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Captain's Inn at Moss Landing
The Captain's Inn at Moss Landing is located, in part, in a historical building in Moss Landing, California on Monterey Bay. The building was originally built as the Pacific Coast Steamship Company building in 1906.

History of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company Building in Moss Landing, CA
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company building was built in 1906 following the San Francisco 1906 earthquake. This property has many well known names associated with it. The Castro family received the property in an original land grant. Later in 1868, the property was owned by Charles Moss, the town’s namesake, and Donald Beadle (both in shipping). The Pacific Coast Steamship Company purchase the property in 1881 and the PCSC owned the property when the current two story building was built. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company was sold in 1917 to the Pacific Steamship Company run by John Scudder. The Capurro Family owned the property in the mid1920s and used it as a family residence. The York family established the Moss Landing Harbor Chapel ere in the 1960s and 1970s and regularly held church services in the building. In more recent years 1980s and 1990s, the building has been home to countless Moss Landing Marine Laboratories students.

This building was originally built as an office building with 6 individual offices and a parlor. In later years it became a residentce where one office became a kitchen, a dining/laundry nook was added, and bathrooms were fit in.

The simple colonial revival style is in vernacular pyramid cottage form used just after the turn of the century mostly in “company towns”. The porch front is simple Tuscan order. The two downstairs front windows are Queen Anne cottage style. The simple fireplaces include bricks salvaged from damaged buildings in the 1906 earthquake made by the Sante Fe masonry.

This building has been fully renovated by and opened as a bed and breakfast in March, 2003. The building is listed as a historical resource by Monterey County and the Calfornia Coastal Commission. The effort to save this building has been awarded a historic preservation award from the Moss Landing Chamber of Commerce in 2003 and received a Centennial Commerative Resolution from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 2007.

The Captain's Inn at Moss Landing was the first business in Monterey County to enter into a Mills Act contract, completed in 2010. The federal Mills Act was passed in 1923 and Monterey County created its Mills Act Ordinance in 2009. The Captain's Inn entered into the Mills contract to provide additional protection for the historic Pacific Coast Steamship Company building.

Rooms in the building are available for overnight stay, and the building is handicapp accessible downstairs. This building is visible to the public from the county road, and is located at 8122 Moss Landing Road in Moss Landing, CA, 95039.