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  VLN: S.F. Architecture 1851-1853
Architecturally and historically, the little old houses on Telegraph Hill are of particular interest in that they carry a strong flavor of the San Francisco of the 1850's, before the Italianate and Stick Style rows came to dominate residential streets.
The combination of business and residential use in the downtown area is one that is only now being revived as one of the answers to the problems of urban living and of fulltime use of scarce and expensive "core city" lands (Olmsted and Watkins 1969: 53).
One of the oldest houses in Pacific Heights is the Captain Leale house, at 2475 Pacific Avenue.
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 VLN: S.F. Architecture 1853-1860
As one of the finest surviving examples of a group that includes Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, it is well worth a visit and has a wonderful view of the bay from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge (Woodbridge and Woodbridge 1992: 163).
When preparations were being made in the 1850s for the construction of the massive brick Fort Point, the entire promontory and whatever remained of the old castillo were blasted away (Alexander and Heig 2002: 12).
The house was bought by the National Society of Colonial Dames in 1951, moved to this lot from across the street, and restored by Warren Perry, the dean of the University of California-Berkeley School of Architecture.
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 Architecture
Domestic Architecture - text of a speech given at the Doors of Perception conference.
Some Notes on Christopher Alexander - summarizes his architectural theories and his influence on computer science and the study of Turkish carpets.
Renzo Piano Workshop Foundation - allowing students of architecture the benefit of educational training through immersion and direct experience.
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 New York Architecture Images- new york architecture walks- East Village
Its significance is not in its height but in its graceful façade, which substantially increased the glass window area in proportion to its solid wall, foreshadowing today’s curtain-of-glass high-rises.
So advanced was the Bayard-Condict Building that, six months before it was finished, the Architectural Record proclaimed it as “the nearest approach yet in New York… to solving the problem of the skyscraper.” The Bayard-Condict Building is both an official city landmark and a designated National Historic Landmark.
First publishers and then textile firms moved into the area vacated by its wealthy residents and replaced the row houses with practical buildings which are greatly admired to this day.
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  ARC :: John Ruskin (1819-1900) :: Page 1 of 1
At seventeen he wrote for Blackwood a defence of Turner [1775-1851], which the painter, to whom it was first submitted, did not take the trouble to forward to the magazine.
Clouds, mountains, landscapes, towers, churches, trees, flowers and herbs were drawn with wonderful precision, minuteness of detail and delicacy of hand, solely to recall some specific aspect of nature or art, of which he wished to retain a record.
In 1853 The Stones of Venice was completed at Herne Hill, and he began a series of Letters and Notes on pictures and architecture.
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 New York Architecture Images- new york architecture walks- West Village
Today, only one club survives, the Salamagundi, located in a handsome Italianate brownstone built in 1853, complete with high stoop, that was once home to the president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, Irad Hawley.
Suggesting a “stew” or “salad” of various ingredients, the Salamagundi Club has since 1871 attracted a long list of renown members, including Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, John La Farge, Augustus St. Gaudens, Louis Comfort Tiffany, as well as Stanford White and John Philip Souza.
While the interior spaces are private and off-limits, the main exhibition gallery at the rear is open to the public on most days.
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 AllRefer.com - Stanford White (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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After studying in Europe, he entered (1879) into partnership with C. McKim and W. Mead, a firm that was to affect the course of American architecture over a long period.
White had a passionate love of beauty; his special talents were for the decorative elements of a building and for its interior design and furnishing.
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 Greenfield Architects--Architecture, Interior Design, Planning, Adaptive Reuse
Greenfield Architects provides architecture, planning, interior design, and adaptive reuse services for businesses, agencies, and organizations throughout the eastern United States.
Listening to your ideas, desires, and dreams, then applying architectural creativity to maximize function and aesthetics is what we specialize in at Greenfield Architects.
That’s what we mean when we say Success by Design.
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 Antique Prints Pre-1900 - Architecture
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 49th Street Campus 1878 Print Photo
LOT 4 LARGE ARCHITECTURAL PRINTS church CATHEDRALS 1868
ANTIQUE ETCHING ARCHITECTURAL PENCIL SIGNED $9 NO RESV
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 OLD NEWS Index - 1995-2005
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