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SOLD: West Walnut Condominium
SOLD: West Walnut Condominium
This amazing south-facing end-unit townhome hosts fantastic breezes and sun-bathed living spaces year-round through windows and sliding glass doors facing east, west and south. This unique Bankers Hill home, in a
4-unit complex, strikes the perfect balance between urban conveniences and secluded privacy. With a significant investment in the interior, the next owner will enjoy a number of contemporary finishes including Marmoleum flooring and a new kitchen.
SOLD: Columbia Point TownHouse
SOLD: Columbia Point TownHouse
The fantastic views lighting up the interior of this Bankers Hill townhome from Columbia Point's cul-de-sac location are just the beginning. Completely remodeled over the years including cabinetry, wood flooring, lighting, appliances, polished concrete flooring and tile work throughout, this is a dream vantage point for your next living space.
Specs
3 Bed 3.5 Bath
Price
1,105,000
Listing Agent
Keith York - Agents of Architecture, Inc.
SOLD: Salomon Building Condo by Henry Hester
SOLD: Salomon Building Condo by Henry Hester
Henry Hester designed an apartment building for Col. Irving Salomon and his wife Cecile who for decades occupied the building' penthouse. Widely published era photographs by Julius Shulman and local AIA chapter and press accolades brought much-deserved attention to the four-story plan of private units. During the conversion of the apartment building to condominiums, the developer worked diligently to preserve remaining fixtures, restore the garden, lobby and pool areas and compose decorative vignettes using contemporary reissues of period designs.
Architect
Henry Hartwell Hester
Specs
2 Bed 2 Bath
Price
762,500
Listing Agent
Keith York, Big Block Realty, Inc.
SOLD: Easton House by Irving Gill
SOLD: Easton House by Irving Gill
First time on the market since 1962, architect Irving J. Gill’s Banker’s Hill residence for George Easton (1908) is a truly rare example of the birth of modern residential architecture. With its Prairie Style eaves the Easton House exemplifies a transition to the architect’s purest forms. The house includes a number of Gill interior and exterior details that will engage the passions of its next owner.
First referenced in The Builder and Contractor* in 1908, the George D. Easton house was later noted in Esther McCoy’s text Irving Gill 1870-1936 a catalog for a 1958 exhibition/partnership between Art Center La Jolla and the Los Angeles County Museum. More recently, Thomas Hines acknowledged this project in his book Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform: A Study in Modernist Architectural Culture.
With recent exhibitions at San Diego History Center and La Jolla Historical Society, the interest in Gill’s work continues to grow. In fact, the Easton House was noted on the walking tour ‘Transitioning to Modern in Uptown’ adjacent to the Irving J. Gill Foundation’s Irving J. Gill: Transitioning to Modern symposium in April 2018.
Consider that Viennese architect Adolf Loos and Gill’s mentor Louis Sullivan were among the very few that believed, as Gill did, that stripping a building of its ornament was key to reaching a purity. In his 1892 essay Ornament in Architecture, Sullivan wrote “…a building, quite devoid of ornament, may convey a noble and dignified sentiment by virtue of mass and proportion…I should say that it would be greatly for our aesthetic good if we should refrain entirely from the use of ornament for a period of years, in order that our thought might concentrate acutely upon the production of buildings well-formed and comely in the nude…”
*In The Builder and Contractor (July 24, 1908 issue), under the column “San Diego Building Permits”, we found the following: “Residence, 8 rooms, 2nd and Upas sts; George D. Easton, 2330 1st st; owner Irving J Gill architect, W J Kirkwood 1554 Fifth st, bldr”
Architect
Irving John Gill
Specs
3 Bed 4 Bath
Price
1,310,000
Listing Agent
Keith York, Big Block Realty, Inc.
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