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Architecture

I my father built our first house in Woodland Hills overlooking the Valley in this same style.

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A personal message from the Stahl family After 65 years, our family has made the heartfelt and very difficult decision to place the Stahl House on the market. This home has been the center of our lives for decades, but as we’ve gotten older, it has become increasingly challenging to care for it
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augustiron said:
Not sure I could get by with just a four car garage tho unless there was a separate Barn / shed / workshop area

3/2 , 4 car attached car park garage, separate detached barn workshop.

And acreage is nice because it means your neighbors are further away
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I am surfing homes again. 3 car garage single story. The good thing is the Mrs has expanded the areas that are acceptable to her.

There are just not that many here in suburbia.
 
I know. Too far away from the fam. Oh well I tried.
 
I have a feeling it will be a long wait.
 
You can most always add onto the back of a two car garage. I have enough room behind my garage to add on roughly 35 feet.
 
‘Scribed.

Wannabe artichoke here. Ended up a civil engineer.

Anyhoo.

I heart:
  • Eichler (need Stude Avanti)
  • Brutalist
  • Prairie Style
  • Niemayer
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Philip Johnson (The Embarcaderos)
  • Styles unique to certain countries, e.g., Estonian countryside homes.
  • California Ranch
  • Concrete homes (not necessarily Brutalist)
  • Ryokan
Random:

My uncle owned a Julia Morgan Burlingame home. He should’ve kept it in the family.

Queen Annes are cute but interiors too small.

I heart guys that renovate old gas stations into a residence.
 
Mike95060 said:
This is what I mean when I say I think a building should look like it belongs where it is. This is concrete I like.
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Yes ! Also interested in "rammed earth" and "straw bale" construction.
Brutalist... naw, just too cold and heavy.

Lizard, Didn't know Julia Morgan did "small" personal residences, will have to check that out. More familiar with the Big Stuff like the bell tower at Mills College, Oakland, Fairmont Hotel, SF (after the 1906 earthquake), Hearst Castle and later extensive remodel of Phoebe Hearst’s Hacienda del Pozo de Verona at Castlewood Country Club, Pleasanton, plus many other buildings. My Senior Ball was held at "The Hacienda", sadly it was destroyed fire in 1969. (IIRC)
Pretty extraordinary Lady.
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I’m not sure if anyone knows it, but there is a rammed earth home in Willow Glen.
 
FLH03RIDER said:
Yes ! Also interested in "rammed earth" and "straw bale" construction.
Brutalist... naw, just too cold and heavy.

Lizard, Didn't know Julia Morgan did "small" personal residences, will have to check that out. More familiar with the Big Stuff like the bell tower at Mills College, Oakland, Fairmont Hotel, SF (after the 1906 earthquake), Hearst Castle and later extensive remodel of Phoebe Hearst’s Hacienda del Pozo de Verona at Castlewood Country Club, Pleasanton, plus many other buildings. My Senior Ball was held at "The Hacienda", sadly it was destroyed fire in 1969. (IIRC)
Pretty extraordinary Lady.
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The Julia Morgan House uncle died a few years ago. I wish I could remember the address.

I’ve searched through the City of Burlingame’s website and numerous Julia Morgan resources to no avail.

I’m not close to my cousins, perhaps at the next family funeral I’ll run into one of them, “I’m so sorry for your loss; what was your Burlingame home’s address?”

FWIW - I grew up, as well in other locales, in Walnut Creek. Our neighbor was an FBI agent who once said “Patricia Campbell Hearst, you’re under arrest.”
 
Julia Morgan (architect and engineer and the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California) was quite a prolific designer, with more than 700 other buildings in California during her career. She died in 1957 and was awarded the AIA Gold Medal posthumously in 2014.
Her first residential design (this had to be about 1907-8) completed after opening her own practice was listed for sale in 2024 for the first time in 50 years. Listed price was $1.9m, don't know the sale price. The 116-year-old home was owned by architect Claude Stoller until his death in 2023. It's located in Berkeley next to UC Berkeley and includes four bedrooms and 3.5 baths in a 2,555-square-foot envelope.

I have a couple of "Arts & Crafts Homes" magazines on the coffee table right now, some amazing stuff!
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FLH03RIDER said:
Julia Morgan (architect and engineer and the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California) was quite a prolific designer, with more than 700 other buildings in California during her career. She died in 1957 and was awarded the AIA Gold Medal posthumously in 2014.
Her first residential design (this had to be about 1907-8) completed after opening her own practice was listed for sale in 2024 for the first time in 50 years. Listed price was $1.9m, don't know the sale price. The 116-year-old home was owned by architect Claude Stoller until his death in 2023. It's located in Berkeley next to UC Berkeley and includes four bedrooms and 3.5 baths in a 2,555-square-foot envelope.

I have a couple of "Arts & Crafts Homes" magazines on the coffee table right now, some amazing stuff!
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Fantastic info. I just learned, thanks to you, she majored in civil engineering at Cal as there was no architecture program at the time. She then studied at the prestigious École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Assholes at AIA waited to posthumously award her
the AIA Gold Medal forty-seven (47) years after her death. Fuckers.
 
FLH03RIDER said:
Julia Morgan (architect and engineer and the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California) was quite a prolific designer, with more than 700 other buildings in California during her career. She died in 1957 and was awarded the AIA Gold Medal posthumously in 2014.
Her first residential design (this had to be about 1907-8) completed after opening her own practice was listed for sale in 2024 for the first time in 50 years. Listed price was $1.9m, don't know the sale price. The 116-year-old home was owned by architect Claude Stoller until his death in 2023. It's located in Berkeley next to UC Berkeley and includes four bedrooms and 3.5 baths in a 2,555-square-foot envelope.

I have a couple of "Arts & Crafts Homes" magazines on the coffee table right now, some amazing stuff!
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I hate shake siding :laughing
 
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Abacinator said:
I hate shake siding :laughing
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Installing shake as a full time job in my 20s is what made what I am today!! *















*After slicing off the tip of 2 fingers through my gloves on a bitter winter morning while side trimming a perfection shingle, and pondering my miserable future of doing this repetitive monotonous labor, day in and day out, year after year, on a never ending, never changing, endless parade of new construction developments..... And saying "Eff this, I have to go back to college"
 
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