A Pebble Beach area homeowner who has been trying to tear down a house designed by master architect Richard Neutra for almost two decades suffered another setback this week after preservationists were granted appeals from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors.

Austrian American architect Richard Joseph Neutra (1892-1970) is shown in a 1935 photo with one of the houses he designed. The Connell House in Pebble Beach is one of his many works still standing. (Los Angeles Times via Wikipedia, CC BY 4.0)

Supervisors on Tuesday heard from homeowner Massy Mehdipour and from three people who were appealing the county planning commission’s January approval of a plan to replace the historic “Connell House” off of 17 Mile Drive, which is a 4,124 square-foot single family home on Signal Hill Road, overlooking Fanshell Beach.

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