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7.A. - Page 37 of 66 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation for 970 Edgewood Road In 1948 she opened her own landscape architecture practice and designed for schools, office parks, and private residences. Beginning in 1952 she taught part-time at the University of California in Berkeley, and in 1963 she became part of a design team that designed the landscape for the Oakland Museum of California. She later maintained and restored its gardens. She retired in 1968. Her papers are at the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley. The Second Bay Area Tradition The late architectural historian David Gebhard, author and a professor of architectural history at the University of California in Santa Barbara, defined the Second Bay Area Tradition in an essay for the book Bay Area Houses, edited by Sally Woodbridge. In this essay he finds a continuity of feeling in certain strands of Bay Area residential architecture from the 1890s through the 1960s. This feeling was mainly woodsy, but also included some stucco houses. In general, these houses emphasized continuous materials and a natural feeling instead of ornament and formality. The suburban and semi -rural examples also related strongly to their surroundings, especially nature. The first phase of the Bay Area Tradition included the Shingle style work of Willis Polk Ernest Coxhead, and slightly later houses by Bernard Maybeck, Julia Morgan, Louis Christian Mullgardt, Henry Gutterson, and John Hudson Thomas, among others. The shingled work of Albert Farr and Edgar Mathews could be included in this phase as well. The second phase of the tradition as defined by Gebhard had a wider period and included domestic architecture of more varying styles. Earlier houses of the 1920s included playful and evocative houses by W. R. Yelland, Gutterson, Thomas, and Carr Jones. In the 1930s the phase included plainer wooden houses of William Wurster and Gardner Dailey, among others. From the late 1930s through the early 1960s this phase included more clearly modern houses by Wurster, Dailey, Henry Hill, Joseph Esherick, Charles W. Callister, and others. This second phase was so wide and diverse that it might have been better to divide it into two groups, that of the 1920s and that of the late 1930s -early 1960s. Edwin Wadsworth was not listed by Gebhard as a contributor to this second phase of the Bat Area Tradition, but the subject house has strong similarities to the late houses of the second phase. A 1940 house in Woodside by Gardner Dailey with very broad eaves, vertical wooden siding, and a large window is very close in spirit to the subject house. So are a 1949 house in Woodside by Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons and a 1950 house in Kentfield by Esherick and Esherick. 12 479