{"id":25970,"date":"2019-05-11T14:43:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25970"},"modified":"2019-05-11T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:43:59","slug":"downtown-carmel-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/downtown-carmel-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Buildings of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/crmlbook.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alissandra Dramov, Arcadia Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book Review by Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carmel-by-the-Sea&#8217;s historic architecture gives the downtown an appearance similar to an Old World village,&#8221; concludes Historian\/Journalist Alissandra Dramov, author of a new book, &#8220;Historic Buildings of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Architectural Digest described Carmel as &#8220;stunning,&#8221; naming it the prettiest town in California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although they may have been altered, many of the Romantic Tudor and Spanish Revival buildings that established the look of downtown in the 1920s and 30s, remain a major presence to this day,&#8221; said Dramov.<\/p>\n<p>The author proves her statement with an in-depth look at who created this Fairy Tale-type spot by researching many structures, architects, builders, politicians, celebrities and others who made it&#8211;and continue to make it&#8211;a dream-like reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/alissandra-dramov.html\">Read the book review&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alissandra Dramov, Arcadia Publishing Book Review by Craig MacDonald &#8220;Carmel-by-the-Sea&#8217;s historic architecture gives the downtown an appearance similar to an Old World village,&#8221; concludes Historian\/Journalist Alissandra Dramov, author of a new book, &#8220;Historic Buildings of Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea.&#8221; In 2018, Architectural Digest described Carmel as &#8220;stunning,&#8221; naming it the prettiest town in California. &#8220;Although they may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25971,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25970\/revisions\/25971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}