Howe, Ira

Ira Howe (no local burial found) was a carpenter who bought a Washington Street lot in a Thomas Weeks subdivision in 1867. Howe and wife Mary owned the property until 1881, and built two houses that remain today.

• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Two, item (30), page 49, 50 (image).