26304 Ocean View Ave., Carmel, California. County/parish: Monterey.
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Tor House and Hawk Tower is the historic home in Carmel, California, of poet Robinson Jeffers and his family from 1919 until 1999. Here Jeffers wrote all his major works of poetry.
Construction of Tor House began in 1919 and was completed in 1924, with Jeffers acting as the stonemason's apprentice. With the skills he learned in the construction of Tor House, Jeffers began work on Hawk Tower in 1920, completing it in 1924.
The Tor House Foundation was established in 1978 to oversee Tor House and Hawk Tower as a museum. In 2024 the property was designated a National Historic Landmark.
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