View All Things To Do. View All Restaurants. View All Events. Stay In The Know Sign up for our monthly newsletter to receive updates, events, discounts and giveaways right in your inbox! Spanish Colonial Revival also provided California with a new historic architectural mode. During the s, s and s, modernization and further consolidation characterized the downtown core.
New growth patterns to the west and south of the center of the city changed the commercial desirability of the downtown core area of San Jose. New construction was virtually nonexistent until the government sponsored redevelopment programs of the s began razing of entire center city blocks for planned new development.
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria — , called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did not become popular until later in Victoria's reign, roughly from and later. The styles often included interpretations and eclectic revivals of historic styles. The name represents the British and French custom of naming architectural styles for a reigning monarch.
Within this naming and classification scheme, it followed Georgian architecture and later Regency architecture, and was succeeded by Edwardian architecture. The Fan is a district of Richmond, Virginia, so named because of the "fan" shape of the array of streets that extend west from Belvidere Street, on the eastern edge of Monroe Park, westward to Arthur Ashe Boulevard. However, the streets rapidly resemble a grid after they go through what is now Virginia Commonwealth University.
The Fan is one of the easterly points of the city's West End section, and is bordered to the north by Broad Street and to the south by VA , although the Fan District Association considers the southern border to be the properties abutting the south side of Main Street.
Many cafes and locally owned restaurants are located here, as well as historic Monument Avenue, a boulevard featuring enormous equine statuary of Civil War Confederate generals and a statue of tennis icon Arthur Ashe. Development of the Fan district was strongly influenced by the City Beautiful movement of the late 19th century.
Rose Garden is primarily characterized by historic residences, but it is also home to several cultural institutions, including the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden and Rosicrucian Park, which includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.
At ten stories, it once was the tallest hotel in the San Jose central business district, prior to the construction of Hilton, Fairmont, and Marriott hotels. The history of San Jose, California, the third largest city in the state, and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, with a population of 1,, The tower rises feet 87 m above the plaza, making it the second tallest building in San Jose.
Historicism or historism comprises artistic styles that draw their inspiration from recreating historic styles or imitating the work of historic artisans. This is especially prevalent in architecture, such as Revival architecture. Through a combination of different styles or implementation of new elements, historicism can create completely different aesthetics than former styles. Thus, it offers a great variety of possible designs.
Monterey Colonial is an architectural style developed in Alta California. Although usually categorized as a sub-style of Spanish Colonial style, the Monterey style is native to the post-colonial Mexican era of Alta California.
Creators of the Monterey style were mostly recent immigrants from New England states of the US, who brought familiar vernacular building styles and methods with them to California. Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era. G, from 6th to 9th Street, and Ave. H from 7th to 9th, in Fort Madison, Iowa.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Its boundaries were changed in , and it was increased in to include a Moderne architecture building at Main Street. The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commercial and public buildings represent a period of economic and political growth.
Buildings such as the Knox-Goodrich Building at 34 South First Street, with its extreme rustication, reflect the qualities of the wealthy, orchard oriented, agricultural community of the turn-of-the-century. The dominating building of the intersection is the Bank of America Building , San Jose's first "skyscraper," built by H. The bank was featured in Architect and Engineering Record of California as one of the first earthquake-proof constructions in the area.
The Bank of America has long been a "landmark" building, at 13 stories plus tower it locates the heart of downtown San Jose. Following the great earthquake of , Edwardian and Neo-Classical commercial buildings replaced the damaged Victorian and Romanesque businesses. Another significant building from this time period within the historic district is the Landmark Square built in at 87 South Second Street. This building and the streetscape of Santa Clara Boulevard between Third and Fourth streets represent excellent examples of the cleaner lines of the post-earthquake period design.
The one building which defies the new 20th-century style of commercial architecture is the de Saisset property located at Santa Clara and South Second streets. This three-story Italianate building was built in and although representative of styles common for the previous two decades, was termed to be the "New Century Block. Spanish Colonial Revival also provided California with a new historic architectural mode and the "El Paseo" shopping block on South First Street reflects the most popular commercial architecture of the s in California.
During the s, s and s, modernization and further consolidation characterized the downtown core. New Growth patterns to the west and south of the center of the city changed the commercial desirability of the downtown core area of San Jose.
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