Thanks
Tetsu.
The link you provided had some pretty interesting information.
(If you don't mind, I'm going to post a portion of it for the people who skip links)
ebay
"Kinney finally found what he was looking for at the top of a mesa,
grown thick with chaparral and with no road leading to it. He pictured
a great white house on the plateau and knew that from the windows
one would be able to see all over the valley and 30 miles distance to
the sea.
Kinney later called the area "the mecca of all my hopes. He purchased
550 acres of land in the spring of 1880, which comprised the mesa on
which to build his house with a sizable sloping field in front of it. The hill
had previously been occupied by a
hermit bee-rancher. Two days after
Kinney acquired the property, men were at work clearing the brush, bridging
ravines, and grading for a road on the east side of Eaton Wash. By tunneling
into the base of the mountainside, they transformed an insignificant water source
into a splendid irrigation system Pipes were laid and a 35 foot-deep reservoir
with a 500,000 gallon capacity was constructed, as well as a storage reservoir
with a four million capacity.
DETAILS OF THE HOUSE:
A commodious two-story home was built with four large rooms upstairs and four
downstairs, surmounted by a tower. A wide hall ran through the center of the house,
and a kitchen ran along the back. Downstairs, a library and dining room were situated
on the east side, while on the west were a parlor and large billiard room. Upstairs were
four large bedrooms, but there were no servant quarters in the house. Only Chinese were
employed as servants and laborers, and a long, low wooden building had had been erected
farther up the hill. Kinney called it the 'Chinese Quarter'. The only servant to live in the main
house was Mr. Kinney's black valet."
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all information from:
www.nkrpoa.com
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