Luque's Decorating/Bell Cleaners/House of Jeans - Park Street Historic Commercial District - Alameda, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 45.972 W 122° 14.462
10S E 566847 N 4180146
This building is also known as the Powell Building.
Waymark Code: WMRNNG
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2016
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"The site of the Pacific Hotel with a frontage of 100 feet along Park Street is now occupied by three large stores in a rectangular one-story flat roofed building. Large panel signs above the store windows and a gold mesh tacked-on false front on the center store make this building with crenated parapet appear as several strip commercial stores. However, behind these cheap facades an elegant building front is completely intact. A continuous row of beautiful blue-and-rose-colored terra cotta tiles set in rose-colored mortar (photo #7-7) frames at the sides of the building and traverses it at a height of about 12 feet. Horizontally elongated black marble crosses provide simple ornament to the facade. Of the storefronts, two entries have been remodelled in old brick not entirely compatible with the building while the third, Luque's, retains its setback entry finished in black 5" x 5" tile with a yellow stripe and several larger yellow accent tiles with cut-out geometric design." (
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