San Francisco's St. Francis Wood
By: Richard Brandi ; photography by Mark Citret
Contributors: Citret, Mark
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Outside Lands Media
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780982346129
Subjects: Neighborhoods; Pictorial works; History
Other titles: Saint Francis Wood
Description: On heavily forested land remote from developed San Francisco, the Mason-McDuffie Company sought in 1912 to create a residence park that embodied the highest ideals of early twentieth century landscaping and architecture. St. Francis Wood attracted some of the Bay Area's most accomplished designers and architects, from John Galen Howard to Henry Gutterson to Julia Morgan, and despite early difficulties, flowered into one of the coutrny's most successful examples of a City Beautiful "garden suburb." Featuring historical images, a visual inventory of homes and stunning present-day photographs, this is the sotry of one of San Francisco's finest residential neighborhoods -- Publisher's description..
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 296-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: The land; title: The residence park; title: The plan; title: The marketing of St. Francis Wood; title: Henry Gutterson; title: The architects; title: Traditional architecture; title: Community life; title: Change and renewal.