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Brandt Cottages-Pinole Valley Road 1906 (city)Description
Brandt Cottages: Along the east side of Pinole Creek along Valley Avenue at the foot of School Hill are the six Brandt cottages. Carolyn Sybil Meineke Brandt owned the land and commissioned a local builder to build these six cottages in 1906. Brandt and her husband, Frederick, owned ranch property extending to today’s Fosters Freeze and Green Lantern, north to Pinion Avenue and the Sportsman’s Club and Santa Fe tracks. After Frederick’s death, Carolyn sold the ranch to the Buckley family, moved to downtown Pinole, and had these two-bedroom dwellings built. They were nicknamed “honeymoon cottages,” and rented for $15 a month. These are among Pinole’s most well-known preserved homes from the turn of the twentieth century.Copyright
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Pinole Historical Society
