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Print PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2007.046.0329Scope and Content
Color Photograph
141 West F Street Benicia CA
Parcel Number: 89-115-18 Block 20, Lot 2, W. 50'
This late 1870's two story wood frame Italianate home is rectangular in shape and sits on a partially raised basement. The roof is low hipped and culminates in a plain boxed cornice and frieze. The building is clad with tongue and groove shiplap and has plain end boards. The recessed, off-center front door with transom has a small non-original plain portico reached by wood stairs with an open railing. A two story three-sided bay window with two-over-two double hung wooden sash completes the front facade. There is an additional two story bay on the east side. Both sets of bay windows have some decorative trim. The interior is elaborate with wainscot, plaster decorations, period wall paper, gas lights and marble fireplaces of which there are four.
The house is believed to have been built by Daniel N. Hastings, a prominent local businessman, who was a butcher, cattleman, civic leader and builder who is recored as owning Benicia property in 1851. In 1867, the lot on which this house stands was claimed by L.B. Dell, another early and prominent settler of Benicia on which he claimed to have stables and other buildings. D.N. Hstings is most often recalled for constructing an elaborate four story mansard roofed mansion, at West Second Street and what is now Military West in the early 1880's. The so-called "Hastings Folly" was considered to be the most elaborage and largest private residence ever constructed at Benicia. The residence at 141 West F Street remains largely intact, wheras apparently nothing remains of the mansion except the retaining wall and several trees and planted areas of the mansion's garden.Collection
Benicia Architectural Study - 1989