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Building Notes

An article in the Architect and Engineer of 1914 indicated that the Peralta Apartments were designed by San Francisco Edward T. Foulkes (1874-1967) and was one of the first in the Bay Area to have been painted in a new type of cement coating. The article stated: "The Peralta Apartment building, Oakland, is receiving considerable attention by San Francisco and bay cities architects because of the fact of its having been one of the first large buildings about the bay district to be painted with a cement finish. This building is located at Thirteenth and Jackson streets, Oakland, and was built nearly five years ago by H.D. Atkinson from plans by Architect Edward T. Foulkes of San Francisco. The cement work was painted with two coats of the Muralo Company's Concreto Cement Coasting and the local representatives of that firm are pointing with considerable pride at the present splendid condition of the paint on this building." (See "Cement Paint Stands Test of Years," Architect and Engineer, vol. XXXVI, no. 2, March 1914, p. 132.)

Alteration

Extensive seismic bracing has been added between the light courts of the Peralta Apartments. Exterior walls displayed large-scale use of added anchor plates.

PCAD id: 23250