Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2007.046.0318Scope and Content
Black and White Photograph
Von Pfister's Store
South side of Von Pfister Alley, 150 feet west of First Street
Parcel 15, lock 143, Assessor's Map Book 89, Page 24
(formerly Por. Lot 11, Block 8, Barlow May 1850
The Von Pfister Adobe is a rectangular, story and one-half structure with a moderately sloped gable roof. The structure is in extremely poor condition and is in danger of collapse. (1986) The north and east walls are clad with bevel siding of four to four and one-half inch exposure. The west wall finish is horizontal shiplap and the south wall has horizontal boards of rough redwood which is the backside of the interior sheathing. Shingles of the roof are non-existent and a composition board applied over the roof stripping as a temporary roofing has been severly damaged and now covers less than fifty percent of the structure. The original structure of the buiding was ten inch bearing walls of adobe brick nine by eighteen by four inch thick with no apparent addition of masonry or rubble stone. The walls capped with a two by eight redwood plate supported four by six (varing in width and depth) ceiling and rafters. The exterior of the walls were finished with mud plaster, whitewashed. The interior of the walls were horizontal one inch rough redwood boards of widths up to twenty-two inches. No evidence of a histoic wood framed addition at the southeast corner of the building remains.
Since this report/survey a protective structure has been erected over the Adobe and tarps have been added to it.Collection
Benicia Architectural Study - 1989