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.

“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.”

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