Wharton Esherick House  

Thanks !
Recommended: view as Slideshow.
How did that garage door operate -- sliding panels ? Or is that a separate passage door that's open ?

SDR
Good question. I believe the garage doors originally opened up similar to a barn (double doors) and/or by folding panels. I could be wrong about that though. The original garage door is now a stationary wall and the door on the side serves as the entrance into the museum reception / shop.

Esherick was a visionary.
I don't think I've ever seen anything he made that I didn't like. The man understood wood and the nature and essence of craft.
You're lucky, Woody. Thanks for sharing.

Divine!
Why, I'm simply beside myself. Thanks Woody.

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http://www.woodworkingonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/IMG0104esher...

Looks like
it was a lovely spring day -- and the property seems immaculate.
Too bad no interior photos. I saw the interior stair erected temporarily at the Craft Museum in NY, in the 'fifies (?).
One of these photos shows it signed and dated -- 1930.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pd2SCRHLC7Y/TWF--bO71GI/AAAAAAAAAro/0CMYpeO4zS...

here's an interactive interior
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http://www.whartonesherickmuseum.org/flash/esherick-diningFS.swf

And
A link to the 2011 Woodworking Competition.
http://www.whartonesherickmuseum.org/competition.html

Oh my goodness
I have a new hero...!

Oh, yeah !
Extremely strange and interesting stuff -- the essence of "organic" ?
His nephew was esteemed San Francisco architect Joseph Esherick -- Esherick, Homsey, Dodge, and Davis