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The exigencies of hillside sites encouraged a remarkable freedom in plan and massing that, when combined with fine traditional detail as in Coxhead's work, produced houses that were truly original without self-consciously making a great point of it (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 43).

Ernest Coxhead used a Prairie School approach on this stucco house in which modular bands of windows and intervening stucco spandrels are projected from the face of the building (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 285).

Little cloister of steep-roofed church and parish buildings around a court, the front wall of which was added later. Full of nice Coxhead tricks like the waist high windows in the church hall to maintain its weensy scale (Gebhard 1985:179-80).

Numerous churches were created by Coxhead, many in the San Francisco Bay area. Most of these were commissioned and built prior to 1895, for after that time, Coxhead concentrated on residential designs. Two accessible examples are the Church of the Holy Innocents at 455 Fair Oaks in San Francisco and the Foothills Congregational Church at 461 Orange Avenue in Los Altos (MOAH Website Team/SO. February 18, 2003. Ernest Coxhead, Architect of the Williams Home).

A Mediterranean-image house based in part on Coxhead's travels in southern France at the end of the First World War. Coxhead has arranged the surfaces of the house into a remarkably original composition (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 281).

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