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Marketplace Vernacular Design: The Case of Downtown Rooming Houses
Paul E.
GrothSlide2
Familiar Question: Qui est Paul
Groth
?
Paul
Groth
and Chris Wilson,
eds.
Everyday
America: J. B. Jackson and Recent Cultural Landscape Studies
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Paul
Groth
.
Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1998; electronic edition,
netLibrary
, 2001).
Paul
Groth
. "Guidebooks as Community Service,"
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook
62 (2000): 11-25.
Paul
Groth
. "Making New Connections in Vernacular Architecture,"
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
, 58:3 (1999): 444-451.
Paul
Groth
. "J. B. Jackson and Geography,"
The Geographical Review
, 88:4 (1998): iii-vi.
Paul
Groth
and Todd
Bressi
, eds.
Understanding Ordinary Landscapes
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Paul
Groth
and Marta Gutman. "Workers Houses in West Oakland." In Suzanne Stewart and Mary
Praetzellis
, eds.,
Sights and Sounds: Essays in Celebration of West Oakland
(California Department of Transportation with the Anthropological Studies Center, Sonoma State University, 1997): 31-84.
Paul
Groth
. "San Francisco's Third and Howard Streets: Skid Row and the Limits of Architecture," in Diane
Favro
,
Zeynip
Celik
, and Richard Ingersoll, eds.,
Streets of the World: Critical Perspectives on Public Space
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994): 23-34.
Groth
, Paul.
Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States
. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994.
Groth
, Paul. "Tithing for Environmental Education: A Modest Proposal."
Places
7, No. 1 (Fall, 1990): 38-41.
Groth
, Paul. "Lot, Yard, and Garden: American Distinctions."
Landscape
30, No. 3 (1990): 29-36.
Groth
, Paul, ed.
Vision, Culture, and Landscape: Working Papers from the Berkeley Symposium on Cultural Landscape Interpretation, March, 1990
. Berkeley, CA: Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California, 1990.
Groth
, Paul. "Generic Buildings and Cultural Landscapes as Sources of Urban History."
Journal of Architectural Education
41, No. 3 (Spring, 1988): 41-44.
Paul
Groth
. "'Marketplace' Vernacular Design: The Case of Downtown Rooming Houses," in Camille Wells, ed.,
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, II
(University of Missouri Press, 1986).
Groth
, Paul
Erling
. "Forbidden Housing: The Evolution And Exclusion Of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Rooming Houses, And Lodging Houses In American Cities, 1880-1930."
Ph.d
. Dissertation. University Of California, Berkeley, 1983.
Groth
, Paul. "Street Grids as Frameworks for Urban Variety."
Harvard Architectural Review
2 (1981): 68-75. Slide3
Invisible homes
What types of residences is Paul talking about?
What are the social needs?
What are effective sampling strategies?Slide4
Goals of research
Four issues of investigation into vernacular buildings.
Focusing
Sampling
Classifying
Characterizing
Case study of unexamined building type.
Same design issues as suburban housingSlide5Slide6
97 Orchard Street, 1864
1903 Dumb bell
aptsSlide7
Is this vernacular?
Not easily understood as vernacular design.
Better
characterized as Market design.
How
should we distinguish vernacular and market design?Slide8Slide9
San Francisco housing
Single room, hotels, and room houses
Rank by cost/class
Palace hotels (1:1 bathroom by 1890)
Middle priced hotels (1:1 bathroom by 1920s)
Rooming houses (1:4 or 1:6 bathroom by 1910)
Lodging houses (1:12 bathroom ratio by 1910)Slide10Slide11Slide12Slide13
Market design
Ground floor is commercial.
2
nd
/3
rd
floors commercial housing
1880 to 1910 changes to downtown rooming hotels.
Not temporary, but lack a lobby.
Sink in every room
Light wells or set backsSlide14
Modular (repeatable) units in designSlide15Slide16
Entrance to Sierra HotelSlide17
Finding class in classless society
Downtown rooming houses speak about class.
They are not place identified.
Not “mere commodities.”
Owners and managers paid attention to what most reliable tenants wanted.
Design by moving.Slide18
How are working class different?
Little of personal identification from living quarters.
Variation in the amount of personalization roomers make.
Social identity from the location and basic conditions of their homes.