Touring Wright’s Vision for the Masses
By Thomas Shess West Coast Craftsman Founding Editor Frank Lloyd Wright’s other South Central Pennsylvania residential masterpiece hails from the icon architect’s Usonian period in his career. Called Kentuck Knob, the home was designed when Wright was in his 80s for I.N. and Bernadine Hagan in the mid-1950s. The couple was influenced by Wright’s other [...]
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
The San Diego Museum of Art will present “Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement” June 18 through Sept. 11, an exhibition that will examine Stickley’s contributions to the history of American design and architecture during his most productive and creative period from 1900 to 1913. The exhibit will provide new insights into [...]
Touring the Mission Hills Historic District
Preservationists lead April 16 walk Allen Hazard and Janet O’Dea are more than husband and wife. They are longtime Mission Hills residents, historians and preservationists who, on April 16, will take visitors on an “Insider’s Walking Tour” of the Mission Hills Historic District, home to some of the finest architectural masterpieces of the early 20th [...]
Home Tour celebrates Cliff May’s classic hacienda style
SOHO event focuses on Kensington/Talmadge, Presidio Hills, Loma Portal By Alana Coons Photos by Sandé Lollis Designer Cliff May’s earliest, hacienda-style homes from 1932 to1936 will be open together for the first time during Save Our Heritage Organisation’s annual Home Tour Weekend March 26 and 27. The day-long, self-guided home tour on March 27 will [...]
The Many Homes of Edward F. Bryans
The prolific builder established homes in a variety of styles By Katherine Hon It would be difficult to find a more versatile San Diego builder than Edward F. Bryans. From his arrival in San Diego in 1912 to his retirement in the early 1940s, he built structures in every style of the time, including Craftsman, [...]
Sheryll Jackmans’ Seaside Home a story of driving entrepreneurialism
By Bob Page After jumping through a multitude of bureaucratic hulu hoops, Sheryll Jackman is nearing the opening of her fabulous new Seaside Home store in La Jolla. The permitting process is cumbersome at best, even when you hire a respected architect who is paid to know his way around the city’s obstacles. Unfortunately, that [...]
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