Front (South) Elevation Detail
Leonard C. Hammond House in San Francisco, California

William F. Knowles designed this Shingle Style house built around 1908 on a long, shallow site with a steep grade.  The stepped window probably reflects the presence of an interior stair beyond.  This was a more conservative approach to expressing the interior space on the outside than the stepped balcony on Ernest Coxhead's Weber House, which was only a few houses up the hill.  The two men were friends.  Knowles father had been the contractor on some of Coxhead's projects.  The design of this entrance bay suggests the influence that the older Coxhead must have had on the younger man.  A more detailed view of the unusual front door follows this image.  Old San Francisco city directories point toward Hammond, whose family was in the lumber business, as the original owner.  Photograph taken in 2001 by Howard J. Partridge.

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