Panoramic Hill Walk Itinerary     July 11, 2017

U C Stadium, 1923 - had dramatic effect on neighborhood, straddles Hayward Fault

Canyon Road: the lower end of the old road up Strawberry Creek valley
 
9 & 11 Panoramic Way: Price Apartments (Julia Morgan, 1912)
 Commissioned by professor of Latin; each of 4 apartments has own maid's quarters

#23: Boke House (Maybeck, 1901, "Swiss chalet"); George Boke was law prof, reformer

1 Orchard Lane: Walter Steilberg House (1922); he designed many houses on hill
 
4 Mosswood Lane: Steilberg Fabricrete Cottage (1930)
 Designed after 1923 fire, uses little wood; note mini-spiral staircase, breakfast alcove
  
View of stadium to left

13 Mosswood Road: Bell-Feldman House (FLW, 1939 & 1974); hexagonal plan
 
21 Mosswood Road: Mouser House (1888, moved and altered 1910)

29 Mosswood Road: Parsons House (W Steilberg, 1921); had many artistic guests, lodgers:
 Wm. Keith, Ansel Adams, Pr. B H Lehman, author of 1925 novel "Wild Marriage"

37 Mosswood Road: Allen House (Walter Ratcliff, 1911)

Arden Steps (100 of them), used on return trip down hill.  

At end of Mosswood, look down on canyon as it was.

11 Mosswood: WL Jepson House (J Morgan, 1925 & 1930); was professor of botany at UCB,
  interested in Steilberg's daughter, struck out
  
Dangerous curve here; stay to edge of road by Straight Stair

Up Orchard Lane; many steps (161) but several landings to pause at

70 Arden Road (named for Will's forest): Gardner Cottage over garage (W Wurster, 1941)

255 Panoramic Way: Havens House (1941) built for Shattuck heir; hard to see from road, alas

Up Arden Path; watch your step
 
#280: Frank La Fontaine House (~1906)  "the old Frenchman" built one of earliest homes on hill.  Tennis court, sprinklers, fire hoses added in 1930's

#299:  Miss M. Hodgen's House (Elizabeth Austin, 1926); recording studio in basement
 
Up to connector, sundial, Oakland. Then down the Arden Steps to Mosswood and return.
Watch for traffic at hairpin.