Gables and Fables: A Portrait of San Francisco's Pacific Heights
1597140554
9781597140553
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Enter the world of cornices, cupolas, and colonnettes, prestigious architects, and even more prestigious residents Charming and deeply informative, part historical detective work and part gossip column, this 400-page book offers an architectural and social history of one of San Francisco s most attractive neighborhoods, Pacific Heights. Illustrated with specially commissioned art, the book tells the stories of 110 houses designed variously by Ernest Coxhead, Willis Polk, Houghton Sawyer, Julia Morgan, William Wurster, and other great architects, along with lively and engaging accounts of the moguls, entrepreneurs, artists, mariners, recluses, and charlatans who have lived in them.
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