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Victorian Homes of San Francisco

Great history on both San Francisco's Victorian architecture. The different styles are defined with photographs and details from specifice San Francisco neighborhoods

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Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area

Twelve Bay Area experts provide a historic record of how the area developed. Included are San Francisco Victorians, civic buildings, churches, parks, grand Period Revivals, and rustic Arts and Crafts homes.

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Bracing for Disaster: Earthquake-Resistant Architecture and Engineering in San Francisco, 1838-1933

Filled with more than two hundred photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, Bracing for Disaster is a revealing look at the history of buildings by a true expert, and it offers lessons not just for San Francisco but for any city beset by natural disasters.

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Art Deco San Francisco: The Architecture of Timothy Pflueger

Pflueger began practicing architecture after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. While his contemporaries looked to Beaux-Arts traditions to rebuild the city, he brought exotic Mayan, Asian, and Egyptian forms to buildings ranging from simple cocktail lounges to the city's first skyscrapers.

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San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture

San Francisco Chinatown traces the development of the neighborhood from the city's earliest days to its post-quake transformation into an "oriental" tourist attraction as a pragmatic means of survival.

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