Girard Chimney
The stone chimney on the high tableland south of Lime Kiln Canyon — all that remains of Victor Girard’s redwood-pole mansion, burned in 1933. Visible from Highway 1 to anyone who knows where to look; the trails up to it have long been overgrown. Position approximate, from Mabel Plaskett’s description (‘on the very edge of a high table land overlooking the sea on the south of Lime Kiln Canyon’) and family knowledge of the site.
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Story of an ‘Empire’ Symbolized by Chimney
A lone stone chimney above Lime Kiln Canyon is all that remains of Victor Girard's redwood-pole mansion — an empire that lasted barely a decade.
Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.
- Albert Sans 1908–
- Morrall Ahlstrom
- Victor Girard 1875–