South (Side) Elevation
George W. Marston House, San Diego, California

A broad terrace softens the transition between the first floor living spaces and the expansive lawn and gardens beyond.  This was a common theme in the emerging Craftsman Style, and it eventually would lead to designs that further blurred the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.  In this house, a low wall and a level change make the terrace behave more like a buffer between the two zones than an extension of either.  The windows with the awnings were widened, and the stairs to the lawn were added at a later date.  The rest of the house is pretty much as it was when it was originally built in 1904-05, with Irving John Gill and William Sterling Hebbard as the architects.  Photograph taken in 1997 by Howard J. Partridge.

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