The Clinton Della Walker House was designed in 1948 by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed around 1951 on Carmel Point, about 4.5 miles (7 km) southwest of Monterey and 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Carmel, California. The oceanfront lot on which it stands was part of a 216-acre (87-ha) parcel that Willis J. Walker and his wife had purchased in Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1918. In the 1940s a 1.2-acre (0.5 ha) portion was deeded to Mrs. Clinton Della Walker, who asked Wright for a house “as durable as the rocks and as transparent as the waves.”

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. Over a 70-year career, he designed more than 1,000 structures before his death in 1959. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.

Carmel Point borders the Carmel Bay State Marine Conservation Area, a marine protected area established in 2007 by the California Fish and Game Commission. It was one of 29 marine protected areas adopted in the first phase of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, a collaborative public process to build a statewide network of marine protected areas along California’s coast. The conservation area bars commercial taking of invertebrates throughout the bay but allows recreational finfishing from shore, kayak, or boat. Read more here and here. Explore more of Clinton Della Walker House and Carmel Point here: