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Victorian
1825-1901. Named after Queen Victoria, born 1819, who reigned from 1837-1901. -
Andrew Jackson Downing publishes Cottage Residences
Cottage Residences eBook
This book popularizes the Gothic Revival style -
Gold Rush
Yields $300M and draws many settlers, merchants and bankers to SF -
The Architecture of Country Houses
A.J. Downing publishes The Architecture of Country Houses, a book of stone homes in the Italian countryside. The book starts the Italianate Style just in time to take advantage of the money from the Gold Rush. SF Italianate homes are built of wood to imitate stone. -
California admitted as a state
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Introduction of the street car to San Francisco
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Comstock Lode
The first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located under what is now Virginia City, Nevada. Comstock Lode yields $375M in silver and gold, most of which goes through San Francisco -
Arts and Crafts movement starts
Morris started the Arts and Crafts movement in 1859 by building his own home, Red House at Bexley Heath, designed by his friend, architect Philip Webb, as an early example of the style. Morris is prolific, successful, and influential -
CIVIL WAR breaks out
Famous SF socialite and fireman-admirer Lillie Hitchcock Coit recruits, intoxicates and seduces for the South. Union Square is so-named after gatherings there to support the North. -
CIVIL WAR ends
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Charles Eastlake publishes his critique ofthe Gothic Revival Style
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Cable car service starts in San Francisco
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Electrical service started in San Francisco
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Telephone service in San Francisco
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First Arts and Crafts exhibit in London
The movement influenced Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Willis Polk, Greene & Greene, and other architects and inspired them to create American and local versions of the style. One version would become the First Bay Area Style. -
Edwardian
1901-1918. Named for King Edward VII, Queen Victoria’s son,who reigned from 1901-1910. -
Hermann Muthesius publishes The English House
A massive three volume survey of the “practical lessons” of the Arts and Crafts movement. -
SF Earthquake
Earthquake and fire destroy downtown San Francisco. The homesalong Van Ness Boulevard are dynamited to stop the spread of the fire to the west. Rebuilding begins immediately. -
Deutscher Werkbund
Hermann Muthesius brought those ideas back to Germany and started the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907. The Werkbund was a group of architects, designers, artists and industrialists that later formed the Bauhaus. -
Panama Pacific International Exhibition
Exhibition celebrates the opening of the Panama Canal and the rebirth of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake -
SF Streetcar service runs through Twin Peaks and to the Sunset
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Le Corbusier publishes Towards An Architecture
a book that advocates a modern architecture based on pure function and pure form, not based on the past. -
Stock Market crashes
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The International Style Since 1922 exhibition opens in NYC MoMA
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Rise of Fascism in Europe
Avant-garde architects flee to the US.Ex: Mies van der Rohe to Illinois Institute of Tech, Walter Gropius to Harvard -
WWII starts
WWII boosts SF population to a record 800,000, many stay in SF after the war. -
WWII ends
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Victorian and Edwardian homes are bulldozed for urban renewal
Tens of thousands of Victorian and Edwardian homes are bulldozed for urban renewal in the Western Addition, Golden Gateway, Japantown, Diamond Heights and Yerba Buena,catalyzing the preservation movement -
Hippies...
Are attracted to the cheap rents in the Haight and paint its Victorian & Edwardian homes garish colors -
Postmodernism
Architect Robert Venturi rejects International Style Modernism in his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture,unleashing the Postmodernists -
Loma Prieta Earthquake
At 5:04 p.m., the Loma Prieta earthquake strikes, measures7.1 on the Richter Scale, severely damages the Marina District and parts of SOMA, and prompts stricter building codes, upgrades to existing buildings and better code enforcement -
Dot Com Bubble
Many lofts built in SOMA (1995-2000)
