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Photographer: David G. De Vries
Taken: September 1991
Caption: Davis-Byrne Building Streetscape (circa 1991), courtesy of the Historic American Building Survey
Additional Description: Statement of Significance from HABS: The Davis-Byrne Building is a characteristic example of a once-common building type distinguished by its unusually high degree of integrity, including its unaltered storefronts. As a building type, it represents the long tradition of housing over shops as it was adopted in streetcar cities. It is an important surviving element in Dwight Way Station, a neighborhood commercial area that arose and flourished as a steam train and electric streetcar stop. This is a characteristic but rarely documented example of the housing patterns of small shopkeepers and working-class people as those patterns changed during the 20th century.
Submitted: April 7, 2010, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p103971
File Size: 0.207 Megabytes

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