• Hazel P. Hincks garage and service rooms
• Forest Hills Association club building
• M. P. Freeman Memorial Seat
• Sidney H. Greeley house additions
• James J. Fagan house
• Cedric Wright house
• Resort buildings, E. G. Galt
• Robert A. Peers house
• J. Wilbur Calkins house
• Estelle S. Clark house
• Abbreviations

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Location and condition unknown (Woodbridge and Barnes 1992: 233).

Built by volunteers from the area, its lofty meeting room has a great exposed beam ceiling (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 113).

The 1919 Forest Hill Clubhouse with its excellent treatment of wall planes related back to the 1899 Town and Gown Clubhouse; the scalloped fascia was similar to one on the Forest Hill School at Carmel. Redwood boards, 1 by 4 inches, were set within panels of 1 by 8-inch redwood to give a half-timbered effect (McCoy 1975: 48).

The first new construction with the full resumption of his practice in 1919 was a clubhouse built for the Forest Hills Association. The commission came through a former client and Bohemian Club friend, E. C. Young(Cardwell 1977: 181).

The same [that Maybeck didn't seem to have made all of the final decisions] is true of the Forest Hill Clubhouse. In fact, the drawings name E. C. Young as associate architect, but the office records do not indicate the nature of the collaboration. Exterior details of half-timber falsework, brick veneer panels, and jigsawn barge boards lend an air of eclectic English architecture to the clubhouse. It consists of an assemby hall, club room, balcony lounge area, kitchen, and independent living quarters for a resident housekeeper. A flexible arrangement of spaces form the assembly hall. The central portion is covered by a high trussed roof and the north end diminishes to a gabled alcove, rafter framed. At the south end, the balcony and the area below it may be used as part of the room. Neither a dominant structural order, consisten patterning, nor strongly composed vistas give the clubhouse organization. Only the non-axial arrangement of the fireplace and openings recalls the spatial quality of Maybeck's better work (Cardwell 1977: 182).

E. C. Young, associate architect (Woodbridge and Barnes 1992: 233).

The Forest Hill Club House at 381 Magellan Avenue was designed by Maybeck and built on weekends by members of the Forest Hill Association, residents of the area. The facade of the structure, completed in 1919, is more restrained than Maybeck's other works, but the interior is Maybeck at his best. The high ceiling with its massive beam work is one of the architect's most inspiring (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 131).

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But projects of special interest such as one for an old friend from the Bohemian Club captured Maybeck's full attention, and the results were as beguiling as ever. The James J. Fagan house (1920), a country retreat in the wooded knolls of southern San Mateo County, was planned as two units connected by a trellised entrance and passge. One unit contained a handsome living room with private sleeping quarters for the owners; the other provided four separate suites for guests. Each guest bedroom was entered directly from the outside and opened onto private gardens. In a plan reminiscent of the description of the boynton camp, outdoor cooking, eating, and sleeping were featured in garden settings which took full advantage of the salubrious climate of Portola Valley. The construction was stucco and frame, with flat roofs over all but the living room. Trelliswork supported on rotund plaster columns of modified Tuscan design surrounded the structure. In recent years all of the trellises have been removed and the harmonious color scheme of tan, blue, and pink stucco has been obliterated by white paint, insensitively altering Maybeck's work (Cardwell 1977: 183).

The plan successfully relates the two separate units to each other and the surrounding gardens. Each guest room features its own outside entry.

The doorways on the left contained beds for outdoor sleeping (Cardwell 1977: 184).

It was this kind of California-Mediterranean house that Maybeck designed in 1920 for a fellow Bohemian Club member, James J. Fagan, who was vice president of the Crocker Bank. The house was in the rural-suburban community of Woodside, the location of the 1907 Josselyn house (plate 95), and the office files call it "a pavilion for a summer camp at Woodside Oaks." The description suggests something rustic and provisional, but this was more a villa than a camp. The main pavilion was a high gable-roofed living room; a spacious outdoor terrace (plates 168, 169) covered by an arbor the width of the living room joined it to a flat-roofed pavilion with two guest suites that had their own terraces. For sleeping under the moon and stars, two fold-out beds were built into one side of the main terrace. It functioned as an outdoor room that spread out into the landscape in two hemispherical sections, which softened the geometry of the main pavilion. The ensemble of buildings and terraces conveyed the impression that a single building had been taken apart and recomposed in a counterpoint of solids and voids to incorporate the landscaping, which was planned by John McLaren. Vintage photographs, taken for publication, show rather formally attired people enjoying this hedonistic setting. Tunics and chitons would have been more appropriate. Sadly, the great trellises over the terraces are gone, and the buildings have been remodeled past recognition (Woodbridge and Barnes 1992: 168-70, 233).

A small, simple but special cottage in a very private place. The studio room called "the barn" was the scene of many gatherings of Berkeley's cultural elite of the day (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 276; Cardwell 1977: 244).

While the large and elaborate house for Fagan was shaped for the climate and terrain, one small project executed in 1921 better displays Maybeck's sensitivity to the natural environment and his ability to make sympathetic forms out of industrial products. The Maybecks habitually made outings to the lake and mountain areas in northern California. At Glen Alpine Springs, one resort they frequented, Maybeck traded his design services for the costs of lodging his family. His additions to the dining room had only been in use for a few months when, in 1920, the entire complex was severly damaged by fire. E. G. Galt, the owner, thereupon engaged Maybeck to make a general plan for the summer resort and to design a replacement for the destroyed dining room. Maybeck decided that the buildings should be fire resistant, and his initial designs set the theme for the new development.

Glen Alpine Springs is located in a remote Sierra Nevada valley near Lake Tahoe. Mountains tower above the timberline and their slopes are strewn with storm-broken trees, glacial packed snows, and cascades of granite boulders. Using stone, glass, and corrugated iron, Maybeck produced buildings uncomplicated by accepted notions of rusticity and uniquely appropriate to the rugged contrasts of the high Sierra country. His new dining room and kitchen are linked pavilions, each with a distinctive shape formed by trussed rafters supported on massive dry-laid stone piers. Walls are made of industrial steel sash set with panes of glass or sheet metal. Roofs are fashioned from standard sheets of corrugated iron with their ridges closed by curved culvert sections.

Maybeck combined natural materials and industrial products to produce a fire-proof resort complex excellently suited to the rugged high Sierras (Cardwell 1977: 185).

The dining room, seating sixty persons, is wide and high in the middle with lower sections at each end. The eight-sided kitchen is teepee-like in form and its rafters are strengthened by a compressive ring of timbers fastened to their interior surfaces. A lodge and cabins with board and batten walls covered by corrugated metal roofs with curved eaves were later added to the complex. Maybeck also designed a gate house, a new store, and a dance pavilion, but they were never constructed as the resort faltered when more accessible areas of the Lake Tahoe region were opened to year-round development. (Note 20: B. R. Maybeck DWGS, "E. G. Galt," C.D.D. Docs.) (Cardwell 1977: 186).

Equally picturesque, but for a different climate and terrain, is the dining hall and kitchen that Maybeck designed in 1921 for the lodge at Glen Alpine Springs (plate 170), located near Fallen Leaf Lake not far from Lake Tahoe. Glen Alpine had been a resort since early in the century, and Bay Area mountain lovers, the Maybecks among them, summered there despite the arduous journey by train, lake steamer, and portage. Maybeck designed cabins for the lodge as they were needed; in exchange, he was able to take Annie and their two children, Wallen and Kerna, there free of charge.

After the lodge's dining facility burned in 1920, Maybeck designed a new one, which looks like a work of nature topped off by the hand of man. Battered stone piers laid up without mortar and spaced wide apart from windows of industrial steel sash. The floors are concrete, and the heavy timbers of the roofs are covered with corrugated iron to protect them from future fires. The oval kitchen at one end of the building is connected to the dining room by a short passageway. This hyphenated composition stretches across a flat piece of rocky soil. The sequence of forms suggests an alpine church with its nave and apse pulled apart--not to let in the landscape, as in the Fagan house, but to mimic the mountainous forms around it. However, Maybeck took care not to have the building perceived as a church by placing the high part of the nave in the middle rather than at the end, as would have been appropriate for a church. Although another designer might have seen the practicality of using corrugated iron, steel sash, concrete, and stone for this modest building, it was Maybeck's poetic vision that, once more, made the combination of materials so powerful.

He [John A. Rice] introduced it [Bubblestone] to Maybeck, who tried it out for an experimental cabin at Glen Alpine. The two men prefabricated the structure and shipped it up to the mountains, where it performed very well through the winter. Excited by the effective insulating properties of Bubblestone and its light weight--it was only one-quarter to one-half the density of concrete--Maybeck was eager to try it out elsewhere. Little did he know that he would use it next on the burned-out site of his own house (Woodbridge and Barnes 1992: 170-71, 191, 234).

His residential designs after the war were mostly for locations outside the Berkeley area. One, a large rambling structure built in 1921 for Dr. Robert Peers in Colfax, California, is an extremely erratic performance executed in plaster, full of awkward details and proportions indicative of the inconsistent design that developed with his expanded practice (Cardwell 1977: 183).

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