CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION BULLETIN
NUMBER 69 FALL 2000/WINTER 2001 Sanford’s graceful Inspiration in Circulation and Catalog Room in the Library and Courts Building.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Issue Number 69 is thefi nal number of a special three-part series de signed to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the California State Library. This issue focuses on the locations of the Library since its founding and the magnificent Library and Courts Build ing on Capitol Mall in Sacramento. The Foun dation expresses its appreciation to former State Librarian Gary E. Strong for his contri bution of $1,000 toward the production costs of this issue. Mr. Strong started the Bulletin in 1982 and continues his generous support of the Foundation. In addition, the editors are grateful to architectural photographer Kathy Kelly for permission to reproduce her gorgeous views of the Library and Courts I and II Buildings. Sanford’s Wisdom in the Circulation and Catalog Room in the Library and Courts Building. California State Library Foundation BULLETIN NUMBER 69 FALL 2000/WINTER 2001
Editor TABLE OF CONTENTS GARY F. KURUTZ Associate Editor VICKIE J. LOCKHART Copy Editor California State Library PATRICIA MORRIS Changing and Expanding Sites 1 Board of Directors GEORGE BASYE President SUE T. NOACK Vice-President State Library 1911 7 KENNETH B. NOACK, JR. Treasurer BARBARA CAMPBELL Secretary The Capitol Extension Group with a JAMES DAY ALLAN FORBES Focus on the Library and Courts Building 12 DR. ROBERT GORDON J.S. HOLLIDAY HERBERT HUNN MEAD B. KIBBEY VIRGINIA LIVINGSTON History on the Walls: The Maynard Dixon THEODORE MERIAM, EMER]TUS DIANE MULLER and Frank Van Sloun Murals CECILIA NOTT 28 MARILYN SNIDER in the California State Library GARY E. STRONG, EMERITUS DR. KEVIN STARR State Librarian GARY F. KURUTZ Clothed in Burnt Earth: Gladding, McBean Executive Director JULIA SCHAW and the Library and Courts Building Administrative Assistant and the Jesse Unruh Building 33 The California State Library Foun dation Bulletin is published quar terly in Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall ©2001, California State Foundation Notes 41 Library Foundation, 1225 - 8th Street, Suite 345, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 447-6331. Opinions of the authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opin ions of their institutions, the Cali Recent Contributors 42 fornia State Library, or the Foun dation. The Bulletin is included as a mem Front cover: Library and Courts Building, 2001. Photograph by Kathy bership benefit to Foundation Kellye. Back members and those individuals cover: Library and Courts II Building, 2001. Photograph by contributing £40.00 or more an Kathy Kellyc. nuallv to Foundation Programs. Membership rates are 840-99 As sociate; 8100-249 Contributor; Photo Credits 8250-499 Sponsor; 8500-999 Pa tron; 8500 Institutional; $750 California State Library 1, 3-5, 7-10, 12, 15-17, 19, Corporate; $1,000 Lifetime Mem ber; S5,000Pioneer. Subscription 24-26, 28-29, 31, 34-39 to Libraries — 830.00/year. Kathy Kelly Inside front cover, inside back cover, 6, 20-23 Recipient of the 1988 H.W. Wilson Periodical Award. ISSN 0741-0344 The Bulletin is indexed in Library Literature. CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY CHANGING AND EXPANDING SITES
By VICKIE J. LOCKHART
The California State Library—older than the spectfully beg leave by the presentation of state itself—began with several gifts of these books to contribute my mite towards books and an appropriation for a bookshelf. the accomplishment of so desirable an ob On December 22, 1849, ten months before ject.” California was admitted to the Union, Colo His gift included a copy of the Natural nel J. D. Stevenson presented books to the History of the State of New York and copies of first Legislature in San Jose to establish a reports on the common schools and agricul State Library. In his letter to the president of ture of New York. Two days later, State the Senate, Colonel Stevenson wrote, “Feel Senator Thomas Jefferson Green represent ing an anxious desire for the promotion of ing Sacramento donated additional titles. education and the establishment of a State On December 28, 1849 the Senate appropri
Library at the Capitol of the State . . . I re ated funds to purchase a bookcase for these gifts to be placed in the Senate chambers, and designated the Secretary of State to act Vickie J. Lockhart is a Visual Resource Librarian in the California History Section of the California State as ex officio State Librarian. Library and Associate Editor of the Bulletin. Less than a month later on January 19,
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making work it more and more difficult for the library tion stages. State Librarian James L. Gillis and other departments to function properly died of a heart attack in 1914, and his able there. The California Supreme Court had successor was Milton J. Ferguson. It is in been holding its sessions in San Francisco dicative of the status quo that most of the since 1878. By the 1910s there were eighteen meetings were held in San Francisco. Pres state departments located in San Fran ently, it is inconceivable that the State Ar cisco—more than in Sacramento. Two de chitect served as the general contractor for partments in Sacramento were housed in the buildings. But according to his own rental units. Consequently, there was a statement, by this arrangement about eight strong movement afoot to designate San percent of the total building cost was cut. Francisco as the Capital City. Unfortunately, clear title to the land pur To counteract San Francisco’s proposals, chased by Sacramento in 1913 was not se the people of Sacramento voted approval in cured until 1917. Sacramento schools were 1913 of $700,000 in bonds with which to dismissed on October 12, 1917 to celebrate. purchase two blocks west of Capitol Park to After a colorful parade, the town’s children, donate to the State for building expansion. each carrying a flag, surrounded the two As late as 1917, all the properties surround square blocks for a formal deed presenta ing Capitol Park were privately owned, tion to the Governor. A distinctive feature of framed dwellings. Considered to be an im the occasion was that the event was re portant factor in the bond approval was the corded on motion pictures. newly acquired woman’s vote. Encouraging But meanwhile, the City & County of San “wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, and Francisco had forged ahead, exchanging a sweethearts” to vote, they were assured block of its land at the Civic Center for state “Out of deference to the women, the men owned land. A state building in San Fran officers will refrain from smoking in most of cisco was completed in 1916. As a conse the polling places.” quence, the Supreme Court became more In 1914 a State Bond Act was passed ap deeply entrenched in the City. propriating funds to build two new build After the Sacramento land was secured, a ings on the land in Sacramento. It was pub nationwide architectural competition for de licly acknowledged that “the life of the sign of two buildings was initiated. Com State Capitol in Sacramento” hung upon the peting with sixty-four entries, Weeks & Day outcome of the bond approval. The State Li of San Francisco won the award. Charles brary was to occupy four floors and the Su Peter Weeks, a master of classical architec preme Court and District Court of Appeal ture, is also noted for designing the Mark were to share the top floor of one building; Hopkins Hotel and the Chronicle Building all of the scattered state departments, most in San Francisco. (Weeks is often confused of which were in San Francisco, were to be with William Henry Weeks, a contemporary efficiently consolidated in the second build identified principally with school architec ing. Both buildings would be conveniently ture.) adjacent to the Capitol. Weeks’ partner, William P. Day, was an The Sacramento State Buildings Commis engineer, who later became well known as sion was appointed consisting of the Gover the Director of Works for the 1939 World’s nor, the presiding Chief Justice of the Cali Fair on Treasure Island. Two permanent fornia Supreme Court, the chairman of the buildings designed by Day and George W. State Board of Control, the State Librarian, Kelham still exist on Treasure Island. Day the State Architect and the superintendent died in 1966. of the Capitol Building. The latter two—ar Weeks & Day signed their contract for chitect George B. McDougall and superin two buildings on November 30, 1918, three tendent George G. Radcliff—served weeks after the Armistice of World War I. throughout all the planning and construc The prime issue to be thrashed out during —13—
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statues
had
entries.
inscrip
THE
plaques
classic
them
& the addi
poem. to
vesti
twenty
ap
been
with
ap
as
In
—17—
pearance
tion was
had unfinished had
fund. Legislature’s
between tion,
Works, The ing
the the
the sion,
they an heating,
been improvement.
Even
The
integral
that Capitol. California risen stone.
in two to
latter
but
were
handed
In
prohibited
place, be
appropriation
before
and
buildings the 1925,
W. of
immediately
some
to
secured
refused
wood actually
being
part
Ray
F. $4 body
The
$300,000 the
down
the
the
McClure,
Supreme
electrical million.
Landscaping
L.
of
total question
as
surfaces
chiseled,
first Governor
of from
to
being
Reilly,
the
connected.
a
in
the
pay
was
part
cost a funding
story
1926,
Capitol
In a
controversy
Court.
Director
Act
work,
constructed
state
the
State
treated, for was
order
of
of
are
approved
granite
declared referred proposals
the bills
the
three
emergency
referred
appropria cast
Their as and
Controller.
to
architec
of
buildings
much
contend $5,000
have
items: of
grounds
Public
facing
arose
were deci
only
that
imita.
the
had
to
as
the
to
if
ment
San flow,
overcrowding had
housed
were
reaucracy
ture
ancy. the
was
had
the
they
the
costs
from it
when
the
money
ted heat boiler
and
through
from
patible
unfinished
pliment.
be
nearly
of
of
borders
residences Many
transplanted
effect.”
ground”
ter
concrete
the Weeks,
tural
A
In
was
Another
The
the
the
appalled
numerous
buildings
intervening
Francisco.
Capitol
most $1,250,000
to
action
doubled.
often
Building
landscaping.
Library
the
were
and the
refusal created.
Over
eleven
continued
the
competition.
the
be
room
decided
high
buildings
shrubs
old
obliterated
was
in
landscape.
State
The
initial
of
which
other
By
startling
concept
some
fountain,
rented was
bonds
expanded
referred
the
not
was
trees
the
state
were
the
and
Extension
cost
not
in
to
of
the
&
total
at
Twenty because
were
to
Gardner
Office
of
departments
and
$53,000.
truly
Temporarily,
intervening
two
“to
stage,
Courts
the
thirteen established
to
the
how to
departments
to
sixteen
available
untenable,
to
existing
bond
fall harmonize
of
the
were
in
they removed.
Its
of
increase
be
cost
carry
climax
complete
trees
to
creep
the
Office
California
buildings:
a
costing Without
occupied
Sacramento
finished
of
the
and
Capitol extensive,
Building,
feature
the
heating
Office
as
departments
were
this
sold. passed
Buildings.”
Building.
of
architectural
William
Large
1925,
years
levels.
he
the
uncontrolled
steam
from
upward. principal
new
“improving
until
Building
was
was
the
years,
Vortriede
planted Capitol
$5,000,
stood
anticipating
intended
At
in
with
State
Building
consulting
and
was
was
remained
until
the
in
fan
system
the
Supreme
in
departments
the
the
the
1928,
but
library
Meanwhile,
from
this
mid-1927
large
the
Vortriede
for mid-1928,
buildings,
1926
equip
palms
the
relieved.
a
total
Agricul
in
state
Capitol
Although
former
last
1929.
But
spaces
“artistic
whose
were
to
largest
simple,
Park.
interval,
the
have
beauty
the
the
a
tunnels
arose curb
would
to
No.
the
allot
also
growth
stacks
com
mo
that
cost
in
bu
over
were
com
In
ten
now
did
wa
1 of
— 18
—
Waste.
down
Day judges
sider
fifth
preme
bench
made
a
Commissioners
ments
fifth
the
Library
the
specified
Article
the
Thus,
decision
corded
tended
tended
few
mento
H. Four
and
emphasized
fifth
Over
Court
curve.
Then
But
State
Beatty,
capitol. Constitutional
and
floor
floor.
be
mento.
the contributions
brary
Chief
additional
further
for William
in
the
present
in
It
a that
floor
very
to
successive
the
the
in the
for
His
Court
same
dramatic
to
was
2,
on State
San
all
retained
his
at
&
meetings,
And
hang
it
court
McDougall
full
the
Attorney
of
that
since
Section occupy
decision
court
California years,
a
Courts
the
In
December
in
opinionated
probability
Justice’s
heavily.
Frank
of
and
first
The
courtroom
the
Francisco
tremendous
as
agreed,
courtroom
Buildings
suite
Room.”
practice
the
in
the
the
H.
the
State
purple
meeting:
on
in the
Courts
was
concluded consensus
office
May
released
meeting
ultimatum
Waste—served
cost
for
Supreme
fifth
following
Sacramento
M.
Library
its
852,
Building
its
the
voted
of
Mandate
General’s
until
did
Supreme
He
officers
chambers
the
hurriedly
almost
therefore,
Angellotti, assigned
Supreme
visits
1917,
offices
analysis
12,
drapes
in
San
floor
adjoining
it
Political
continue
brusquely
not
Building.
and
Commission.
declarations
should
exclusive
Judge
will
holding
impact
amiably,
1927,
space on
&
Francisco
Court
of
that to
a
alter
was
November,
extravaganza.
offices
from and
ready
Courts
June
prepared
(Chapter
decision
not
Court
Office.
“back
opinion
State
Sacra
repeatedly
quarters
and
Court
met
when
Waste
that
Code)
in
be
the
assigned
its
on
was
Lucien
arrange
should
offices
need
Justices—W.
It court
Judge
11,
declared
and
the
use
for
placed
one
on
Li
was
to judges’
will
the
of
Building.
the
Su
came
defied
re
the
1926.
They
at
was
use,
VII,
State
con
which
the
the
of
made
the Sacra
on
be
Shaw,
to
had
on
in the
A at
been
were present was was
lems worthwhile
and of
The for
shape. converting contrast
special fused floor that
ordered
as scant
court.”
On
arrangement,
a
the
redecorating
solution
functional
absolute
courtroom.” the
which
“intended
to
corrected
January
attention
the Weeks’
Courtroom
former
library
Since
day
be
justices
Weeks
to
regal
the
other
the
had
when
judges
to
Waste
duplication,
17,
design
Assembly
meetings.”
“attic,”
square
before
and
to
“to
splendors
the
for
preceding
been size,
on
rooms
The
the
1928,
the
one
devise
regarding
public Commissioners’
the
purposefully
considered
ceiling
etc.
Assembly
noted
quarters
appears
applying
room
hears he
first
the
in
Room
Acoustical
vehemently
of
even
The
suitable
usage both
floor
him
Commissioners
in
to
the
by
the
its
to
simple
for
the an
of
had
the
down
buildings.
the .
placing
Room
praise
fifth
and
excellence be
. plain
the octagonal
.
the
room
treatment
fifth
for
panels
very
“paid
edit prob
Library
for
floor.
to room
re
had
in use of —
and 19 Courts
—
judges’
tion, except book
per room
new
vent than to
on corridors sponded Ferguson floor lem.
the simile
acoustic
offices ously,
It
The become
Building.
the
judges
reporters
was
courtroom
the
library
the
were
stacks.
was
drapes
costs
courtroom
ground
for
around
usage
felt
personal
several
frictions,
that
across
refused
repeated
its
secondary
exorbitant.
could
involved
employees
beneath
Smarting,
domed
caught
he
also
as
level.
the
from
the
weeks
did
“public
gain
and
to
impasse,
and
helped
perimeter
in
bases
allow
The not
a
their
ceiling.
their
in
to
private the
But
each
hint
cost
the
before
access
creating
a
consider
access.”
fifth
numerous
to
question
of
expense
surfaces.
offices.
anyone
Chief
Weeks
involved
of precise
solve
the
of
access
the floor
the
through
the
light
the
Justice
To
revolu
the
newspa
Librarian
created
the
other
seemed
detail,
of
first
court
Obvi
circum
plush
fac
to
in
how
wells
prob
the
the
this re
Lamp
in
the Memorial
______
Vestibule. Decorative
— 20
—
urn
in
the
Memorial Vestibule. I __ Exterior
the
Left
side
view
of
ceiling.
the
of
the
Dixon
Library
mural
and
in
Gillis Courts
Hall.
Building.
—21
Note —
the
decorative
terra
cotta
star
bursts
in
Right
State
_
side
Librarian’s
of
the
*
z;11JL?
Dixon
office,
mural
2001.
i4
in
Gillis
-
Hall.
___ 22
—
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!
1 i I
A view of the newly acquired Dixon mural installed on the second floor of the Library and Courts Building last year.
— 23 — ridiculous folly. They exposed the “itiner ficult to reproduce was the decorative dome ant” Supreme Court, telling how it would ceiling of the fifth floor room. Even in its only “visit” the expensive quarters six days beauty, the first floor flat ceiling is hardly each year. comparable. The replicas of the bronze To divert “heat” from Supreme Court Jus chandelier, the numerous bronze wall lights, tice Waste, the State Director of Finance and the standing floor lamps are in use yet Alexander R. Heron shouldered the respon in the courtroom. Those in the fifth floor sibility for the change, claiming it had been were removed in 1957. Now only the wall protested by Waste. One can still plainly see brackets remain. No one knows who ac today that Heron’s statement was errone quired them, or where they may be hanging ous: “The woodwork and other expensive toady. installations upon the fifth floor will be Also in 1957 the dome ceiling in the fifth used practically in their entirety in the first floor courtroom, by then designated as the floor courtroom.” The only items removed State Education Department Board, was from the fifth floor in 1928 were the judges’ modified with a flat ceiling of acoustic tile bench, the chairs, the drapes behind the and fluorescent lighting units in an alumi bench, the railings separating the public num grid suspended by wire. (A similar de from the attorney’s arena, and the public vice was utilized to lower the ceiling when seating. Extant photographs confirm the el converting the art gallery on the fifth floor egance and the finished detail of the fifth into multiple offices. In this situation an at floor courtroom after its purpose had been tractive clerestory, which provided north altered. One can readily compare the rooms and south light, was closed off.) Only minor today. The structural feature which was dif damage was caused to the existing dome
The original courtroom on the fifth floor, used by the Department of Education 1930-1950s. —24— ceiling. highlight colorful
the intrusion pioneers
The shaped,
secretary Howe sible
Sutter, ist Heinsbergen Angeles,
ings. rate
sion 1928,
from
Also
There
was
cast
colors
the
to for
Since
the
the
Bancroft,
intact
and At
one
move rosettes seal
Loan lower
exterior
the
were in
of accents
who is
court
portraits
the
are
Bret each the
thought
of electrical
of
representative
desk
are Decorating
the
top
bid several
fresh flat
the
the
contract
upheaval.
William were
Harte.
corner
and four
in
in
court
there
$48,000 employees portion
State
were
the
gold
and
to
interior
cables. removed
portraits
significant
Public
have
One
to
of
still
was
of
bright.
done Keith,
leaf. Company
Obviously,
the to the
of
California
choice
assumes
exists
been
Catalog
dated
paint
the
of
of
Only
first octagonal- after
of to
Captain
Ferguson’s
both
the
ceiling.
side
permit respon California
of
a
floor. April and
of
the a
Room,
huge,
Hubert
the
build few
the
with
effects Los
deci deco
John
art
the
showing of —
25
Sanford’s
eled change
had privacy
bined first fices,
To
first moved
were
This Weeks
Court tension pleted
Weeks and
lamps” lighting —
And,
In
secure
on
offices floor
floor,
cooperation
occurred
addition
the
less
with
fiasco.
Inspiration
in vacated
after the
also to
it and
Buildings
in
fixtures,
museum
San
had accessible offices was
the
the
the first
the
on
was
pleasing
years
He
second
Francisco
blind
a to
on abandoned,
the
vestibule,
art
a
floor.
at
role
the
along
the
with died
series
the
such
the
were on fifth of
gallery
readers’
for
designer
in
structural
his
vistas
right.
heels floor
the To
just
state
as the
the
floor
of
its
finally
on
make ingenuity,
the
east
the
on beautifully
as
and
patrons. into west
sudden
of March
than
bureaucracy.
facilities with torch
the the
hanging
of
the
side
room
to
design, it
rooms
side
the
could
fifth
Capitol was
be Supreme
far
25,
light of
death
patience,
exquisite
for com
of
the more
pan were 1928. com
floor.
which
“oil
be
the
stan-
of
Ex
of
I -- -l
dards in the Memorial Vestibule, and the in tricate, huge chandelier with its charming, observant snake acting as host over the loan desk. The bronze directories in both build ings were Weeks’ design. He was also re sponsible for the appropriate, sturdy furni ture which repeated the building’s architectural motifs. In May 1927, Weeks was directed to se cure “two or three statuettes” to decorate the Catalogue Room. He immediately con tacted his friend Sanford, who enthusiasti cally responded. The decision to use only two figures, one in each window, was reached primarily because of the limitation of cost. Sanford was paid $15,000 and an additional $650 to supervise the placement of the bronzes. Since the light wells have been closed, few are as sensitive to the beauty of the bronze framed, leaded windows behind each statue. Nor does one realize the doors beneath them led unto balconies in the light wells. With all the windows of the halls of the upper floors blocked in, one can no longer see the backs of the statues or view Bronze gate entrance to the Public Catalog Room them from different angles. Framed by the and loan desk, 1929. ornate windows, the natural light more ef fectively silhouetted the statues than does 1927. For the mural in Gillis Hall, there the present, artificial lighting. were only two bids. Maynard Dixon asked Sanford’s Inspiration and Wisdom drew $9,500 and Albert Herter wanted $35,000. little local comment until a New York sensa The award was announced in February 1928. tionalist newspaper attacked a replica of the Dixon’s is a masterpiece showing an undraped female figure. Even then, only a array of converging peoples who created few Californians contributed some puritani California’s distinctive culture. He frankly cal protests. But the estimated attendance to admitted to slight historical inaccuracies. It the Catalogue Room suddenly quadrupled. was concluded that the painting should be One observer concluded that many had applied directly on the wall, and an addi never been inside the library before and tional $1,500 was paid to cover the “cost of execution in only came to get a “peep.” Another won place.” Now-famous Western dered why “Wisdom—a whiskered gentle artist Dixon did not start to execute the 70 x man wearing nothing at all, but decently 14 foot mural until July after the library was holding his bath towel, while trotting along functioning, but he found it an interesting as if in a rapid getaway—did not receive experience. He felt as though he was one of some censure too.” the construction workers and liked the feel The question of sufficient funding sus ing of craftsmanship involved. pended any decisions about the interior fin Then, people were constantly com ishing until the last moment. Specifications ing and going, looking, and com for bids for murals in the Library & Courts menting—carpenters, plasterers, Building were not released until November visitors. They asked questions and
— 26 — morial Van $8,000
martial
when So building
the
closing reminiscent the
were that stacks,
it It
tors
changes were buildings.
and the quarried of largest ported Three reopening
closed buildings, aggregate ored
act The
Originally,
too was little
At
There as thing public never on Spezia. Mark got something Sloun
Memorial no
were
of gold
to he
least
was I library used Vestibule. difficult
mural marble
then
scenes
hours, and worked artists a
notice
modernization
artificial
be for
to order
that hung
which
new I
Hopkins are done
on executed
marble replaced. out
the
knew
the twelve heated.
The The
extensively
marble years.
of all beautiful of so
he it art, the excellent staff
in bid feeling molding
of was for so lowest. the the
those very U.S.A., to Vestibule. cold the
before. was
$85,000 most I caused
was
Frank his heat I
the Isle
graceful answered something
work
for this
for
quarry six-foot was different
found
radiators Hotel,
given But
floors
twelve
healthy. that planned
This
San
in
Catalogue most
of distinctive
the
for white the should
In
kind
and
Out terrazo, giving in Van Ferguson
and the throughout expensive there,
order
Tino,
the
Francisco
contrast
is it him my The sixteen
murals were throughout which 1954
bronze
annoyed. high
it panels
Peacock
difficult only of them. kinds of Sloun’s baseboards.
marble
librarians
I were
that
job, stimulated
be
Italy, marble so was in had
lectures it
marble
almost
installed. mosaic,
Room frieze
all used April is had one the
columns
demanded in
the
gates, to
of First
over-runs. removed. depicting
the
the studio.
in both I
bid
stairs,
Court the to
Dixon,
radia marble
of been
stacks was
the in
im the in
totally after single
1929 black found keep
and many of Me
An
the the
the
Bay
in
col of
—27——
Weeks covered Room.
and color light were bronzes tion
light well. poorly tution been stairs
in and question
of 1967. building washed phate colors in terns. pattern terned in
is are lize
A much crew’s 1967? with of Despite ment outstanding art few
The
the
the
replacing now a
the striking
to
the
the wells
mosaic so was usurped
The work in pillaged,
them
for and The The
are
was excellent fifth brilliantly lessening halls solution,
The disguised
to a and One possession
praised well
in various dramatic, ceilings
quality sensitivity only
codes the
large
upon eliminated the has remaining
the disappear. aware
the in state loan the
made
to of
architect’s floor
alterations,
change
cannot and
is
executed surfaces
the
center distinctive
been
eccentricities a
reproduce art. for
decorative
in Catalogue
leaving visible.
artistic
for
an
small desk
simulated painters
condition of forms.
causing throughout
the
of rooms
Library courtroom design behind for
cheap other
Did
curving
episode
all the of
“ruined
rreasureJ since
help was
of
blank presentation
in was the Six
with the portion
the
that mosaic the 1928
original
the only
Unfortunately,
functions. the
throughout the
copper-colored
produced borders and most but with claimed months loss
blinds.
they Room, &
light State moved borders
state of bronze
marble Catalogue
tn-sodium windows each which
halls in by elaborate Court two
bare
ceiling
the
question the contain
of
of
the true designed
of covered
fixtures age.”
Library.
paint
painters
light
buildings pattern
buildings
natural the
No
artwork and were the light and forward
the
of occurred
balustrades develop and In Building
stairway
when
accuracy
places
the
four- substi the
They
are original
addi
glorious decor colors
stair on pat colored
phos the bulbs
for spent pat
the
hay
They
by gilt.
boar
uti
th
t
too
are a ar
i
ii
the
bule
After reading
authorizing
mined
fice
lieved
Building
and construction Library
in mural
painters
couragement.
fice,
readable,
date braries,
drawn
cific tecture
on
gers
In
surfaced
Charles
EDITOR’S
also
accjuisition
on Smith Dixon
Holding Dreams:
the
written
Dixon. expert
the
the
their
Library,
with
State
labor
inside
subject
historical
of
Dixon.
Governor
Library
served
imposing
murals decoration
prosperous
to
from
history
of
in
room
and
on
(Northland
walls.
probed
(Peregrine
Mr.
across
art,
in
extensively
grace
Librarian clearly
P. movie
and
Sacramento,
The Ground:
___
California
HISTORY
the
In
America
California
funds
of as
matter, NOTE:
Weeks,
in
the
department
Hagerty
finished
specifically
on
Among
addition,
would
the
Art
the
events
1997.
hard
These
structure’s
through
the
Hiram
from
new American
the
understood theatres,
the
IN
Dixon
was
curator
Smith
for
and
1920s, Publications,
The
classically
AND
Donald
on
Milton
usually
the
and
work,
country’s is
third
transforming
Library
enhance
the
murals
in
inclusion
and
those
he
the
the
the
Life
THE
artists
Johnson
Art
posed
Anoakia
Books,
building’s
the
Western
late
for
made
stores
mural
State
a
career
author
I.
hotels,
California
themes
main
floor
experience.
of
and of
mural
Ferguson
ON
major
pictures
historical, Hagertij
interested
FRANK
1928.
embraced
Maynard
messages
Gary
were
and
possible
1998)
the designed
for
1999).
past
CALIFORNIA
Capitol
of
Murals
moral
into
art
signed
of
of art.
and
entrance.
Maynard
exhibitions
schools,
movement
occupancy
Desert
Courts
WALLS:
main
like
murals
Ernest
and
the
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tered
Electric
the
On
San
saved
City
project
1521.
1930s,
Lincoln
The
buildings,
cotta
into
March
1520,
to
Francisco
as
Group
buildings
Hall.
pottery
provide
the
In
Use
This
the
a
the
for
including
of
by
many
the
contract
plant
18,
State
Jesse
of
674
twenty-eight
the
contract
was
the
the
twin
1922,
terra
assigned
headquarters.
an
kept
Library
in
tons
respects,
of
company
typical
M.
pottery
estimated
with
San
a
Office
California
cotta
Gladding,
Unruh
file
coincided
of
a
careful
Francisco,
terra
it
the
and
of of
would
instead
the
story
Building
Job
in
memos the
State
Building.
Courts
746
the
cotta
(The
Capitol
Order
about
record
McBean
many
Los
with
receive
1920s.
tons
of
of
and
files
for
now
from
Ange
gran
Build
Cali
Num
the
jobs
Ex
of
For
of
Job
in en are part of the Library’s Gladding, McBean be easily seen and often go unnoticed.) Archive.) The work order for the Library Gladding, McBean’s artists also created the and Courts Building specified that it would graceful Ionic capitals for the portico pillars provide the facings above the second story and pilasters on the east and west sides, the belt course and “for the roof and ceiling of egg and dart and lamb’s tongue ornaments pediments and for register faces in the pub for the belt courses and cornices, and the lic catalog room [third floor] and memorial acroterion over the four second-story corner vestibule.” The job order further stated that windows of the Library and Courts Build it would use granitex (glaze number 10882) ing. One of the other uses of terra cotta was “same as Standard Oil Building.” This pres for the giant letters used for the inscriptions tigious contract challenged the pottery by on both buildings: “Into the Highlands of calling for massive fields of terra cotta. Un the Mind Let Me Go” (for the Library and like some of their other buildings, both 1520 Courts Building) and “Give Me Men to and 1521 stood alone without close neigh Match My Mountains” (for the Unruh bors and each five-story building would be Building). clad on all four sides with its granitex Once the company received the drawings ashlar. (In densely built cities, only two or from the architects, the plant swung into three sides were usually fully exposed.) production. First, draftsmen redrew the While Weeks and Day featured granite drawings according to “terra cotta construc and marble for most of the decorative ele tion.” This took into account that after fir ments, the pottery did have the opportunity ing in a kiln, terra cotta would shrink. As to provide more than just granitex blocks. well, the draftsmen specified how each The architects designed the buildings to block would be anchored to the building have a large second story portico under frame. Each piece received a unique identi neath massive pediments. The porticos in fying letter and number designation to indi cluded ceilings with a series of polychrome cate its exact location in the building. Fol terra cotta star bursts. (These beautiful blue lowing these new drawings, an artist, in and gold star bursts, unfortunately, because this case Pio Tognelli, would then create of their height and ceiling position cannot clay models of ornamental sections. Fre
Model of the acroterion for second-story corner windows.
— 35 —
blocks
train
workers was
glazed minor
beehive
Following
and molds,
and modelers
appropriate the
for
approved, was
a
quently,
drawing
detailed
approval
molds.
Drafting
then
dry,
laid
photographed
cars
imperfections
to
masonry
let
kiln
carefully
architects
the
out,
and
the
slowly
would
or
the
clay
the
plaster
Thereaftei
room,
glaze.
trucks
pieces
to
building
or
fitted
Tognelli
clay
cooling
model.
be
suggested
packed
cooled
press
Gladding,
loaded
molds
“burnt”
With
supplied
dry,
and
were
that
together,
corrected.
would
process,
site.
workers
terra
The
and
sent
for
transported
in
the
sent
were
the
McBean
changes.
tule
at
finished
several
then
glaze
cotta
only
to
inspected,
precious
translate
2300
for
made
each
the
Finally, removed
straw
applied
&
firing
a
clay
applied
degrees
architect
rough
Co.,
days.
Once
model
section
the
and
into
into
it
Lincoln,
in
and
the into
the a
—
36 California,
—
tween building
misunderstandings, fraught
lems,
would in
and completely Mortar letter
(a
iron
the
whole packed
for
and
The
Upon
real
place.
breakage
blocks
potentially
set
strap
Ca.
and
and
Capitol
client,
hazard car
eventually
and
1915.
with
in
and
arrival,
undertakings
It
delays.
number.
to
loads
place
were
was
covered
cement
inspected
attach
challenges,
or
architect,
Extension
during
fall
important
imperfections.
building
hoisted
according were
The
cause
Each
away
it
further
as
and
an to
rejected.
potential
the
any
of
and
onto
the
the
block
disagreements
unexpected
Group
earthquake).
contractors
this
from
terra
that
to
water
held
contractor
strap
building
scaffolding
the
scale
came
On
If
the
the
cotta
for
proved
the
accepted,
designated
leakage
to
occasion,
building
straps
errors, were
blocks
with
rust
prob
un
looking
frame.
was
be
that
be an p
Worker spraying glaze on terra cotta at the Lincoln plant. an ever present reality. The first problem one of McGilvray-Raymond’s derricks fell arose in coordinating the setting of the terra on the roof of the Unruh Building during cotta with the installation of the granite by the installation of the granite for the pedi the McGilvray-Raymond Granite Company ments and chipped or broke several pieces of Madera County. Delays in producing the of terra cotta. In the course of construction granite caused problems in Lincoln. By workers damaged several other pieces caus April 1923, the majority of the granitex has ing Gladding, McBean to either provide re been produced, but the contractors at the placements or patching material as late as site were months away from being ready to April 1926, even though the job had been receive the terra cotta. Delays required the completed in 1924. pottery to store the finished pieces at their While these problems may have been irri Lincoln yard. To further complicate the job, tating, a real bombshell exploded in the —37—
Building.
Decorative
devices
for
I.
the
Library
and Courts
—
38 Portrait
—
of
artisans
at
Cladding,
McBean
& Co. Graceful Ionic capitol. spring of 1925. Completion of the exterior of a small percentage of terra cotta Capitol Extension Group naturally drew at that matches the granite. The great tention from architectural circles, and the field of terra cotta is very much twin buildings received considerable praise darker and there are some pieces from the press and critics for effectively as dark as slate. One would have framing the Capitol. However, Gladding, thought after the experience you McBean came under fire from State Archi had with the American National tect George McDougall and Weeks and Day Bank and the Standard Oil Build for not matching the color of the granite, ing you would not have repeated and consequently, ruining the proportions your mistake in this building. The of both buildings. As early as December building Committee, State Archi 1923, Atholl McBean worried about this in a tect and ourselves were assured memo to his staff in Lincoln. “I am very that you could match terra cotta. nervous over these buildings and am afraid On that assurance on your part we the terra cotta is not going to receive favor based our recommendation that able comment,” he wrote. How right he terra cotta be used in place of imi was. While the terra cotta company pro tation stone. If we had known the moted the ability of their glazes to simulate results would be as disastrous as granite, this project seemed to prove the dif they are, terra cotta would have ficulty of creating a perfect match. McBean, been used without our consent. in another communique to Lincoln on June The unfortunate result is that 4, 1925, reproduced a letter he had received due to the dark color of the terra from the architects: cotta the entire proportions of the On March 20th, 1924, we wrote building are changed. The dark you complaining of the color of frieze and attick [sic] become en tirely too heavy to be supported the terra cotta . . . . There is [only]
— 39 —
events
Foundation
mento,
lando,
road brary.
mento,
Museum,
rals
tiveness
and posed
this
perseverance,
dicious
Continued tunately,
final paint
tion
this
Instead,
spreading
verishly
applying
acid
turned
ous summer
year
ing Weeks
swer.
ing
of
staff
An
One
the
for
project
elevate
it
it
Museum,
remedies
cement
in
bath,
important
problem
with. but
by
doubtless pieces
with
while ance
Ms. solution
ference
lasters,
in
mural
Florida.
and
brush
In
and
Hilton
on
face
the
use
terra
of
can
the
our
out
This
The
Lincoln.
Hyatt
from
the
the
Taylor
truth,
to
the
they
the
projects
dust
downtown
California
ordinary
Disney
to
is
of
the
of
acid
Atlas bleaching
up
will
following
only
minds,” it
to
rectify
have
to
we
Hotel fruition.
cotta
connections
come
delicate
to
page
attempt
pottery
Crocker
chemists is
etc.,
pottery galvanized
in
visibility
Regency
collected
have
function
such
(if
we
support
in
carry
and
has
add
hope dampened
many
about
has
grow
color.
World
41
white
imagine
of
McBean
been
any), the
in
had
have due
off
created
the
State to
the
dirt
oil
Sacramento taken
been
as
The
Sacra
Art
to
wrote
too
experimented
light
to
Lincoln
the
the
did
in
worse
special
of
of day
of the
in
bring
Library. in
been lightened
giving
entirely
in
paint
color
but
and wet
dirt
had
pro
Rail
was
Sacra
change
the
the
dark
the
attrac
a
Or
iron
darkest
Lincoln a
mu
on
not
the
most
wrote
that
few
columns,
blocks.
Atholl,
judging
failure.
Li
cement
and
caused
to
with
ashlar
not
problem.
the
did
yard
reaction
document
the
a
and
years.”
contend
the
to
serious
glaze. the
it
Charles appear
the
dust.
not
program
the Building.
Sacramento
the was
the versity pieces,
latter
Hong
Hicks,
and blocks
hire the Most
sponsored
worked
the
time.
is
will
“The
“is
for darkness
Some
blocks
with
by with
color
by
pi
real
prestigious
Foundation
true
Library’s
work.
of
held
the
dif
will
Blam
That
of
Vari
recently,
over
event,
Unfor
Kingston,
stor
California
James
of
ques
its
publication
an
an
and
a
the
with
on
In
fe
California
special
a
Book
inn
conjunction
celebrating
—40
the
D.
Mexican
Andrew
the
Anon
sponsored
the
Houston,
and
second
edited
Collectors
receptions Foundation
—
State
of
Press Al
in
the
Press. hole
Placer
cisco
of Gladding,
reporter,
Ernest fail
they
admiringly in
that behind
cess,
ration the
are
should white
displayed granitex blocks
trees In
any ings, well,
that
present
spot
War
The
Hoyem
by
Young.
floor
this
Despite
with
the
this
turn,
any
Capitol
most
years
Maxine beginning
to
book, Jack
a
Litera
Exhibit
obvious
hold
in
do
are
a
The if
has
dinner
appear
Club, passage
Uni
the
United
for
whereby
granite
express
of
County,
the
same
Hopkins,
number
or
event,
unchecked,
co
the
be
of
the
not
The
could
day
not
terra
beautiful
remarked
come.” some
pilasters
the
the
these
McBean
noted
one
ground,
granitex
at
blend
hole
appearances,
constructed
differences
to
blocks
States.
granite
the
of
of
these
winning
cotta
school
Bureau, cause to
state
the ues
grams tude
Press’s
Library
surprise
luniinated
other
the
of
moisture
of
have
problems,
Finally,
a time,
Madera
here
It
show
in
the
Governor’s
weathering
to
darker
in
San
are
governmental
modern
of
of
in
may
when
will
here
of
graceful
support
of the
glaze.
districts
in
the
problem:
great
with
blocks
worthy sufficiently
Huell
just
and of
July
California’s
that
a
and
the
Placer
Francisco
evidence
place
when
the
edition
cause
ground
much
the
also
has
terra
between
in
entirely
acquired
County
the
terra
writing
Bible.
California
other a
Howser’s
1928,
the
Foundation
those
This
the
city
and
the
Book
throughout
projects
near
first
trained
worked
distribution
buildings
be
to
County.
learning
Executive
of
cotta
the
of
spalling.
terra
lighter
growth
cotta
assist
lower
Gold
of
rust,
spalling
Gary
said
rose
Examiner
terra
“From
the
the
Fund,
of
who
story.
the
the
masked
buildings
of
arid
about the
iron
San
Research
including
award
deterio
to
Anon
series.
cotta
eye
stone.
deluxe build
a
F.
its units
parapets
that
two
contin
which
Sierra
cotta
end
look the
color.
multi It
the
Director
fall.
pro
Kurutz,
that
Fran straps
of
As
never
to
way
a
Over
will
pro
has
out
of
of ii FOUNDATION NOTES
At the Annual Meeting of the Talking Book Library. The from their formidable library, in Board of Directors, George Bayse O’Shaughnessy family has made a cluding the very rare The Mammoth was elected to a second term as substantial donation to the Foun Tree Grove, Calaveras County, Cali president. Mr. Bayse provided wise dation in memory of the famed fornia (1862) by Edward Vischer; a and generous guidance the previ City Engineer of San Francisco. first edition of Samuel Johnson’s ous year. He brings to the Founda Mr. Kondos, one of California’s two-volume A Dictionary of the En tion valued experience in the op best-known artists, has been com glish Language (1755); and a first eration of nonprofit organizations, missioned to create an oil-on-can edition of William Bligh’s A Voyage having served as president of the vas painting of a Sacramento River to the South Seas in His Majesty’s California Historical Society and scene. Notice of these two ceremo Ship the Bounty (1792). Stephen Crocker Art Museum. Also con nies will be sent to Foundation Anaya of Santa Monica gave to the tinuing as offers are Sue T. Noack, members when final arrangements Library his extraordinary collec vice-president; Barbara Campbell, have been made. tion of three half-plate daguerreo secretary, and Kenneth B. Noack, Last year proved to be most re type views of Benicia. Also in Jr., treasurer. Marilyn Snider was warding in the way of gifts to the cluded in this extraordinary gift elected to another term as a direc collections. Mrs. Robert D. Baker were fifteen cased images of the tor. Allan Forbes served as chair of Fair Oaks donated a detailed Gulick brothers of Benicia along man of the Nominations Commit manuscript map of Folsom drawn with other family members. Elaine tee. by pioneer railroad engineer Coons of Palm Desert donated an The year 2001 promises to be Theodore Judah in 1855. One of important grouping of mining and event-filled for the Foundation. To the foremost Californiana collec oil maps, prospectuses, reports, start off the Library’s sixteenth de tors in the Sacramento area, Dr. stock certificates, trade catalogs, cade of service, the Foundation Robert Alexander, through his and photographs from the Board of Directors presented to the family, presented to the Library Randsburgh, southern San Joaquin Library a beautiful copy of Will the rarest and most valuable items Valley, and Los Angeles County ar iam Morris’s The Kelmscott Chaucer. from his collection, including eas. These wonderful gifts will be Published in 1896, the Chaucer is Sutter and Bidwell letters, a spec described in greater detail in the one of the most celebrated books tacular copy of Riley Root’s over next issue of the Bulletin. of all time and will; be featured in land guide from 1850, and the ex The Foundation continues to a future issue of the Bulletin. As traordinarily rare second edition of work with Sacramento artist part of its program to enhance the Felix Wierzbicki’s California as It Is Stephanie Taylor to create a mural collections of the Library’s Califor and as It May Be (1849). Sacramento for the large blank wall that faces nia History Section, the Founda historian Dr. Robert LaPerriere ar the entrance to the Library and tion purchased a copy of artist and ranged for the gift. Through the Courts II Building. Ms. Taylor, illustrator Tom Killion’s lavish fo good offices of Donald J. Hagerty, through a grant from the Founda lio volume The High Sierra of Cali the Library received the gift of a tion, has developed a striking and fornia. It was purchased in memory magnificent Maynard Dixon paint attractive concept for the wall that of Bertha Hellum. ing called Allegory. It is considered would feature California history This spring, the Foundation will one of his finest. R. and Marsha books framing the Sacramento Val host two receptions: the dedication Williams of San Francisco donated ley. Because the massive blank of the Michael M. O’Shaughnessy the painting. Mr. and Mrs. John wall is part of a State of California Rotunda in the Library and Courts Serrao, formerly of Sacramento owned building that is older than II Building and the unveiling of a and now residing in Rancho Mi fifty years, the Foundation will Gregory Kondos painting in the rage, gave to the Foundation an have to obtain approval from sev Reading Room of the Braille and important selection of rare books eral control agencies. Through ju Continued on page 40 —41—
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