Tor House is the stone cottage that poet Robinson Jeffers built on Carmel Point in 1919, training as an apprentice stonemason. Granite came from the beach below, hauled up on a wooden railway by horses.

Five years later, Jeffers completed Hawk Tower alone, rolling rocks up inclined planks for the lower storeys and hoisting them by block-and-tackle for the upper ones. The walls are finished forty feet high and six feet thick.

Embedded in the stonework are fragments from around the world: part of the Great Wall of China, Hawaiian volcanic lava, and a portal from Napoleon's ship Inconstant. Guests included Lindbergh, Gershwin and Chaplin. Jeffers also planted around 2,000 trees on the then-barren point, creating the forested coastline Carmel is known for today.

VoiceMap's Carmel Point walking tour traces the full story of the Jeffers and the remarkable circle of artists drawn to this windswept corner of the coast.