Price Family Inheritance and Then What Happened

by LaDean Talcott

John Price willed the Tri Gable House to his wife Andrea, and then to his son John. John sold his interest to the Carpenters. Irene Carpenter tried to preserve the Adobes. Fire destroyed this structure in 1989.

Ortega / Price Tri-Gable Adobe

PriceĀ  Anniversary House and the acreage included went to the estate of daughter Mary Ann. Family members lived in it for a while, and later it was rented out to the Guggia and Silveria families and others.

Abandoned in the late 1960s, it stood battered by the weather, thoroughly vandalized, and badly deteriorated, almost destroyed. The land was sold to the PVP development company to build Pacific Estates.

In 1983 the City of Pismo Beach acquired four acres including the house from PVP with the condition the land and historic house be set aside as a park.

Price Anniversary House Circa 1983

Fernie Miranda, a building contractor working in Pismo Heights, looked down from the bluff and saw an old house near Pismo Creek.

While learning the history of this property, he developed a special feeling for the house and spearheaded an effort to restore the building and turn the area into a historic park.

A group was formed in 1991 to generate money for the restoration. This group was officially organized as a non-profit corporation known as the Friends of Price House, Inc. in April 1992.

Thirty years later, this organization continues to restore, preserve, and share the history of the Price Anniversary House.


Happy 30th Anniversary to the Friends of Price House!

Does anyone know?
Who owned/occupied the Price House between the years of 1956 and 1982 after the death of Mary Ann Meherin?
Let us know info@pricepark.org