Preservation Award for Holgate House Restoration & Addition

tl; dr: unlike others on our block whom I could name, we did not just attach a large cubic box to the back of a bungalow.

Preservation Awards :: Residential :: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association

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This steep-roof shingle house was built in 1898 in what was then a semi-rural part of south Berkeley in the Elmwood. The house had three original bedrooms (and one later bath), a living room, parlor, dining room, kitchen, with a day-light basement and a usable attic. Thirty-some years ago a two-story rear addition was built that included a new main floor family room and bath and a raiscd deck, along with an upper roof deck off of the master bcdroom.

The roof deck and main floor deck additions were not in keeping with the elegant and simple steep-slope shingle architecture of the original home.

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Holgate House, 1898

2828 Webster Street
Exterior Restoration and Addition

Owners: Ann Marie Marciarille & Brad DeLong
Architect: Jarvis Archtects, Inc., Robin Pennell
Landscape Designer: Jarvis Architects. Inc. Cindy Chan, Architect
Structural Engineer: Van Maren & Associates. Peter Van Maren
S.E. Contractor. Mellor Remodeling, Chris Mellor

Photo Anthony Bruce, 2020

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The restoration and addition included a new appropriately-sized bedroom and study addition to the upper-floor master bedroom while utilizing the existing small bedroom as dressing and closet areas. The master bedroom addition is built with a pair of matching steep-slope roofs with shed dormers flanking a low-slope ‘eyebrow’ roof with a rounded-recessed bay window, all in character with the unique and playful bay windows, and eave and dormer details, found on the original elevations of the house.

The project included structural strengthening of the building as well as upgraded energy assemblies. The new bedroom and study space incorporates the awkward upper floor deck area into the architecture of the original building.