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Pelton's Cheap Dwellings - FoundSF

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Note: This is an excerpt from a revised and excerpted version of a document prepared in support of the application by the Dogpatch neighbors to receive historical district status. One of the clusters of Pelton cottages, this on Tennessee Street, in Dogpatch. Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2012 Finally, Dogpatch is significant under Criterion C as containing the largest concentration of dwellings based upon the architectural patterns of local architect John Cotter Pelton, Jr. The future architect was born on July 24, 1856 in San Francisco, the second child born to John and Amanda Pelton, prominent San Francisco pioneers.[66] In 1875 Pelton, Jr. began working as a draftsman in the offices of Wright & Saunders, a large and well-connected firm that designed and built some of San Francisco’s most substantial warehouses, factories and office buildings.[67] Pelton, like most other Victorian-era California architects did not receive academic architectural training, but instead learned his profession a

Historical Essay by Christopher VerPlanck Note: This is an excerpt from a revised and excerpted version of a document prepared in support of the application by the Dogpatch neighbors to receive historical district status. One of the clusters of Pelton cottages, this on Tennessee Street, in Dogpatch. Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2012 Finally, Dogpatch is significant under Criterion C as containing the largest concentration of dwellings based upon the architectural patterns of local architect John Cotter Pelton, Jr. The future architect was born on July 24, 1856 in San Francisco, the second…

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