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Chronological listing of 1 selected extant architectural work in the Bay Area by James Francis Dunn (1921).
1921, Nob Hill, Chambord Apartments,
1298 Sacramento St., San Francisco
James Francis Dunn; 1985 rest., Marquis & Assoc.
Often remarked on for its kinship with the work of Antonio Gaudi, this apartment building owes its swelling forms to an unusual floor plan in which oval living rooms are stacked in the corners of the building and expressed in the bowed-out balconies (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 63).
The Chambord Apartments (13) (1921), on the northeast corner of Jones and Sacramento, were originally designed by James Francis Dunn, with references to Antonio Gaudi and Beaux-Arts styles. The ornamentation on this sculpted building was stripped off the balconies in the 1950s and then carefully restored by Marquis & Stoller in 1985. Interestingly, the original plans showed details that did not correspond with the one photograph of the building located by the architects (Wiley 2000: 266).
Note the splendid French Second Empire apartment building by James F. Dunn at 1298 Sacramento St. (restored 1983 by Marquis Assoc.) (Gebhard, Winter and Sandweiss 1985: 75).