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Tucker Building, 1516 Jefferson Street & 595 Sixteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA
Location1516 Jefferson Street & 595 Sixteenth Street,
Oakland, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2645
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: "[the Tucker Building] is an attractive example of small-scale 1920s storefront/light industrial architecture, and typifies the less intense development on the fringes of downtown."
Related Names
Tucker, A. J.
Rich, James L.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
CONTEXTUAL VIEW OF TUCKER BUILDING FROM ACROSS JEFFERSON STREET, CAMERA FACING SOUTHEAST
VIEW OF NORTH ELEVATION, CAMERA FACING SOUTH
VIEW OF WEST ELEVATION, CAMERA FACING EAST
VIEW OF EAST ELEVATION, CAMERA FACING WEST
VIEW OF SOUTH ELEVATION, CAMERA FACING NORTH
VIEW OF SOUTHWEST CORNER, CAMERA FACING NORTHEAST
DETAIL OF BASE OF BUILDING, NORTH ELEVATION, CAMERA FACING SOUTH
INTERIOR GROUND FLOOR, LOADING DOORS AT SOUTH END OF BUILDING
INTERIOR, SECOND STORY, DETAIL OF CASEMENT WINDOWS, CAMERA FACING WEST
INTERIOR, LOFT AT NORTH END OF BUILDING, CAMERA FACING EAST
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