Arts and Crafts from Europe to America: William Morris, Maybeck, Greene and Greene

William Morris, 1834-96

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Red House, Bexley Heath, Kent, 1859, designed for William Morris by Philip Webb, 1831-1915

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Morris Co.jpg (49159 bytes) Furniture catalogue, Morris and Co

Charles Greene and Henry Greene

Gamble House, Pasadena, CA, 1907-8

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James House, Carmel, CA,

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Bernard Maybeck, 1862-1957

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Hearst Hall, Berkeley, CA, 1899, moved 1901, burned 1922

Hearst hall.jpg (59157 bytes) Built for Phoebe Hearst to house events related to her international competition for a campus design for Berkeley; subsequently reassembled as a gymnasium for the campus.

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Roos House, San Francisco, CA

Roos house.jpg (75617 bytes) Roos house2.jpg (42270 bytes) Roos house3.jpg (56073 bytes) The main living room with gothic furniture and light fittings designed by Maybeck.

Wallen Maybeck House II, CA, 1937

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First Church of Christ Scientist, Berkeley, CA, 1910

 

First church.jpg (87409 bytes) Note the industrial sash glazing combined with gothic tracery windows

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Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915

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