Building Notes

This Hawaiian-styled house served as the sales office for a residential development of custom houses near San Francisco, CA, c. 1957. According to an article in House and Home, Hawaiian design would be the new big trend in Western home building: "In California production houses Hawaiian will mean hip roofs with slight upswings at the corners, sometimes created by building up edges with wood shingles. Other Pacific-island touches: oriental grills over windows, a lanai or porch with sliding glass doors to a patio, sliding shoji screens, oriental landscaping, more fencing and gates." (See "What the leaders are doing; West Coast builders ask: Is this the new look for 1958," House and Home, 10/1957, p. 176.)

PCAD id: 15891