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[1] [3] Only four of the houses in this historic district had survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. [3] The oldest surviving house in the district is 982 Green Street, built in 1878. [4] Most of the early residents had middle class careers, with the exception of three homes on Green Street at the top of the hill. [4]
Vallejo Street Crest in Russian Hill, 1906 after the earthquake. The area is roughly bound by 1020-1032 Broadway, 1-49 Florence Street, 1728-1742 Jones Street, 1-7 Russian Hill Place, 1629-1715 Taylor Street, and 1000-1085 Vallejo Street, in San Francisco, California, U.S. [3] The listing included 27 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 5 contributing structures. [4]
Built in 1886 for William and Bertha Haas, it survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fire. The Victorian era house is a San Francisco Designated Landmark and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was converted into a museum with period furniture and artifacts, which as of 2016 received over 6,500 ...
It survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. [11] At some point the exterior of the house was modified with stucco. The residence remained in the Atkinson family until 1916, [4] and it changed owners many times over the years. In 1931, the house had a fire in the upper floor and it was remodeled by designer Bruce Porter. [4]
After a large earthquake in 1868, local architects formed the Architectural Association of San Francisco and held a conference to discuss how to build to resist earthquakes. [2] Turnbull became the association's secretary. In 1869 Turnbull designed a large building of four storeys plus a basement and an attic for H H Bancroft & Co, a printing ...
[1] [2] The house was designed and built by architect Peter J. Weber in the 1930s as a family residence and an expression of his creative work. The house is notable for its eclectic Depression-era design inspired by Medieval Spanish brick and half-timbering structures (with additional elements of Moorish and broadly Mediterranean influences ...
It was the first brownstone building west of the Mississippi River, and the only mansion on Nob Hill to structurally survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. [3] [4]
Clark was born April 16, 1893, in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in San Francisco, California, [2] though his birth certificate was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake. He was the son of Hanna Grace Birge and Arthur Bridgman Clark , a professor of art and architecture at Stanford and the first mayor of Mayfield, California ...