L. D. Esty was an early Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...

 architect. He worked with the Berkeley Craftsmen practitioners and has many important projects in Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

, among them the Santa Cruz Mission restoration.

Pogonip

His Pogonip Clubhouse is on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

.http://books.google.com/books?id=RP04qDY7Q54C&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=pogonip+clubhouse&source=web&ots=1ts8Z2LEid&sig=k3WFRELIWHY96XSsGmvAkDUh1cg

Houghton House

His father-in-law A D Houghton http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~houghtonfamily/p483.htm was architect and engineer for John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller was an American oil industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of...

. Houghton's house sat on over 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of land at the tip of Soquel Pt. Now known as Pleasure point, santa cruz, california

Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, California

Two more spots surfed in the early '70's are "Little Wind & Sea" and "26th avenue". Both are just north of "Sewers" and "First Peak" at 26th Avenue....

 It was noted as a beautiful home when it burned in 1915.

Pleasure Point roadhouse

The Roadhouse and the Houghton house have many visual similarities.



Historians believe that the Pleasure Point roadhouse

Pleasure Point roadhouse

The Pleasure Point Roadhouse is a historic building on the Monterey Bay,located at 2-3905 East Cliff Dr., 95062 in Santa Cruz County, California. It was torn down on September 27, 2008, -Henchy:...

 is an Esty. (1.2)
This century old home, with the visual clues and the proximity of this site to Esty/Houghton home,leads historians to this connection. (see Ross)

The Pogonip Clubhouse and the Pleasure Point roadhouse

Pleasure Point roadhouse

The Pleasure Point Roadhouse is a historic building on the Monterey Bay,located at 2-3905 East Cliff Dr., 95062 in Santa Cruz County, California. It was torn down on September 27, 2008, -Henchy:...

 also have many similarities. Both are Brown Shingle construction in Natural settings. Very striking is the visual connection between the back of the Clubhouse and the side of the Roadhouse.

Arts and crafts influence

The Roadhouse pre-dates the American Craftsman

American Craftsman

The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art...

 style, yet contains many of the elements that are found in it.

From the flared "Oriental" eves, to the "clinker" brick fireplace. The use of natural redwood shingles and the windows to take in the light and warmth. The interior wainscoting and the hardwood floors which were covered with oriental rugs. The placement of the house and its longer western wall, take advantage of the natural oceans setting. The placement is above a natural cove that was accessed by stairs to the beach below.

The Roadhouse maybe the trend setter that led to the Craftsman shingle style Berkeley style made well known by Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California...

, Bernard Maybeck

Bernard Maybeck

Bernard Ralph Maybeck was a architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century. He was a professor at University of California, Berkeley...

 and Greene and Greene

Greene and Greene

Greene and Greene was an architectural firm established by brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene , influential early 20th Century American architects...

. It reflects many of the concepts found in The Simple Home, Charles Keeler, 1906 http://www.oregoncoast.net/simplehome.html a great influence on the American Craftsman

American Craftsman

The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art...

 School.

Esty and the arts and crafts movement

L. D. Esty went on, in 1931, to work with C. J. Ryland. A former employee of Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan was an American architect. The architect of over 700 buildings in California, she is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California...

. Esty went on to rebuild the Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

 Mission

Spanish missions in California

The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans. The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to...

 and to build the City Halls in Santa Cruz and Monterey, California

Monterey, California

The City of Monterey in Monterey County is located on Monterey Bay along the Pacific coast in Central California. Monterey lies at an elevation of 26 feet above sea level. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 27,810. Monterey is of historical importance because it was the capital of...

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Sources

1 Ross Gibson HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLEASURE POINT ROADHOUSE, 2007 2007 DPR for 2-3905 East Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz, Ca 95062

Norm Poltevan 2007 research for History Journal

Carol Swift 2007 DPR for 2-3905 East Cliff Dr., Santa Cruz, Ca 95062