A working history
The house and its people.
Built in 1949 for Dorothy Green Chapman and designed by architect Rowan Perkins Maiden, the house is a recognized example of Wrightian Organic architecture in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Its story connects a civic-minded patron, an important regional architect, and the postwar culture of the Central Coast.
Chronology
A timeline still being written
The dates below separate confirmed facts from publication leads that still require the original magazine issues or archive files.
The house remains an active subject of research; its current City inventory status requires verification against later records.
On September 21, Design Study Application DS 20-285 is formally withdrawn.
In December, the City’s Phase Two evaluation finds the house eligible under Carmel’s historic-inventory criteria.
New ownership begins; a permit and Design Study application are prepared for the house with architect Daryl Woods.
City Council grants an appeal to remove the property from Carmel’s Inventory of Historic Resources.
The house is included in Carmel’s Inventory of Historic Resources when the City adopts the inventory as part of its Local Coastal Program.
The carport is enclosed.
Dorothy Green Chapman dies. Virginia Hayes is later documented as owner, but the available records do not establish when she acquired the house.
The Carmel Pine Cone interviews Chapman in her San Antonio Street “prize-winning home.”
The Monterey Peninsula Herald profiles Dorothy Chapman’s work to preserve Carmel.
The Donald G. Thompson House in Big Sur is completed from Maiden’s last known design.
Rowan Perkins Maiden dies after a fall from a roof; House Beautiful reportedly features the house.
The Chapman House is reported to appear in Sunset magazine.
Arts & Architecture publishes Nepenthe as “Outdoor Restaurant by Rowan Maiden, Designer.”
The Dorothy Green Chapman House is completed in Carmel.
Maiden settles on Huckleberry Hill in New Monterey and begins designing for Peninsula artists.
Maiden apprentices with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West.
Carmel artist Julie Stohr paints a portrait of Dorothy Green Chapman.
Rowan Perkins Maiden is born.