""Tupper & Reed have ventured into a most startling departure in the beautiful and artistic building. ... They have departed widely from the stereotyped style of store building, the structure having more the appearance of an old-world dwelling than of a modern place of business. ... W.R. Yelland, the architect, describes the building as rural European. It has all the appearance of northern Europe.""
""A steep and pointed gable roof of imported English slate is capped with a little dove cote. A huge chimney 45 feet in height dominates the whole structure. On top of the chimney a life-size figure of a piper stands. The building is erected of selected brick(s) ... treated with paint and acid and plaster to make it look old.""
Tupper & Reed opened a music house at 2271 Shattuck Ave on Sept. 1, 1925, with entertainment by Mme. Raegan Talbot and the Horace Heiet Orchestra. The building was designed in a rural European, old-world style by architect W.R. Yelland, featuring imported English slate gables, a 45-foot chimney topped by a life-size piper, and aged brick finishes. The street-level music store included listening rooms for phonographs and radios and a small upstairs concert hall. An exterior staircase led to a second-floor tea room called "The Sign of the Piper," leased to Mrs. Diana Henderson and Mrs. Marguerite Taylor, who served lunches, teas, and dinners.
Read at The Mercury News
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