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City of San Diego Historic Site No. 1247, Charles and Elizabeth Henderson House

The Charles and Elizabeth Henderson House is significant under HRB Criterion C as an excellent example of Tudor Revival domestic architecture. The style became popular in the late 19th century and continued through the 1940’s. In truth, the style does not pull only from Tudor architecture but became an amalgam of various English periods and styles […]

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Seen Around Town: Razor Blade Bank Slot

Have you ever seen a horizontal slot in a bathroom wall or the back of a medicine cabinet and wondered what use such a strange design feature could possibly have? It turns out that these small slots date to the early- to mid-20th century, when razors didn’t come with snap-on heads but rather with replaceable […]

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Style 101: Mid-century Ranch

The Ranch style originated in southern California in the mid-1930s. In the 1940s, the Ranch was one of the small house types financed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), along with Minimal Traditional and other small house styles. The Ranch house began to pick up popularity as the financial controls that encouraged small house building […]

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