The De Yoe Building is a historic

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style commercial building in downtown

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. The building was designed and built by the master builder Michael J. Murphy. It was designated as an important commercial building in the city's ''Downtown Historic District Property Survey,'' and was recorded with the Department of Parks and Recreation on July 8, 2002. The building is now occupied by the American Art Gallery.

History

In 1924, Ray C. De Yoe, of the Carmel Realty Company hired master builder Michael J. Murphy to design and build the De Yoe Building on Dolores Street. It was the home of a group of shops, which included the ''

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'' office and the ''Carmelita Hat Shoppe,'' and was opposite of the Carmel Post Office. The two-story building has a steep pitched side-gabled composition roof, with a wood frame building with stuccoed walls and half-timbered diagonal boards on three cross gabled

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s for the upstairs story apartments. The building qualifies for inclusion in the downtown historic district property survey because of it is a significant example of

style applied to a commercial building in Carmel, and because it represents the style of builder M. J. Murphy, with its steep gabled roofs and exposed faux-wood beams, stuccoed walls and prominent chimneys. In February 1925, announcements appeared in the ''Carmel Pine Cone'' about the Carmel Hat Shop and the ''Carmel Pine Cone'' moving to the new De Yoe building on Dolores Street. The ''Carmel Pine Cone'' stayed in the De Yoe building until the end of

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. In 1927, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous established the Denny-Watrous art gallery in the building. In 1931, they added a stage for theatrical performances, sponsored chamber-music recitals, which led to establishing the

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. Architects

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and Rudolf Schindler lectured in the gallery on modern architecture during the 1930s. In the 1950s, the Studio Theatre was established with restaurant facilities added in 1962. A

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office, several galleries, antique shops, and restaurants have been tenants in the last 75 years.

References

External links

Downtown Conservation District Historic Property Survey

Carmel Realty Company
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