"A century ago, the Berkeley Daily Gazette featured a drawing and description Oct. 10, 1925, of a new house on Hillcrest Road in Berkeley designed by E. L. Snyder, the in-house architect for Mason McDuffie and H.W. Heard. The house illustrated trends in residential design toward Period Revival architecture. This sketch of an English-style house to be built on Hillcrest Road was featured in the Berkeley Gazette a century ago, showing the era's trend towards Period Revival residential design."
"The general exterior treatment has been carried out along the lines of the cottage type of English architecture, distinctive of the southern counties of England, particularly Sussex, the Gazette reported. The treatment will be in a semi-textural stucco finish with half-timber work and rough hewn posts as decorative notes. There will also be a generous use of brick veneer trimming."
"Parking fines: The city's crackdown on motorists violating Berkeley's new ordinance limiting parking hours in certain commercial districts continued in October 1925. On Oct. 8 of that year, no less than 119 people who had received parking tickets in the past week showed up at the traffic court, and the court bailiff had to stand in the hallway to deliver instructions to the crowd. Most of them opted not to contest the $2 fine, but some did, and two men got their tickets dismissed."
E. L. Snyder designed an English-style house for Hillcrest Road in Berkeley in 1925, reflecting Period Revival residential architecture trends. Exterior plans favored the cottage type of southern English counties, especially Sussex, with semi-textural stucco, half-timber work, rough-hewn posts, and generous brick veneer trimming. South Berkeley planned a large Halloween celebration including a parade, street dance, costume contest, and a professional orchestra, aiming to surpass a similar event held three years earlier that drew several thousand. Berkeley enforced a new parking-hour ordinance; 119 ticketed motorists appeared in traffic court, most paid a $2 fine, and two had tickets dismissed.
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