Gable Mansion

The Gable Mansion is a Victorian mansion in Woodland, California, listed as a California Historical Landmark, that was built in 1885 for Amos and Harvey Gable, two Yolo County pioneers and ranchers.

[1] The Gable brothers, Amos W. and Harvey C. Gable, had the home designed and built for them at 659 First Street by Edward Carlton "Carl" Gilbert, the owner of the Woodland firm Gilbert & Sons, for $16,000.

[2] Joseph Baird, a former Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis, has described it as "a locally unique variant of the Stick style of Victorian architecture in vogue in the 1880s".

[3] The first floor plan of the Gable Mansion includes a central "stair hall" that has a curved stairway visible from the front entrance.

[2] An elevation and first-floor plan of the Gable Mansion, published by Gilbert in the October 1887 edition of the California Architect and Building News, a trade journal of the American Institute of Architects' San Francisco chapter, show similarities with another house published several years earlier.