Product Overview
This is a great model of an ornate Art Nouveau style commercial building with much to look at! Actual building is located at 301 Sutter St in San Francisco California. It is San Francisco Landmark number 117.
3 stories with nice BIG front windows that can display a interior well! MANY highly detailed exterior pewter castings included in our kit.
Interior detail millwork castings available seperately for this kit (SS7228). Interior details for store or office available in our Fezziwig line of interior details.
Injection molded front walls, hand poured resin side walls and flooring, & hand cast pewter parts,
Footprint: 5.50" deep x 3.25" wide x 6.5" high. Narrower rear wall (2.125") than front wall (3.25").
Also consider our SS1150 'False Front" version of this building. The same front walls and castings, but without the side walls, roof, and flooring.
More about the prototype building:
San Francisco Landmark #117
Hammersmith Building
301-303 Sutter Street At Grant Avenue
Built 1907
Although it occupies one of the smallest sites in the retail area, the Art Nouveau Hammersmith Building, designed by Lansburgh & Joseph, makes a contribution to the streetscape which is wholly disproportionate to its size. This important corner building characterizes, in its immediate area, the Beaux-Arts inspired post-1906 development of much of downtown San Francisco.
The building has a large amount of glass for the time it was built, and one motif, that of a building-wide arch, running through all floors.
It has maintained its integrity, having been little remodeled in its seventy-two year existence.
One of the architects, G. Albert Lansburgh, earned local fame particularly as a designer of theatres.
