fire, water or mold damage contact Rainbow Restoration we are the restoration and carpet cleaning experts. When you need immediate cleanup and restoration services, we are the leaders in Fire, Flood and Mold restoration and mitigation in the Reno, Nevada area. We service the Reno area and the surrounding Nevada areas. We offer residential and commercial restoration services as well as carpet cleaning and residential and commercial cleaning. When incurring a loss to property caused by damage from disasters, weather, accidents or other casualties do not hesitate contact the qualified professionals at Rainbow Restoration. Our experienced restoration company offers service 24 Hours Day 365 Days a Year with an emergency response service unparallelled by any other provider. We are available to be contacted by Phone, Email, Or via Our Website with a response time of less than 1 hour we will handle your emergency restoration and recovery needs as if they were our own. In addition to restoration services Rainbow Restoration offers a variety of services performed by insured bonded certified technicians . We are IICRC ...
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01-06-2012 22:27 I was looking around on a few old backup hard drives and found this old video of a restoration project we did in 2009. This is the only video of this job I can find. If I find more I will post it. Cross is the name of the customer. This home is over 100 years old and is in a historic neighborhood where strict restoration standards are required. The perfect project for artisans 🙂 Music; SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw is licensed under a Attribution 3.0 United States License.
02-06-2012 04:16 Finally!!! I am more than happy to announce that this will be my last video (EVER) in NY... The last 5 years as a New York-an have been frustratingly beautiful, full of torture and pain, oops I mean love and grace. One things for sure, I know I'll never be the same...yay!!! See ya wouldn't wanna be ya.
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He Lives: Testimony about Restoration
As the McHenry Mansion undergoes restoration after December's fire, it seems appropriate to answer a reader's question about Modesto's most celebrated home.
It is a logical query: "How did the city get the McHenry Mansion? Did they buy it, and, if so, how much did it cost?"
A brief historical review is needed.
Two years after Oramil McHenry's death in 1906, his widow, Myrtie, remarried. The groom was lawyer William Langdon, whom the newspapers described as "the fighting district attorney of San Francisco County."
After Langdon's term of office expired, he and Myrtie McHenry moved back to Modesto and into the downtown mansion. Eventually, he became a local Superior Court judge, and the couple had two children. They also were raising young Merl McHenry, whose father was Oramil.
The McHenry period ended in 1919 when the family moved to the Bay Area. Langdon had just received an appointment by the governor to be the first presiding justice of the 1st District Court of Appeals, in San Francisco.
Although the McHenrys left town, they retained ownership of the mansion and controlled its use.
The building soon became a Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium, and there still are people living in this area whose relatives were born in the McHenry Mansion and were treated for illnesses there.
That period ended in 1923 when it was reported that Langdon had converted the building into what the newspapers called a "first-class apartment house."
Eventually, it had 14 apartments, each with a kitchenette and bath.
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BARE: Modesto's McHenry Mansion has passed through many hands