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Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, Berkeley, c. 1900. Ernest Coxhead, archtiect, built 1894. The building survives today as part of the Goldman School of Public Policy

For more information see Berkeley Landmarks.

#Architecture #Ernest Coxhead #1894 #1900 #Berkeley

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Miyajima, on the slope of Mount Tam in Mill Valley, c. 1892. Built by George Marsh as a summer home for his family in the early 1890s, the property was a meticulous recreation of Japanese villas that Marsh had encoutnered while conducting business in 1870s Japan. (Marsh worked as an importer of Japanese arts and crafts into the United States, operating a small retail store in Ralston's Palace Hotel in San Francisco.)

The summer house was called Miyajima, allegedly translating to "Owl's nest." (It more accurately translates to "shrine island," and "Miyajima" is a nickname for Itsukushima, an island in the Seto Sea near Hiroshima.)

The entrance of Myiajima, which was served by the railroad up Mount Tam, had a Torii gate inspired by one at Nikko. The original summer house was built in an authentic manner, using no nails, and equipped with sliding Shoji windows but not with glass. Marsh added to the property over the years, ccreating guest cottages, an ampitheater, and other facilities, turning it into a small private resort. Unfortuantely, the facility burned in the 1890s and again in the 1920s, leaving no traces of Marsh's fantasy villa.

#1892 #1900 #Mill Valley #Mount Tamalpais #Architecture

The Japanese Tea Garden, c. 1895-1900

Originally called the Japanese Village, this was an exhibit at the California Midwinter International Exposition in San Francisco, held from January 27-Jly 5, 1894. The original village was designed by by Australian born businessman George T. Marsh, who spent four years in Japan working in international trade before arriving in San Francisco in the late 1870s. Marsh built a summer home for himself and his family on Mount Tamalpais in the early 1890s, then followed this up with the construction of the buildings and structures for the Japanese Village at the MIE 1894 fair. (Likely the fair included the village in an homage to one of the more striking exhibits at the World's Columbia Exposition in Chicago a year prior, the $650,000 Japanese exhibition put up by the Meiji government.)

After the MIE fair ended in July 1894, the park grounds became Golden Gate Park. The village was allowed to remain, and the park superintendent came to an agreement to allow the gardener in charge of the exhibit, Makoto Hagiwara, to become a live-in caretaker for the garden and expand it from its original one-acre ground into a five-acre landscape. garden. The Hagiwaras lived in this garden, caring for it and making it open to the public, for nearly fifty years, until the internment of ethnically Japanese citizens during World War Two forced the family to leave.

#1894 #1895 #1900 #San Francisco #Architecture #Gardens

Ludmilla Welch, Wildflowers on a hillside, c. 1900

#1900 #Mount Tamalpais

Ludmilla Welch, Marin Pastoral, c. 1900

#1900 #Nicasio

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Ludmilla Welch, Bolinas Bay, c. 1902

#1902 #Bolinas

Unknown Photographer, Abbotts Dairy, Olema, c. 1900

#1900 #Olema

Grove Karl Gilbert, Roadside crack [a mile] southeast of Inverness, 1906

#1906 #Earthquake #Inverness

Harry Oscar Wood, Offset in road from Point Reyes station to Inverness, 1906

#1906 #Point Reyes Station #Inverness #Earthquake

Summer home built by Henry Schluckebier, built 1896, seen c. 1900

#1896 #1900 #Olema #Architecture

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Botanist Alice Eastwood stands along the fault trace, near Olema, following the earthquake of April 18, 1906, Marin County, California [photograph]

#1906 #Earthquake

Photographer Unknown, The fault. [Woman sitting near fault scarp. Offset fence. Marin County.], July 4, 1906

#1906 #Earthquake

Photographer Unknown, Bach family estate in Kentfield, Marin County, California, c 1902

#1902 #Kentfield #Architecture

Photographer Unknown, Engine No. 13 wrecked near Clark Summit, Marin County

#1898

The Club House of the Country Club at Bear Valley, Marin County, California, circa 1893 [postcard]

#1893 #Bear Valley #Olema #Architecture

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Excursionists waiting to be picked up by the North Pacific Coast Railroad, Taylorville, Marin County, California, 1889

#1889 #Taylorville

George E. Butler Estate, "Brighthurst," Kentfield, California, c. 1890

#1890 #Kentfield #Architecture

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