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JULIA
MORGAN: PIONEER IN GREEN DESIGN BY MARK A. WILSON With all of the emphasis in recent years on sustainable design, or "green architecture" as some have called it, many architectural critics and historians have overlooked the fact that this concept first appeared in America many years ago; in fact, over a century ago. The revolutionary design philosophy known as First Bay Tradition had its roots in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1890's...more |
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St. John's Presbyterian Church Berkeley, California |
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"ALL
IN THE FAMILY: FAMILY OWNED HISTORIC HOTELS"
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By Mark Wilson In his last series, Mark described several examples of the fairly recent trend towards historic "boutique" hotels; small scale hotels in historic buildings that offer sophisticated ambience at reasonable prices. In this month’s series, he will explore a phenomenon that is actually bucking the major trends in the hotel industry: family owned hotels in historic buildings, which retain their historic charm even after recent remodeling...more | ||
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Bancrot Hotel
Berkeley, California |
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THE
GREATEST GENERATION: MY FATHER'S JOURNEY THROUGH WORLD WAR TWO With each passing day, America looses a thousand members of the generation that fought and won World War II. That sad fact does not begin to convey the impact that the death of a single member of that "greatest generation" has, when it is someone from your own family. My father, Donald "Drew" Wilson, was a World War II veteran, and a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. He died on January 5th., 2006, of a stroke due to diabetes at the age of 80. He was not a decorated war hero. But he did his part, like millions of other GIs in his generation, to defeat fascism in order to give his children a better world. That fact made him a hero in my eyes...more |
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| Donald
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in the uniform of the 398th. Engineers Regiment |
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