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Architect John Carden Campbell--then Director of San Francisco's California School of Design--designed this two-story house for a 60-foot by 80-foot hillside site that overlooked the San Francisco Bay and had views of Downtown San Francisco. It was a piece of land sub-divided from an old estate. The house has the vertical aesthetic Campbell became known for and one that reflected the increasingly costly lots in the Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s. One entered the first floor and immediately entered an entry hall and stairway. To the west lay a large study/bedroom for Campbell, a single bath, and a guest room. Above, the second floor featured one large space that accommodated living and dining functions. a small Pullman kitchen was placed at the house's southwest corner. The living/dining room space had 12-foot ceilings; the interior design won a National Association of Interior Designers (AID) Honor Award in 1968. Siding was unusual on this

Architect's own house; the building's exterior had Campbell's characteristic exposed framing of with beams placed close together to create a strongly vertical emphasis. On the exterior of his residences, Campbell often emphasized the intersecting structural points of posts and crossbeams. This house had what the architect called "crystal cut" vertical cedar siding, in which 2-foot by 8-foot cedar planks were cut twice, width-wise on angle, to create an irregularly faceted exterior surface.

PCAD id: 16314