1937, Pacific Heights, House
2870 Pacific Ave., San Francisco
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
No comment (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 160).
1937, Northern California, Clark house
Aptos
William W. Wurster
In 1937 Wurster completed a beach house for the Clarks in Aptos near Santa Cruz. Here is the centrally organized kitchen cave on the beach level, flanked by wind-protected sitting places--outside living porches protected from the windy Pacific (Woodbridge 1988: 134, 135).
1937, Northern California, Hammill house
San Francisco
William W. Wurster
Two examples of the living porch are the 1937 Hammill house, oriented to a magnificent view of the Bay, and the Green residence of 1938 on the slopes of Mt. Diablo, open to the countryside and the rolling hills beyond (Woodbridge 1988: 134, 135).
1938, Pacific Heights, House
2795 Vallejo St., San Francisco
Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons
A pair of dark-shingled houses of the First Bay Tradition, and what was originally a dark Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons box. The stairway is indicated to the outside world by a diagonal across the hall window (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 162).
1938, Northern California, Green house
Mt. Diablo
William W. Wurster
Two examples of the living porch are the 1937 Hammill house, oriented to a magnificent view of the Bay, and the Green residence of 1938 on the slopes of Mt. Diablo, open to the countryside and the rolling hills beyond (Woodbridge 1988: 134, 136).
1938, East Bay, Van Duesen house
Berkeley
William W. Wurster
From his 1928 Gregory farmhouse, or ranch house, as it is so often called, near Santa Cruz to his 1938 Van Deusen house in Berkeley, he contrasted and played off everything imaginable--space which conveys a Classical order is juxtaposed with space which appears casual, placement of windows and doors seems to deny the hand of the architect, and so on (Woodbridge 1988: 17).
1939, East Bay, Strauss House
8 Stonewall Rd., Berkeley
William Wurster
A fine example of Wurster's frankly unpretentious, small house design. The flat roof with wide eave and expressed beam ends, and the crisply detailed balcony are identifying elements (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 277).
1939, Peninsula, Corbus House
239 Felton Dr., Menlo Park
William Wurster
Ordinary and nice, standard Wurster windows which seem almost totally uncomposed, board walls, deceptive plainness (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 155).
The Corbus house, 1941, was built in the then-rural countryside of the last developed peninsular suburban area near Palo Alto. This simple pavilion house, with what has been described as "Wurster's awkward scale," not only has a sense of spaciousness, though small, but also fulfills the ideal of a country place, though it sits on a standard suburban lot. It is a seemingly artless house, casual and carefree (Woodbridge 1988: 147).
1939, Pacific Heights, House
2633 Green St., San Francisco
William Wurster
One of Wurster's few overt nods toward what was then the new International style (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 163).
A simple box with Moderne details, unusual for Wurster (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 42).
1939, Pacific Heights, House
2560 Divisadero St., San Francisco
William Wurster
A simplified Regency-Revival house with well-proportioned massing. Wurster appears to have favored brick for his traditional houses and wood for the more informal ones (Woodbridge, Woodbridge and Byrne 2005: 159).
One of Wurster's handsomest brick houses, on a commanding site at the top of Pacific Heights (Gebhard, Winter, and Sandweiss 1985: 42).
