Bernard Maybeck:

Community Hall for Brookings Oregon

1914-15

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Also see the brilliant renderings Octavianus Ludiro has done of this building as assignments in Nancy Chen's University of Oregon Architecture 524 class, with which Bill Buchanan has been helping: Oq's page

"the drawings of the greatest merit show a bold design in stock dimensioned lumber for the YMCA building or community hall. [Here Cardwell appears to err. The "Hall" (also labeled "Project 1") is the building he describes. The YMCA building has a different plan.] Completely detailed in working drawings, it consisted of a thirty-by-fifty-foot room spanned by a pair of modified "A-frame" trusses, finished in a combination of exposed sheathing and applied shakes; but Maybeck's records do not reveal if it was built."" - Kenneth Cardwell, "Bernard Maybeck"

The interior was specified to be exposed framing and planking, the exterior shingled.

This is the plan we are considering using for a Harbor Hills community hall.

The design appears to be a direct abcestor of the dramatic living room he created for his Ingalls House, built in San Francisco a year later. For more on the Ingalls House see Cardwell pages 174-5 and Woodbridge pages 150-157. The Woodbridge book includs spectacular color photos of the room, plate #s 147,149 and 150.

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