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D. M. & Carrie Proper Meredith House, 1883
This would be the first house to be Master Listed for
association with an educator:
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especially important, as all the buildings he taught in,
built, or expanded are now demolished.
Previous slides: the
second and first Nipomo
Street Schools and High
School. Here: the Court
School (and who should
turn up in the photo but
T. L. Brecheen).
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In an unsettled time for education, Meredith
stuck to leadership roles for 25 years.
While other educators were running on anti-Chinese
platforms, Meredith was renting to the Chinese.
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Meredith’s
financial roles
in co-founding
the San Luis
Obispo
Building and
Loan
Association …
and keeping the Andrews Bank afloat during the 1899
county bank panic were also historically significant, in
spite (or because) of his staying out of the headlines.
D. M. and Carrie Meredith’s house is also a unique
and important example in San Luis of Heimatstil:
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an influential strain locally,
in the US, and the National
Folk Architecture Revival
of Europe.
What Andrew Jackson Downing called the Swiss Cottage,
what Germans call Krüppelwalmstil: the Meredith House
is not just a fine example but our only example.
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Overlooked because it was not at the top of Nob Hill,
because it was not in a style anyone recognized, or
because of its front alteration—though consistent in style
and made during its period of significance—
the David Milton and Carrie Proper Meredith House
should be overlooked no more.
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