National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County

National Register #14000304: Arthur and Kathleen Connell House in Pebble Beach As Neutra intended, the house is largely hidden from view
on Signal Hill Road

National Register #14000304: Arthur and Kathleen Connell House in Pebble Beach
Connell House Viewed from the Pacific Shoreline

Pacific Shoreline Near the Connell House Pacific Shoreline Near the Connell House

22 May 2018
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National Register #14000304
Arthur and Kathleen Connell House
1170 Signal Hill Road
Pebble Beach

The house was designed for the Connell family by architect Richard J. Neutra, who conceived of it as a long, low arrangement of orthogonal volumes and planes with dramatic views of land and sea.

With its complex but controlled massing, the Connell House embodies Neutra’s grand dual concern to design the house to meet the family’s needs and also to exploit the meeting of land and water below. In this regard he succeeded, with every room except the den commanding a view of land and sea from Cypress Point northward.

The property is one of thirteen of Neutra’s twenty extant northern California projects retaining integrity.

Source: Adapted from the NRHP nomination submitted in 2014.

In 2004, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur purchased the house with the intent of demolishing it and replacing it with a larger house more to her taste.

Deferred maintenance and suspicious vandalism have raised concerns about demolition through neglect.

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