Alameda County Building and Loan Association Building - Oakland, CA
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N 37° 48.407 W 122° 16.366
10S E 564017 N 4184626
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Waymark Code: WMR2J8
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2016
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"The Alameda County Building and Loan Association Building is a five-story-over-basement, residential-over-commercial building located at 1601-1605 Clay Street, at the northwest corner of Clay Street and 16th Street in downtown Oakland, Alameda County, California. Designed by Harry Cunningham and Matthew Politeo in a hybrid architectural style combining Beaux-Arts and Art Nouveau elements and completed in 1907, the partially steel-framed building has a rectangular plan and is clad in stucco and brick, with a parapet and flat roof. The equally prominent Clay Street and 16th Street façades are clad in stucco and have a tripartite design separated by belt courses. The ground level contains non-original glazed storefronts with granite bulkhead, separated by stucco-clad piers. The second, third, and fourth stories feature prominent angled bays clad in pressed sheet metal and crowned by sheet metal cartouches. The fifth, uppermost story terminates in an elaborate sheet metal cornice assembly carried by overscaled Art Nouveau-styled brackets. Although the ground-level storefront and the interior spatial arrangement have been altered over time, the upper stories of the Clay Street and 16th Street façades retain decorative features that date to the building’s construction and define its character as a richly appointed commercial and residential building constructed during the early twentieth century. The building retains overall integrity." (
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