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Posted: Tuesday, Feb 16th, 2010 BY: JON CHOWN The Redman House on Lee Road sits in the sun Thursday. Its future is in question.(Photo by Tarmo Hannula)In a room above Dean Coley’s massive mill shop on Lee Road, the Redman-Hirahara Foundation still continues to meet. With notes on business plans and fundraising efforts filling a white board, and historical photos and conceptual drawings decorating

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By DONNA JONESPosted: 10/01/2009 01:30:44 AM PDTWATSONVILLE -- A more than decade-old dream of restoring a historic Pajaro Valley home and turning the property into an agricultural showcase is fading now that project backers have lost control of the Redman-Hirahara House through foreclosure.Though the Redman-Hirahara Foundation vows to fight on to preserve the ramshackle Queen Anne mansion that

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BY: JON CHOWNThe historic Redman-Hirahara property on Lee Road in Watsonville is in foreclosure. (Photos by Tarmo Hannula)Time appears to be running short for the Redman-Hirahara Foundation as a stay of foreclosure has been lifted on the Redman-Hirahara House and surrounding property. The future of the historic structure is hard to guess, though, as legal strings tie the owner, GreenFarm LP, from

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Foundation files for bankruptcyPosted: Thursday, Mar 12th, 2009BY: JON CHOWNDean Coley talks about the Redman-Hirahara Foundation filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday in front of the Redman House on Lee Road at West Beach Street.Rich Kelley and GreenFarm LP have filed for foreclosure on the Redman House, and the Redman-Hirahara Foundation — which bought the historic home on Lee Road — filed

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BY: JON CHOWN Santa Cruz artist Michael Leeds crafted his vehicle (at left) from a 1941 Seagrave hook and ladder fire truck. At right is Watsonville car collector and author Jack Passey’s 1933 Lincoln. The two vehicles were part of a small collection of classic cars on display at the Apple Annual Sunday at the Redman-Hirahara farmstead on Lee Road. Many notable people were strolling the lawn

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BY: TODD GUILD A variety of apples thrive at the Redman House on Lee Road at West Beach Street where an Apple Annual fundraiser will take place Sunday. As the season slides slowly into autumn, the green trees are yielding to yellows and reds, while fallen leaves crunch underfoot. The sun, which has a little more trouble breaking free of the misty mornings, gives way more easily every day to

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Posted: Wednesday, Jul 9th, 2008BY: TODD GUILDRichard Hernandez, archive volunteer at the Pajaro Valley Historical Association, views a collection of programs and promotional material Tuesday from the California Apple Show circa 1910. It’s been almost a century since Watsonville held its Apple Annual, a harvest celebration from a time when the fruit dominated Pajaro Valley’s agricultural scene,

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By JON CHOWN FOR THE REGISTER-PAJARONIANMore than 100 people visited the historic Rancho Santa Maria in Watsonville on Sunday to hear about the progress towards the restoration of the Redman-Hirahara House, which sits at the corner of Lee Road and East Beach Street.Rancho Santa Maria, a 10,000-square-foot home built in the 1930s and nestled in the foothills above the Pajaro Valley just off Hecker

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BY: REGISTER-PAJARONIAN STAFF Workers from Fresno House Movers prepare to hoist the 1897 Redman House skyward Monday as part of a major restoration project. Preparations are under way and the site work has begun to lift the Redman-Hirahara House onto cribbing, stabilizing the historic 1897 home until a new foundation is constructed. The lifting of the house will begin today at 10:30 a.m. and will

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By DONNA JONES Sentinel staff writerWatsonvilleFor years a banner pleading for help hung from the ramshackle mansion in a field west of Highway 1 near the Santa Cruz-Monterey county line.But to the millions of observers who pass by annually, the decade-old effort to restore the historic Redman-Hirahara home appeared to languish.Not anymore.Wednesday, crews completed the first step toward bringing

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Preparations are under way and the site work has begun to lift the Redman-Hirahara House onto cribbing, stabilizing the historic home until a new foundation is constructed. The lifting of the house will begin Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. and will go on for several hours. Ron Campbell of Fresno Housemovers is currently on site placing steel I-beams and smaller cross beams underneath the house

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Anna Caballero (right), assemblywoman for California’s 28th District, asks Redman Foundation President Geoff Scurfield about the history of the Redman-Hirahara farm during a visit to the Lee Road Victorian on Thursday. Caballero was in Watsonville on Thursday visiting constituents.State Assemblywoman Anna Caballero was in Watsonville Thursday visiting constituents, talking about what she’s been

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By KRISTI MAYFIELDSentinel correspondentWhen one thinks of antiquated mansions, visions of Georgian estates complete with sprawling porches and luxurious lawns come to mind, not the ramshackle house with drooping porches and crumbling paint on Lee Road.Pictured: Dean Coley, co-chair of the Redman House Foundation board of directors, stands next to the Victorian, which was built in 1897. The house

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By Dean ColeyThe Register-Pajaronian Speak Out column recently featured a question regarding the status of the Redman House restoration. On behalf of the Redman Foundation Board of Directors, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, I would like to describe the current physical condition and appearance of the house and offer some additional information regarding the Redman House rehabilitation and the

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Featured as a Cover Story in GoodTimesWeekly, Home & Garden Issueby Chris J. MagyarRenovation is a disrupting, painful process that’s only worth going through because the results are so fulfilling. Imagine, then, going through the biggest and most complicated renovation project in the county—one that will have taken decades before it’s entirely through—and, here’s the kicker, it’s not even your

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BY J.D. HILLARDIf you’re driving past the Redman House one day soon and it seems to be in a different spot, don’t be surprised.The Redman House Foundation expected to receive a permit this week to lift the ailing 109-year-old William Weeks-designed Victorian-style home off its foundation and place it on cribbing about 75 feet away, said board member Bob Corbett. The measure is intended to allow

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BY JON CHOWNThe Redman House hasn’t had so many visitors in decades.About 150 people attended a fund-raiser at the historic home on Wednesday and got a taste of some catered food, locally produced wine and what the future might hold for the house and the community.The crowd came from all over the coast, some from Monterey County and even as far north as San Jose. Nancy Dicicco came from Soquel

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BY JON CHOWNWith four wheels, it sort of looked like a tractor, but instead of a tiller, a hydraulic hammer slammed down on a 2-inch pipe with 140 pounds of force, pushing it deep into the ground. Shhhfft-clang! Shhhfft-clang!After pulling the tube back out of the surface, a group of men, grubby from drilling holes into the soft earth, looked at a long shaft of Pajaro Valley soil, mostly mud-like

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By TOM RAGAN, SENTINEL STAFF WRITERIt's not just about saving a house.It's about helping the Pajaro Valley save a part of its heritage while simultaneously luring in more tourists.The Redman House Foundation kicked off an ambitious campaign Friday to raise $4.2 million, hoping to get a little help from the surrounding communities in Santa Cruz County. Karell Reader, founding board member and

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BY JON CHOWNThe project to restore the Redman-Hirahara House is like a puzzle, and members of the Redman Foundation gathered another piece to it Thursday when they picked up a historic windmill, donated by Paul and Billie Schriver of Las Lomas.The windmill, an old Aermotor, made in Chicago, is in pieces and looks sort of like a puzzle itself.It was behind a shed, mixed up with old railroad

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BY ROGER SIDEMANAbout 15 volunteers showed up Saturday to the Redman House grounds, pruning apple tree saplings and painting their roots white to ward off pests. The work was part of an ongoing effort to restore the dilapidated 118-year-old Victorian mansion, a familiar sight to passersby on Highway 1.“We’re planting all the apple varieties that were present at the beginning of the house,” said

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Volunteers converged on the property at the Redman House on Saturday, pruning the more than 300 apple saplings planted around the 119-year-old house. The Redman House Foundation plans to lift the house off its foundation this summer, giving it a new face as the beginning of painstaking work to restore the house, located on Lee Road off Highway 1 near the Riverside Avenue exit.The Redman House, a

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The people trying to bring the old Redman House back to life are looking for volunteers to tend to more than 300 apple trees now growing on the periphery of the century-old edifice.On Saturday, Stephen Pedersen, who farms 10 acres surrounding the dilapidated house, is hoping that at least two dozen volunteers interested in the cause will help him prune and paint the bases of an acre's worth of

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BY ROGER SIDEMANSteven Pedersen will offer observations of his on-farm research at the Redman House Farm. Dick Peixoto is looking to network with buyers representing heavies Wal-Mart and Costco. Tom and Constance Broz of Live Earth Farm will share their successes as part of the emerging "agritourism" economy. These Pajaro Valley farmers will be a part of one the country’s largest gatherings of

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BY ROGER SIDEMAN Local preservationists are excited about new work that will preserve a piece of the area’s rich heritage. Like any building worth saving, the Redman House serves as physical record of its time, place and use.The house and 13-acre estate stand as a reminder of the splendor of Watsonville’s agricultural and architectural past, brought to the town by William H. Weeks, restoration

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