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Chronological listing of 10 selected architectural works in the San Francisco Bay Area (1875-1879).
- Flats
- 222 Filbert St. house
- 22 Napier Ln. house
- 16 Hill St. house
- 18 Hill St. house
- 20 Hill St. house
- 30 Hill St. house
- 34 Hill St. house
- Leander Sherman house
- Ben Franklin Statue
- Abbreviations
1875, Pacific Heights, Flats,
1950-80 Green St., San Francisco.
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This early row of apartments was moved here in 1891. The present front was originally the back (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 81).
A chaste and charming precursor of today's high-rise complexes exists at 1950, 1958, and 1960 Green Street. This three-story, three-unit apartment house was built about 1875 for a former Baltimore shoemaker, Isaac Hecht. It is said that the building was moved here about 1891; the balustraded balconies now visible from Green Street were originally the back door entrances while the bay windows, now at the rear, originally faced the street.
The building is Italianate in style; lofty flat-arched windows with "squeezed" pediments on the main floor (strip-corniced on the upper floor) underlie a bracketed cornice line. The overall effect is high and narrow, as the Italianate dictated, yet eminently functional (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 21).
1875-80s, Telegraph Hill, 222 Filbert St. house,
222 Filbert St., San Francisco.
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The house at 222 Filbert Street is one of the best looking in the row, but seems to be of later date--1875 at the earliest, perhaps 1880 or a little after (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 63).
1876, Telegraph Hill, 22 Napier Ln. house,
22 Napier Ln., San Francisco.
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The oldest house (1875) in the lane would appear to be 10 Napier Lane, a very simple Italianate structure similar to 293 Union Street (1860's). Other houses which should be noted along this charming boardwalk are 15 (1884), 16 (1872), 21 (1885), 22 (1876), and 32-34 (1890, and considerably remodeled). (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 63).
1878, West Mission, 16 Hill St. house,
16 Hill St., San Francisco.
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Another fine group; Italianate on the even side and Stick Style on the odd as a visual foil (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 143).
Built in the slender Italianate style, this house has concentrated portico, window, and cornice detailing (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 273).
1878, West Mission, 18 Hill St. house,
18 Hill St., San Francisco.
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Another fine group; Italianate on the even side and Stick Style on the odd as a visual foil (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 143).
1878, West Mission, 20 Hill St. house,
20 Hill St., San Francisco.
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Another fine group; Italianate on the even side and Stick Style on the odd as a visual foil (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 143).
1878, West Mission, 30 Hill St. house,
30 Hill St., San Francisco.
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Another fine group; Italianate on the even side and Stick Style on the odd as a visual foil (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 143).
1878, West Mission, 34 Hill St. house,
34 Hill St., San Francisco.
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Another fine group; Italianate on the even side and Stick Style on the odd as a visual foil (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 143).
Strips of Stick Style appear here. This house is a lovely interpretation of the Italianate. The lacy balustrade with urn finials adds distinction to its portico (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 273).
1879, Pacific Heights, Leander Sherman house,
2160 Green St., San Francisco.
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Built by the founder of the city's leading music store, this house with a Mansard roof has a three-story music room where Paderewski, Schumann-Heink, and Lotta Crabtree (a next-door neighbor), among others, performed (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 81).
Another of Pacific Heights' grand country houses was the mansarded Leander Sherman house, at 2160 Green Street, built in the 1870s by the founder of San Francisco's greatest music store, Sherman, Clay & Co. A huge ballroom occupies the entire west wing of the house, and in this skylighted, three-story room is a platform on which such great musicians as Paderewski and Madame Schumann-Heink performed. Lotta Crabtree, who lived just west of the Sherman House, also entertained Sherman's guests in this music room. The house has recently been lavishly restored as a bed-and-breakfast inn (Alexander and Heig 2002: 292).
Another Victorian mansion, the Sherman House, 2160 Green Street, was built in 1879 for Leander P. Sherman, founder of Sherman Clay and Company.
A huge, three-story music and reception room forms the entire west wing of the house. In this skylighted room is a platform on which such music greats as Pederewski performed; from a balcony high in one corner of the room, singers like Madame Schumann-Heink and, earlier, Lotta Crabtree (who lived next door to the west), entertained.
The beautifully-preserved house might be called Victorian Baroque; it has an abundance of quoins, brackets, dentils, and balustrades. Front windows on the main level are arched and trimmed with pierced work, and the impressive Mansard roof is further distinguished by scalloped shingling. Terraced gardens and a splendid view to the north add to its environment of high quality (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 19, 21).
1879, North Beach, Ben Franklin Statue,
Columbus Ave-Stockton St., Union-Filbert Sts., San Francisco.
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Lillie Coit's monument to the Volunteer Fire Department, sculpted by Haig Patigian and installed in 1933, and the 1879 statue of Ben Franklin are in ... [Washington] Square. In 1958 Lawrence Halprin & Associates and Douglas Baylis designed the present landscape, which is so sympathetic to its surroundings and to the activities of the square that it seems as though it had always existed (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 49).
A cast pot metal life-sized standing figure of the revolutionary statesman, philosopher, inventor and printer. Originally located at Kearny and Market, it was moved to Washington Square in 1904. It is the earliest still existing monument in the City (Civic Art Collection).