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Stulsaft Building, 1517-1519 Clay Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA
Location1517-1519 Clay Street,
Oakland, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2644
Building/structure dates:
1924 initial construction
Significance: This building is a contributing structure to the Oakland Downtown district. The Oakland Cultural Heritage Survey describes the district as, "...an architecturally, historically, and functionally distinct area within central Oakland. It contains the City Hall and a strong concentration of well-preserved commercial buildings from about 1900 to 1929, spanning two boom periods for Oakland, the East Bay response to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, and the intense real estate and financial growth of the 1920s. These urbane, mostly Beaux-Arts inspired buildings display a general unity of style and scale, and represent many of the better-known Bay Area commercial architects of the period. In their siting and relation to each other, with 17-21-story "skyscrapers" punctuating lower construction, they represent an urban design termed "ideal" by City Beautiful planner Werner Hegemann in 1915, and gave Oakland a distinctive and much-photographed skyline. Downtown's development was one of a series of distinct stages whereby Oakland's commercial center moved north along Broadway from its original waterfront location in the 1850s, to Uptown (around 20th) in the 1930s. The economics of the era in which the 14th and Broadway district developed made it Oakland's office and financial center, in contrast to the Old Oakland district alterations and demolitions, in their historic relationships to one another, skyscrapers spaced among lower buildings, creating a still-distinctive downtown Oakland skyline." According to the Oakland Cultural Heritage Survey: "This building is typical of the pattern of small-scale speculative development in downtown Oakland in the 1920s, and part of an unbroken group of 1913-24 buildings along the west side of Clay between 15th and 17th Streets. It is a good example of 1920s glass and terra cotta store design..."
Related Names
Hoyt, H. P.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
CONTEXTUAL VIEW OF STULSAFT BUILDING FROM CLAY STREET, CAMERA FACING NORTHWEST
VIEW OF PRIMARY ENTRANCE, CLAY STREET FACADE, CAMERA FACING WEST
VIEW OF SOUTH ELEVATION, CAMERA FACING SOUTH
DETAIL OF PILASTER AT CLAY STREET ELEVATION
DETAIL OF SHEET METAL CORNICE AT CLAY STREET ELEVATION
STOREFRONT ENTRY, 1519 CLAY STREET, CAMERA FACING WEST
INTERIOR, GROUND FLOOR RETAIL SPACE, 1519 CLAY STREET, CAMERA FACING WEST
INTERIOR, STAIRCASE TO SECOND FLOOR, 1519 CLAY STREET CAMERA FACING WEST
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