Art History 164
Romanesque Architecture

Winter 2000

Guides

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Some Buildings in the Bay Area with Reminiscences, However Slight, of Romanesque Art

compiled from David Gebhard et al. (Gebhard-Woodbridge guide),

A Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California

(Peregrine Smith, Inc.)

Santa Cruz, former County Bank, Cooper and Pacific, c. 1890
(now stores, e.g., Pacific Wave Surf and Snow)

Los Gatos, Fretwell Building, Main and University, c. 1890

San Jose Art Museum, Market and San Fernando, 1892 (built as Post Office)
Letitia Building, 66-72 S. 1st Street, 1890
Southern Pacific Station, with Lombard bands
Stanford University, Quadrangle, 1891, Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge; Frederick Law
Olmsted, Landscape artchitect
Memorial Church, 1903, partially rebuilt after the earthquake, 1913,
Charles Allerton Coolidge, C. E. Hodges
Chemistry Building, 1902, C. E. Hodges
Encina Hall, 1891, Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge (extensive fire damage, 1972)
earlier brick barn, with Lombard bands, near Quarry & Welch Roads
 

Oakland, First Church of Christ Scientist, 17th and Franklin Streets, 1902,

Henry A. Schultze

 

Alameda, First Congregational Church, Central Avenue and Chestnut, 1904, Daniel F. Oliver
City Hall, Santa Clara and Oak, 1896 (mixed with Gothic)

 

Berkeley, First Church of Christ Scientist, Dwight Way and Bowditch Street, 1910,
Bernard Maybeck, one of the foremost California architects. Open Sundays, or call ahead.

 

San Francisco, St. Anne's, 850 Judah
(facade à la St-Gilles (Provence) interior Italian Romanesque with a barrel vault)
St. Brigid's, Broadway and Van Ness (Italian basilican mode)
First Unitarian Church, Franklin and Geary, 1888 (mixed with Gothic)
Park Headquarters, Golden Gate Park, John F. Kennedy Drive near Stanyan, 1896,
E. R. Swain
Children's House, Golden Gate Park, near South and Kezar Drives, 1885,
Percy and Hamilton
(140 Maiden Lane, 1949, Frank Lloyd Wright,
originally V. C. Morris Gift Shop--exterior has reminiscences of Romanesque)

Sonoma, City Hall, Sonoma Plaza facing Broadway, 1906, H. C. Lutgens

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