Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home

421 Pages·2005·13.03 MB·English

by  Freudenheim

Building with Nature
“Hillside Architecture is
Landscape Gardening around
a few rooms for use in case of rain.”
— HILLSIDE CLUB YEARBOOK, 1906– 1907 —

To Tom,
my husband of forty years,
without whom neither this book nor the earlier one would have happened;
those who know him will understand how lucky I am.
To Elisabeth Sussman,
my dear friend and co-author of
Building with Nature: Roots of the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition,
who graciously encouraged me to expand our first joint effort.
To the Memory of
Ambur Hiken (1915–2002),
whose insightful photography illuminates
the pages of this book.
FIRST EDITION
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Text © 2005 Leslie M. Freudenheim Photographs by Ambur Hiken © 2005
Leslie Freudenheim and Elisabeth Sussman, unless otherwise noted.
Frontispiece/Title Page: The Charles and Louise Keeler house, 1770 Highland
Place, Berkeley (1895), designed by their friend Bernard Maybeck; drawing by
Louise Keeler, October 1898.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Freudenheim, Leslie M.,
1941— Building with nature: inspiration for the arts & crafts home / Leslie M.
Freudenheim.— 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-58685-463-1
1. Architecture, Domestic—California—San Francisco Bay Area. 2.
Regionalism in architecture—California—San Francisco Bay Area. 3. Arts and
crafts movement—California—San Francisco Bay Area—History—19th
century. 4. Arts and crafts movement—California—San Francisco Bay Area—
History—20th century. 5. Architecture and society—California—San Francisco
Bay Area—History—19th century. 6. Architecture and Society—California—
San Francisco Bay Area—History—20th century. 7. Worcester, Joseph, 1836–
1913—Influence. I. Title.
NA7235.C22S3537 2005
728’.37’09794—dc22
2004030965
Contents
Preface
A Tribute and an Explanation
Introduction
Setting the Scene
Chapter 1
Ruskin, Morris, and the First California Arts & Crafts House
Chapter 2
Russian Hill: An Early Arts & Crafts Neighborhood
Chapter 3
The Swedenborgian Church and the First Mission Style Chair
Chapter 4
The First American Arts & Crafts Society, San Francisco, 1894
Chapter 5
“A Cottage All of Our Own”: Polk and Coxhead
Chapter 6
Hillside Architecture: Maybeck and Keeler
Chapter 7
Early Environmentalists, Yosemite, and a Garden Suburb
Chapter 8
John Galen Howard and “His Wizard” Continue Two Arts & Crafts
Traditions
Chapter 9
The California Shingle Style
Chapter 10
Arts & Crafts Expansion: Mission, Pueblo, and Mediterranean
Styles
Chapter 11
Conclusion and Speculations: The Golden State Inspires America
Abbreviations
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits