Photos: Point Reyes preservation

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, walks the dirt road that drops into Laird’s Landing in Point Reyes National Seashore, with Tomales Bay in the distance.

Broken windows and graffiti mark Clayton Lewis’ former sculpting and painting studio.

Vines grow over windows of the main house at Laird’s Landing.

A few of the hundreds of cartoons crafted by artist Clayton Lewis on envelopes that accompanied letters he mailed to friends, family and his mother living in Washington.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, displays some of his father’s artwork at his San Francisco home.

Richard Kirschman, a close friend of artist Clayton Lewis, walks past one of several portraits Lewis painted of Kirschman as it hangs in Kirshchman’s Point Reyes Station home.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, displays some of his father’s artwork, which included sculptures, at his San Francisco home.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, displays some of the hundreds of cartoons his father made on envelopes that accompanied letters he mailed to friends and family.

Trees frame a view of Tomales Bay as Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, walks to the original Coast Miwok buildings at Laird’s Landing in Point Reyes National Seashore.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, walks through his father’s former sculpting and painting studio, which now sags with rot, at Point Reyes National Seashore.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, inspects the roof of the guest house at Laird’s Landing in Point Reyes National Seashore.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, climbs over tree limbs to inspect the guest house at Laird’s Landing in Point Reyes National Seashore.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, inspects the Laird’s Landing boathouse, abandoned at the edge of Tomales Bay since the 1990s.

Peter Lewis, youngest son of artist Clayton Lewis, walks the dirt road that drops into Laird’s Landing in Point Reyes National Seashore, with Tomales Bay in the distance.