2012 Western Conference, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA
Thursday pre-conference tour, led by John Barns and Frank Perry (U.C.S.C.) and by Jean Voldevort (Wilder Ranch)
Photos by Marnie Jones
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Stop 1 on today's tour of the Cowell Limeworks and Wilder State Park: the Barn Theatre, University of California Santa Cruz. The structure was built in the 1890s and adapted in 1968 for use as a theater. |
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The Cowell Limeworks cooperage, also at U.C.S.C., served as a barrel-making facility.
Full barrels of lime were one stored underneath the structure, which stands next to four giant outdoor kilns. |
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This dilapidated hay barn at the Limeworks is the subject of an upcoming feasibility study
which will help University staff plan for it's eventual rescue. |
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Additional Limeworks structures at U.C.S.C. include an historic blacksmith shop, a horse barn, residences,
a slaughterhouse, and worker's cabins. |
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This Victorian home—one of several at Wilder Ranch—was built in 1897. A sizable addition was made in 1912.
The home was restored in 2005 for display to the public. |
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The horse barn at Wilder Ranch. This elaborate outbuilding was constructed with lottery winnings in the 1890s. |
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Tour participants dine in front of an adobe home, built by Juaquin Castro around 1840. |
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Newspapers from Belfast, Ireland, dated 1870, as exposed on the second floor walls of the Wilder home. |
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Two Montagues French ranges, installed side-by-side. |
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The second story of the Wilder Ranch dairy barn. Some beams were hand-hewn, while others were milled. |
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Tie stalls in the mansard-roofed horse barn. |
For more information on the Limeworks, visit
http://limeworks.ucsc.edu/. For more on Wilder Ranch, visit
http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/549/files/wilderranch_web_31609.pdf.
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