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The Mancini House
This is my favorite residence in Old Mountain
View. It's right around the corner from where I'm
living now... Didn't know anything about it when
this project began, but online research turned up this
blurb from a
neighborhood
association's newsletter (scroll down):
The Mancini house was built in 1950 as the dream
home of Ugo Mancini, an Italian immigrant who is
remembered for his car dealership on El Camino Real.
Mancini designed the house with many unique features
including Italian murals, a shrine to the Virgin
Mary, a 200 year old Italian marble fireplace, and
rooftop pigeon coops. When the house was completed
Mancini allowed residents to tour it for 50¢,
which was a donation that went to the Boy Scouts of
America, and to Italy where he built a shelter for
children who had been abandoned or had lost their
parents. Although quite young compared to other
neighborhood homes, the Mancini House offers a
glimpse of what Mountain View residents thought was
futuristic over half a century ago.
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More information about Ugo Mancini in a
Mountain
View Voice article.
Note the curved block used in the wall -- seems
quite unusual to me. And in the picture below,
you can see the beautiful stone set into the
exterior, like that decoration above the window.
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Update:
Several months after first posting this page, a friend was invited to
a party here, and took me along, so I finally got to see the inside.
At the time, the place was rented to a group of young people.
This photo shows me
in the basement.
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