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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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with fire-place finished in )jine. ()))ening olT from the dining room is an outdoor balconywhich overlooks the courts. The outside walls, up to the water table, have heavy, mugh reilwoml siding..Miove this to underside of eaves the walls are covered with extra heav\ cedarshingles stained gray and laid j inches to the weather. .\11 exterior trimis of redwood painted white. .\ massive rustic stone chinniey shows on thesouth side. There are ten tennis courts. All arc paved with a concrete base and as))hal-tnni to)) and entpty into an elaborate system of subsoil drains. The courts areenclosed with li-foot high wire fences and redwood posts. Two of tiie courtsare arrangetl for exhibition playing, the grand stands liavinga capacity of alunit2,000 jiersons. The wire fence al the exhibilicm courts is so built that it can beremoved during exhii)ition tournaments. The courts are on difTerent levels,being retained by heavy concrete gravity walls. 82 Tin- iRcuiTiiCT .1X1) h.\c;i.\i-.i:r
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THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 83 Oakland-Alameda Bascule Bridge IN conjunction with Mr. P. A. Haviland, County Engineer of Alamedacounty, the Southern Pacific Companys engineers have completed thepreliminary plans for the new $1,500,000 joint estuary bridge which isexpected to be a monument to the cities of Oakland and Alameda, tobring a wonderful development of traffic between Oakland and Alameda,to relieve the present congestion and delays on the roadway of the anti-quated Webster street bridge, and. as well, greatly improve navigation onthe channel, permitting freedom of movement of the largest vessels anddreadnaughts through the San Antonia Estuary. The plans indicate that the new bridge will be an imposing and artisticstructure, embodying the highest engineering skill, and providing metro-politan facilities for the great growth of the bay cities which the futureholds, and because it is a joint bridge the structure will be built on amuch larger and more elaborate scale than either th

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