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(More customer reviews)I just bought this book from Amazon.com after seeing it displayed at Gumps in DT San Francisco (I had recently took a trip out there for work). Having actually lived in the Pacific Heights area (for seven years in the 1990s), I was excited to see a book about many of the houses and apartment buildings that I used to regularly walk by. I was always curious about who lived in them and what they were like on the inside.
After reading several of the book's chapters, I am thoroughly disappointed with the lack of detail. Personally, I have learned so much more by reading my old Access Travel Guide to San Francisco (the chapter about the Pac. Heights neighborhood) - Access' select entries (in just a few sentences) told me so much more about some of these homes and / or blocks.
I suggest you buy the Access - San Francisco Travel Guide (even a used one) or perhaps some other detailed travel book of The City that features this neighborhood.
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Enter the world of cornices, cupolas, and colonnettes, prestigious architects, and even more prestigious residentsCharming and deeply informative, part historical detective work and part gossip column, this 400-page book offers an architectural and social history of one of San Francisco s most attractive neighborhoods, Pacific Heights. Illustrated with specially commissioned art, the book tells the stories of 110 houses designed variously by Ernest Coxhead, Willis Polk, Houghton Sawyer, Julia Morgan, William Wurster, and other great architects, along with lively and engaging accounts of the moguls, entrepreneurs, artists, mariners, recluses, and charlatans who have lived in them.
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