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English: Proposed lamp standard for Market Street

Identifier: architectenginee4416sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Branch Offices: 117-218 Colman Building . . - - - - . - Seattle Wash. 504-505 McKay Building Portland. Ore. 8i6 Paulsen Building Spokane. Wash. 563 I. W.Hellman Building Los Angeles, Cal. MOUNT DIABLO CEMENT COWELL SANTA CRUZ LIME ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIALS HENRY COWELL LIME & CEMENT CO. Phone Kearny 2095 No. 2 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO When writinK to Advertisers please mention this magazine. 116 The Architect and Enzhieer San Francisco to Have New White Way EARLY last fall the Downtown Mer-chants Association of San Franciscoconcluded that a new lighting systemwas needed along Market street, themain thoroughfare of the city. W. DARyan, who was chief of illumination forthe Panama-Pacific International Expo-sition, was requested to design an effect-ive means of illumination. After a
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Proposed Lamp Standard for Markt^l Strc<.-t,San Francisco thorough study of the conditions Mr.Ryan recommended the use of luminousarc lamps mounted on standards to besupported by the existing trolley polesalong the street. Each standard carriesthree lamps mounted in the form of atriangle with its plane transverse to thestreet as is shown in the accompanyingillustration which shows the type adopted.This ornamental standard is to replacethe present top piece. It carries threeluminous arc lamps provided with a newform of glassware to better diffuse thelight. The standards are 29 ft. in heightand are to be spread at an average of110 ft. intervals on either side of the street. In the 1.42 miles from the Ferryto Seventh street, 137 poles will be thusequipped. In addition 16 lamps are tobe installed on four standards in frontof the Ferry Building by the Board ofHarbor Commissioners and four 3-lightstandards will be erected by the PalaceHotel along New Montgomery street. The system is to b

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  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture
  • booksubject:Building
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco__Calif____Architect_and_Engineer_Co
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
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  • bookleafnumber:399
  • bookcollection:sanfranciscopubliclibrary
  • bookcollection:americana
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