Langford House Report
Louise Hayler, 1978
The Langford House, still firmly standing on Lot 1, Block 1 of the
Pacific Grove Retreat, is being brought back to life by a young cou--
ple from Chicago, Kent and Joyce Cherry, who seem always to have
wanted a Victorian by the sea. The house was built in 1884 as a
summer residence for the Benjamin Langford family and designed in
the popular Italianate style, one of the six or seven archrtactural
styles in vogae at different times during the Victorian age.
It started out a cube shape with a lookout(non-functional) on the
roof. There was no foundationx as required now in buildings, but
the redwood supports lald directly on the mud sill have not deter-
iorated. There was an outdoor privy, a wood stove for food cooking,
kerosine lamps and candles for light, and running water pipes on the
outside of the walls. There was no way for heating the house as a
whole but a small sheet iron stove is conjectured in one room with
an outside hole connection.
The Langford family owned the house till 1975 when the daughter-in-
law, Alice, died at 101. She and her invalid husband had lived the
year round in Pacific Grove and are credited with structural changes
made. They added cupboards (built in) to several rooms;electricity;
a chimney and connecting fireplaces. The cube shape was changed by
their addition of a nook in the kitchen, the window addition in the
front parlor, and the moving out of the walls in the yellow room for
more space and the use of French doors 5[Ed for easy access to the
terrace area. Walls were also changed upstairs to make room for a
sun lounge with western exposure. These changes can be seen in the
changed wood floors from redwood to oak and in the beams remaining
in the ceilings.
Since the zoning allows it, the flrst purchaser of the Langford house
used it as a rooming house. He sold it*within a year and it deterlor-
ated into a commune situation which brought great misuse to the
sturdy fram
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