1954, East Bay, House No. 3
W. side of Greenwood Terr., Greenwood Common, Berkeley
Joseph Esherick, L Halprin, land. arch.
No comment (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 287)
No comment (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 259).
1954, East Bay, House
2727 Marin Av., Berkeley
Joseph Esherick
Flattened gable roofs with broad, over-hanging eaves give this house a Japanese look, often seen in the Bay Region Post and Beam Style of the 1950s (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 252).
1957, East Bay, Pelican Building
UC Campus, Berkeley
Joseph Esherick
No comment (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 272).
1957, Northern California, Holt House
4000 Wagner Heights Rd., Stockton
Joseph Esherick & Assoc.
(Just below the city limits Pacific Avenue branches into Sacramento and Thornton roads. Take the left branch (Thornton) across Bear Creek and beyond city limits to Wagner Heights Road) (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 424).
1957, North Bay, House
Kentwoodlands
Joseph Esherick; Richard Heims, landscape architect
In a 1957 house by Esherick in the same area of Marin County as his original 1950 "barn," the same form and spatial arrangement are used, but the difference in scale, in addition to the breaking of the volume with an extended service wing that forms one side of the entrance court, creates more the impression of a lavish, shingle–style villa in the line of McKim, Mead and White than of the California barn (Woodbridge 1988: 202, 203).
1959, East Bay, House
125 Hillcrest Rd., Berkeley
Joseph Esherick
A stylish stucco house with a sonotube columned entrance and a plan generally typical of Esherick's work of this period (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 281).
1959, Peninsula, Palo Alto Unitarian Church
505 E. Charleston Rd., Palo Alto
Joseph Esherick & Assoc.
A contemporary version of rural vernacular in old Calfornia, unprepossessing but pleasant (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 174).
1960, North Bay, Cary house
Mill Valley
Joseph Esherick
Almost fifteen years before, Joseph Esherick's Cary house of 1960 had begun to develop these concerns [with the play of light and shade]. It again is a fairly simple box, elaborated by the eyelashes and eyebrows of overhangs which soften the transition from the simple box to the bright light of the outside. There, I think, for the first time in several centuries, the windows came clearly to be seen not just as walls of glass as in earlier houses, nor as holes in solid walls, as in still earlier ones, but rather variously as chances to pick up light along a wall or floor or to look at a view through an opening shaded by trellises, each window responding to the special aspects of what lay beyond or the quality of entering light. The effects inside in three dimensions are far more complexly developed than they would have been in earlier Bay Area buildings, to get the pleasures of light on more surfaces. Not the extent of the space but the way the light falls in it is the key ennobling factor (Woodbridge 1988: 298-301).
1962, North Bay, House
11 Crest Rd., Belvedere
Joseph Esherick
An elegant house in the middle period Bay Region Shingle style (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 216).
1963, Russian Hill, Apartments
20-24 Culebra Terr., San Francisco
Joseph Esherick
Joseph Esherick designed 20-24 Culebra Terrace (26) for himself with additional rental units at 26-30 Culebra (27) (Wiley 2000: 260).
