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Fairy Tale Cottages And Secret Alleys Tour Of Carmel By The Sea

This is my last installment of the trilogy dedicated to attractions in Monterey Bay, California area. The previously posted stories are: Monterey and Pacific Grove road trip itinerary and Carmel-by-the-Sea and Carmel Valley road trip itinerary.

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Fairy Tale Cottages And Secret Alleys Tour Of Carmel By The Sea

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  1. Fairy Tale Cottages And Secret Alleys Tour Of Carmel By The Sea

  2. This is my last installment of the trilogy dedicated to attractions in Monterey Bay, California area. The previously posted stories are: Monterey and Pacific Grove road trip itinerary and Carmel-by-the-Sea and Carmel Valley road trip itinerary. This final post is detailed to a walking tour of Fairy Tale Houses and Secret Alleys of Carmel-by-the-Sea

  3. Carmel-by-the-Sea has a a unique, whimsical, fairy tale-like architecture. It all started in 1920s when a gentlemen named Hugh Comstock, came to visit Carmel, where he met a rag doll maker, Mayotta Browne. They fell in love and got married and stayed to live in Carmel. Mayotta’s business was very successful, she made many dolls but the problem was where to keep them all as they overflowed their house. Mayotta asked her husband to build a house for her dolls. Hugh was not an architect or a builder but had a talent for tinkering with things.

  4. He built her a small cottage that he called “Gretel”, which was inspired by illustrations from a storybook “Hansel and Gretel”. Then, a year later he built another cottage and called it, not surprisingly, “Hansel”. People of Carmel noticed his beautiful fairy tale creations and flocked to him with requests to build for them too. The rest is history. Comstock built about a dozen houses and later people got inspired by his architectural designs, so you can see more houses in Carmel now in the same style.

  5. Another specific feature of the town has nothing to do with Comstock. There are a number of beautiful secret alleys that are not typically marked on the map and most of them don’t even have a name. If you don’t know where they are you will definitely miss them. I am not sure of their origin but my feeling is that they came to be when creative people of Carmel decided to find ways to use spaces in between buildings with an artistic purpose.

  6. And there are a lot of creative people in town: Carmel-by-the-Sea is an artists colony of sorts. You can see many different galleries in downtown. I guess this storybook charm attracts them like a magnet. One of the most famous galleries in town is that of a famous Californian painter, the late Thomas Kinkade. He was the famous creator of pastoral and idealized scenes that now hang in about 1 out of every 20 american homes. And those bucolic cottages that you see in his paintings were inspired by Carmel architecture! You may or may not be a fan of his style but it is definitely interesting to visit his gallery because his paintings echo very well with Carmel’s fairy tale feel.

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