This wonderful mostly modern-international style apartment building building is located on the corner of Robinson and Georgia. But wait, is this really North Park? Yep, it is. I was surprised when I found out that North Park starts at Park Boulevard.
The building sports curved corners, sculptural staircases, thin flat rooves over the entry doors and roof top decks/gardens. These are typical of international style buildings. The hip roofs are not of the international style.
In a few of the pictures I’ve ghosted out the unfortunate surrounding buildings. Its nice to imagine how this very different building would have been received in its time.
This house, built in 1920, is located behind me on Louisiana Street. I’ve often admired it. In the November issue of The West Coast Craftsman section of San Diego North Park News an article titled “Heritage Begins at Home : Fixing one bungalow at a time” by Thomas Shess we learn about Larry Salazar who restored it and many other craftsman homes in North Park. The article can be found on page 25 of the newspapers electronic version found at the follow link:
http://content.yudu.com/A18xjt/NorthParkNews/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fsdnorthparknews.com%2F
The house shown above is located at 2674 Louisiana Street, North Park, San Diego, CA 92104
This contemporary house is located in the northern reaches of North Park. The rear of the house overlooks Mission Valley. In talking with a neighbor of the house I heard a similar refrain to the house my wife and I built in the Morely Field neighborhood of North Park: “It doesn’t belong in North Park. It doesn’t fit in.” Our neighbors called our house “The La Jolla” house as in its something that would better fit there. I understand the sentiment. With our house we were sure not to take down a wonderful craftsman or Spanish style. We took down a box. We then built a 1930’s modern-Adolf Loos-Frank Llyod Wright-ish house. I’m not for being stuck in the past and I am for being sensitive to it. Our house can be seen here. http://www.marcfredrickson.com/architect/AMF_FredricksonResidenceMain.html
The house pictured in this blog post can be found at 2870 Copley Ave, North Park, San Diego, 92116.
Behind lush tropical plantings a nice art deco apartment complex hides. The three-banded rounded-at-the-corners eyebrow over the window very well done. The buildings are simple with enough art deco details to pull it all together. Although not San Diego colors, the color scheme works well with the buildings.
The complex is located at 4110 Kansas Street, North Park, San Diego, CA 92104.
