In conjunction with the Architecture and the City festival, the San Francisco History Center presents a selection of original architectural renderings and other images which give inklings of a city very different from the one we know today. We encourage you to come view the exhibition Unbuilt San Francisco: Public Spaces on the 6th floor of the Main Library. What's on the 6th Floor will be highlighting selections weekly to tempt you to visit! The collaborative exhibition includes AIA San Francisco, Center for Architecture + Design; Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley; California Historical Society; SPUR; and, the San Francisco Public Library.
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| Carlos J. Nuese's watercolor of New Sutro Baths, 1934 |
Carlos J. Nuese (1876-1957)
New Sutro Baths, Indoor Beach exterior 1934
watercolor and gouache on board, 16.25 x 22”
Mayor Adolph Sutro opened the public swimming pools called Sutro Baths in 1896, just north of the Cliff House. In 1934, San Francisco was starting to emerge from the darkest days of the Great Depression, and Harold G. Stoner was hired as architect for this $250,000 remodeling project (Stoner had already designed a residence for Adolph G. Sutro, grandson of the Baths’ founder). Nuese, an architectural artist, had worked in Seattle prior to 1910, and had designed the Montana State Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Nuese’s design for this main entrance to Sutro Baths was eventually rejected, and after remodeling, the structure’s architecture had been variously described as “Art Deco” or “Coney Island.”
What was built -
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| Tropic Beach, Sutro Baths, 1935 |
Interested in learning more about the history and incarnations of Sutro Baths? Come visit the San Francisco History Center! There are photographs, postcards, ephemera, books and even a bathing suit!
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