[1] The La Playa Hotel, dates to 1905 when artist Chris Jorgensen (1860–1935) built a two-story wood-framed, ell shaped stone mansion on the southwest corner of El Camino Real and 8th Avenue, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

The original part of the building was a stone tower with a quatrefoil window, on the north-east side, designed by Jorgensen and built by master stonemason Ben Turner.

The upper floor had a wood railing between the stone columns that supported a low-pitched hipped roof.

[4][5] The hotel was purchased by Howard E. Allen in 1968 and underwent changes that included a full-time bar and sprinkler system.

It is also significant under criterion 3, in the area of architecture as one of the few artist designed studio buildings remaining in Carmel, and an example of the early work of stonemason Ben Turner.