This building originally carried switching equipment for long distance phone calls, and later television signals, as a node in the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (later AT&T) network that spanned the length and breadth of the entire USA. Government-built in 1972 then abandoned, renovation has recently transformed it into a residence and event space. The essential character of the main equipment building, with its 36” thick concrete walls, is preserved as a single open space (volume +_ 2000 square feet) with fifteen-foot-tall ceilings, a mechanical and structural spine, museum quality track lighting and inventive shading devices. A central sunken courtyard area features a pond and ‘garden of the four elements’ open entirely to the sky by means of an innovative accordion skylight, whose infinity edge frame creates a Turrell-inspired view of sky and tower.

Adjacent to the building in a five level 75 foot tall steel and concrete tower that still holds the four original microwave horn antennae, an integral part of the line-of-sight wireless conduit which facilitated communication through the mountains. Views from the tower and building encompass a 360-degree view of the ocean, basin, valley and layers of mountain ranges.