Original Historic District Document Info:  Built in 1911* for early City Booster, Charles J. Murphy, owner of Murphy and Weill, a general dry goods store. This is a simple, single story, California bungalow with brown shingle exterior. There has been an addition of a small house attached to the side and back part of the original house This attached but separate house is built of narrow cement blocks painted brown and is harmonious with the original style of the house. Leading to the front is a curved sideway which leads off with two iron hitching posts. Small alterations to the original house include louvered shutters, the relocation of the entrance to the house and the porch has been enclosed.

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*The Ventura County Assessor lists this house as being built in 1908.

F Street Tract #63 of 84

STATS: 6 bedrooms, 4 ½ baths, 4281 s.f. on 0.67 acres
Parcel number: 2020072010
Last sold: 7/30/1997 for $280,000

Prior Owners: Alvin H and Mary Edith (Driffill) Wineman (1906); Charles Murphy (1908-1940); Katherine Seckinger (1915); Jack Miller (1947);
T. Frank McGrath (1953)
Current Owners or residents:
Currently being used as a halfway house (see below).

NOTE: The original historic district document states that this was built in 1911, two articles disprove this. One from 1906 says this was the first house to be built on F Street for Alvin Wineman, and a second article from 1908 shows Alvan (sic) Wineman living there.  In August of 1908, Alvin Wineman deeded the house to Charles Murphy, so this is really the Alvin Wineman house (see below). 

**This is one of two Ventura County Landmarks in the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District out of 140 houses. The other is the Henry Levy House at 155 S. G,  just one block away.