![]() ![]() On the first floor, the staircase, trim, pocket doors and baseboards are Philippine Mahogany, according to Tokeli Baker, president of the Escondido Art Association. The renovation included installing hand-crafted replica doors and period-appropriate hardware. The living room also retains its original cove ceiling. The home was built using 125-year-old redwood and still has its original floors of quarter-sawn oak. Mark and Julie Anne Moore are parting with their home after seven years in search of a house nearby with a separate downstairs living space. More: If You Think This Grand English Manor Is Old-Check out the 1,700-Year-Old Roman Ruins in the Backyard Since qualifying for the Mills Act in 2018, property taxes are $3,366 a year, instead of about $12,500, and are transferable to a new owner, said Walker. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and now benefits from the Mills Act, a California program promoting the restoration and preservation of historic buildings by private owners. “At certain times it looked burgundy and teal, and at other times it looked gold and green,” she said. Letitia Parashis remembered the wallpapers in the living room. ![]() The roomsets are either reproductions of original papers or inspired by patterns from the period, said Lisa Bauer, an owner of Bradbury & Bradbury. ![]() Only the kitchen and downstairs bathroom are without these wall treatments. Julie Anne counted 26 patterns used in the living room. The rooms are decorated in hand-printed Bradbury & Bradbury roomsets-or combinations of wallpaper patterns covering the walls and ceilings. Some $400,000 was spent on the wallpaper alone. It took a crew of architectural experts and craftsmen to reverse years of deterioration to create a Victorian showpiece, said Letitia Parashis, whose husband died in 2020. The Moores purchased the property from art dealer and collector Harry Parashis and his wife, Letitia Parashis, who bought the property in 1998 for $288,000, then spent several years and about $3 million renovating it. MANSION GLOBAL BOUTIQUE: Mansion Global Host Katrina Campins’s Guide to Staging Your Home Right The couple plan to stay in the area and find a home with downstairs living space for Mark’s mother. They bought the home for $1 million in 2016. Julie Anne Moore, a retired nurse, and her husband, Mark Moore, who works in the film industry, are selling the estate. Jeff Walker, broker and founder of Agents of Architecture, is handling the sale. Now, the 3,300-square-foot home, with four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, set on a 0.45-acre corner lot overlooking Escondido’s historic district, is listed for $2.25 million. In this century, the home has become known for its meticulous restoration, as well as for its extravagantly wallpapered interior. The original mahogany staircase has a continuous handrail that ends in a spiral. The entryway has one of the home’s many Bradbury & Bradbury roomsets, harmonious wall and ceiling wallpaper patterns. The Timken Museum of Art in San Diego, about 30 miles away, bears the family name. Timken created an improved carriage spring and then patented an improved tapered roller bearing used in industrial applications to reduce friction. ![]() He also helped develop Escondido’s water system.Īnother inventor, Henry Timken, bought the house in 1909 as a wedding present for his daughter Amelia when she married philanthropist Appleton Bridges. He came up with a design for a bottle stopper for liquid drinks, a wire-fence barbing machine and an adjustable clothes wringer for laundry. Beach was a real-estate broker and insurance salesman who owned one of the first businesses in Escondido and later helped develop properties in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, including Beachwood Canyon, which bears his name. The estate was built in 1896 for Albert H. A historic Queen Anne-style home in Escondido, Calif., has long been associated with innovation-most recently for its interior decoration, and in its earliest days for attracting some of the businessmen, philanthropists and inventors who helped shape Escondido and southern California in the 19th and 20th centuries. ![]()
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