Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 17

1 THE OAKLAND TRiRUNF LOCALS Oakland's historic shrine to architectural tile work Landmarks li I "TST L- 1 pvigp BUILDING is onr of Oakland's most unusual. A gala auction this craning Saturday, sponsored by the University chapter of the YWCA, presents an opportunity to bid on special excursions In downtown Oakland. A guided tour At Preservation Park followed by a meal at nearby Le Cheval Restaurant (an Illustrated book about Preservation Park Is Included Is one auction Item. Also up for the highest bidder: a tour of downtown's art deco landmarks led by tile expert Riley Dotey. A meal at Sabina India Cuisine Restaurant locati in the historic Howden Building is Included with the tour.

The Howden Building at 17th and Webster streets has one of the most striking facades to be seen anywhere. Clad entirely in gleaming black ceramic tile with orange toned accents, it is the creation of an artistic-minded businessman who laid tiles for a living. Robert A. Howden. aiajlve of Scotland, came to the'East ifey in 1893 and started bis small business.

In addition to tile laying, he Installed fireplaces and mantels. By 1925 when the-building opened, he had high hopes his sons would follow him in the business' Howden conceived the structure as a colorful testament to the manufacturers he dealt with in'his tile setting work. Tour leader Riley Doty, him-. self a tile setter by profession, is an inspiration to his sons to carry rat the business. He retired so lie could devote more time to overseeing the fanciful facade.

Later he camped out in.the Santa Cruz mountains near Ben Lomond for four years, building a tiled castle to be used for a family summer home." Unfortunately, the budding cm Webster Street did not stay to family hands for long. One of the brothers wasn't Interested In -the business, and the other my father was not able to hang ou to it during the Depression." Howden-Goetzel says. He main- (aired a tile business for many yeais but not, unfortunately in that partlculaijhuilding." Howden-Goetzel is proud of the work of her grandfather and said she is pleased artisans such 1 as Riley Doty are taking a renewed interest the craft Doty is a member of Artistic License, a guild of Bay Area artl-' sans with skills to -woodworking, painting and other aspects of restoration. He is also 1 active In the Tile Heritage Foun- -datlon, dedicated to celebrating ceramic tiles to all formats. Fra Information about Artistic' -License, call (415) 675-9996.

The Tile Heritage Foundation can be reached at (7071 431-8453. Tickets are still available for, the University YWCA auction and dinner. Reservations can be made through Wednesday, by calling 848-6370. The $75-per-person event will be held at the -Faculty Club bn campus starting at 6 p.m. and benefits die 100- year-old group's programs.

interested In the proliferation of tile producers in the 1920s. According to Doty, at least 11 Bay Area firms flourished during tills period. Tile and terra cotta manufac-. turers. including Gladdening-McBean of Sacramento, N.

Clarke Sons of Alameda and California Art Tile of Richmond. catered to the followers of the burgeoning arts and crafts The arts and Crafts style was particularly popular during this period in the construction of domestic as well as commercial buildings. Doty has collected hundreds bf'examples of llantly hued tiles and taken -countless photographs of buddings throughout the Bay Area in efTorts to document this design -phenomenon. The Howden Budding remains one of his favorites. Howden was the son of a poet Whose hard-.

scrabble life back in Scotland did not prevent him from expressing his Ideas." says Doty. "The son Inherited this sense of passion about life and found his' mode of la ii 'rZS-f 7 the Howden building at 17th and ish-black tile, flank the entry. Elaborate brackets with gargoyle heads and a tile mural featuring exotically colored birdsalso mark the entrance, to the restaurant: Inside, the original medieval-style tiled fireplace, remains. stairway to a mezzanine level has potychromed tiles and risers, also a delight to the eye. The near 0 MM UN I ittohdaf -W jj.

If you Ilka tiles, youve got to see expression in die." The Cultural Heritage Survey evaluation of the Howden Building notes the remarkable Spanish baroquemoorish style 1 elements visible throughout Sabina Restaurant is located in what was originally the tile showroom on the Webster Street tide. Projecting piers, clad in blu By Ghm Chapman STAff WRITER Vlvcca Bradley envisioned the tribute to Alameda Countys -Men firefighters and police offi-. cers as a spiral of bealing and introspection. Andrew fiofka pictured a po lice badge-shaped fountain1 ted by a shiny brass nozzle of a fire department For Jack Hoyt, the police and firefighters kilted in the line of duty In Alameda would have their names inscribed in solitary near a county map made of yards of pink Christopher Stokes a memorial along the plaza hugged by a names. It was the set of mils and Images designed Jby Mike Laram.

Thomas Chytrowskl and CarlbAbruzze of Pacific Do sign Architecture in San Ftan-clsco tiot won out alter a count Of the votes cast by fire, police and political representatives in the West Side Club at the Oakland Coliseum Thursday night. A VELMA NURSIStril Webster in Oakland. Howden Building was declared a city landmark in 1984. YWCA board member Jean Howden-Goetzel, one of the or- ganizers of the auction, is Robert Howdens granddaughter, She has fond memories of spending time in her grandfather's un-. usual building.

He wanted the building to be would spiral out and end a buttcHly garden. The memorial should be. a journey of remembrance and Bradley Alt' the end oflhe trail of. tears; the but: terfly garden represents metamorphosis td a better state. Vote on gender lines There was evidence to support suspicion that the vote broke down on gendie lines.

The Origins design gar- nered the vote of nearly every woman surveyed, including San Leandro Mayor Ellen Co'rbett. "It yvas very different and talked to the processing of mourning and recovering from loss." Corbett said after casting her vote. It was very different." TOMQAUAQHPI-Srai Carmen Daniels checks out the winning ctesign for the fire and police memorial to be built at the Alameda Countyftirg rounds by the year 2000.. While. PdA walked away with'.

the memorial contract, Bradley and Martynetz made due with slipping onto the field and run-. ning the bases. This is all about love and doing something -special for other people.7 Martynetz said of the But I think if there had. been more women. we would have, won.

County police and firefighters formed a foundation last year to. raise money to build the memo-" rial. -'County Supervisor Mary arranged for the property 'at the fairgrounds in Pleasanton to be donated for. the memorial: It Is reassuring to know that my husband Is still being re- -memhered)' said Lucy Grijalva, This is. all very welcomed." Grijalva's husband.

William, was Oakland police; officer shot dead while trying tp take a pit bull terrier front a home in December 1993. Aitother; name On the monu-. ment( will be Benjamin -Worcester, who had been a ward -officer just five years be- fore he was stabbed in the neck while trying to handcuff a man in a motor home parked at Elm- hurst and Broadmore streets on 1987. It Will be a tribute to all who have lost their lives tidying our community, said Hayward po-. lice Chief Craig Calhoun.

It Is long overdue and very deserved." Worcester's name Is on the police memorial In Sacramento. which also was designed by In the PdA. design, bronze people." statues of fire and police personnel and their gear and their dogs will project from the main are money AinsADfiBn-AiwraiT Today GOSPEL PLAY Divine Munc Mniatty present ti goapal pbyXMHft Go of Hii Hands, 6 pm, $15, Black Repertory The-alor, 3201 AdaSna St. BarWay, JULIA MORGAN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR Tour ttw Juia MoigaiHiaaignad' Hstorical Landmark Berkeley City dub with ki Moor pod, grand bahoom aid aptendkl pubic rooms $2, noon to 4 pm, no reparation required, 2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, 848-7800. ABORTION RESOURCE HAN0600K AUTHOR LECTURE Author K.

Kaufman tfanaaea ha book and the (higgle for abortion right, 7 pun. Revolution Book, 2425 Charring Why, Berkeley, 848-11. CAUFORMA VTOMEN VYRDERS AUTHOR REAONG The Women' Cancer Reaource Center hoeti book party end raetfing celebrating the releaee of Safcter, Sweetwater: Woman Write From Caiomia'i North (Mi author Baber JJ. Whoa Marianne Ware, Dee Watt, Unde Noel and more, fre 3 to 5 pm, 3023 Shat-tuck Ave, Berkeley, 548-3272. Chances to learn Today FERN FACTS UC Botanical Garden patent lecture on glaring tom from pore with horticulturiit Martin Grerthanv 0 general, $40 number 10 am to 4 p.m, 200 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, 643-2755 COMPOST DEMONSTRATION Ato-meda County Watoe Management Authority hoidi a tw, hanttoon worishop on com-posting vWh redworm 2 to 4 pm, Oridmd Qompoit Demonitration Garden, 666 RJNMAISERS Today HARPSttHOflO BENEFIT CONCERT A )ttpchord concst benefiting to Depps fat Fund, an agsiMion providng mer-iency tosnctol wppott to member of the -Bay Are' esfy muse community Mng 'M ftothraatoning Ineai, toatura Phab Craig, Jinin Johnna Krihsin Robert )Msto Ellin Thornburgh $25, 4 pm, a rifesT Epitcopri Church 1501 Wtohnpon BENEFIT MOVE SCREBW4G Dun-smuir Horae' Centennial Fund pmstt jbsnelt fhoring of "Burnt Ofhringa a ittovis ssring Bed Dsvfs fknad ri IX-mur sto prarnkwriy ihowciBng tha msv pm, $10 include movie, tour, popcorn and a drink, 2960 Peralta Oaks Cout Oakland, 615-5565.

RBUGS CAMP VDEOSCREEMNG -r La Rene Cdtural Center hold acraariing looking at toe condkkme of refugee campe in die Chenalhpaea of Chiepee eoulham MexMbenefidrig human 'rigfit network in tha location, $3 to 7:30 pm, 3106 Shto-tuck Aw, Berkeley, 6549587. PARENTS Today STAGEBRDGE THEATER PREMERE -The premiere of Unde Spactore Thicken Sunday end Otha Grandparent1 Tde followed by a homecookad chicken drear and performed by a cast kom 10 to 80 yeas okt totowsPeekre Pdacco1 adventure of growing ip in Oakland; $13 general and $6 chidren for drear and piey, $8 general and $3 children for play only, 4 pm. First Congregational Church 2501 Harriaon St, Oakland, 444755. Today ALPINE PLANTS SUDE PRESENTATION Die annual meeting of the OakbndEart Bay Garden Center Inc. Federation it Plant Sodedea, Garden Qubw end Cultural Graupe featurec John Watmn and a rikto praaento-tion of w)d and cutovaled Alpine ptanl tea, 7 pm.

Lakeside Park Garden Carter, 656 Balevue Ave, Oakland. MISCELLANEOUS Today DBETAN MBXCNE SEMNAR A weekend aamnar looking a tha practice and giiritori method of Dbaton madam Summit HoapM Health and Education Center, 350 Hawthorne Ave, regietration recommended 433-7836. WOMEN'S SAUNG SEMWAR The 6di Amuri Northern CaHomie Women' Being Seminir toachea woman tiw ad of uKng through woriohope and hanttoon axarctoa $65, 7:30 am. to 5:30 pm. Sto-urday, vwying time Sunday, khnd.Yicht Club, Alameda Matin 881-5422.

Have a listing for the dailg calendar? Send ii two weeks in advance to Community Calendar, The Oakland Tiibune, P.O. Bat 28884, Oakland 94804, or adl 208-8451. To fax information, dial 208-6477. Height MRRIUIA only $99 1 TO START cnaMiikMiiyk VMMiriWU The names of firefighters and police officers killed while at work in the county will be engraved in a set of lower walls that will partially enclose the memorial. Larson said they went with the multi-wall design to give the memorial a more distinct' presence.

The donated site for the memorial has a pink building used by Satellite Bedding on one side and a driving range on the other. Hard site to daim' It was a real hard site to claim," Larson said. We brainstormed for quite some time to give it sanctity and a sense of place." Mark Whltehouse of the Alameda County Deputy Sheriffs at Association Unded Chytrowski 3 52500 check' the. prize money' for Winning- the design' competition. "There, is' a quiet 'dignity about our design that is.

at the same time, heroic," Chytrowskl said. That appeals to a lot of Firefighters and police officers continuing to raise to complete the memorial. which has been budgeted at $300,000. Whltehouse said the memorial should be built within 18 months. Kudos for creativity went to the concept created tty Bradley and Alexandra Martynetz of Origins Design Network In Oak- In the design, flowing water bordered a walkway that spiraled down to a pool of tears.

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