House and Garden (WPA) by Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh
House and Garden (WPA)
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh
Title
House and Garden (WPA)
Artist
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh
1890 - 1944 (biography)Year
1939
Technique
lithograph
Image Size
11 x 12 7/8" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
about 28 impressions
Annotations
pencil titled; WPA stamp on verso "MAR 7 1939"
Reference
GSA WPA catalogue page 258, Newark Museum, New Jersey, #FA3001
Paper
cream Warren's Oldestyle watermarked wove
State
published
Publisher
Federal Art Project, WPA
Inventory ID
AFAE162
Price
$500.00
Description
According to Karla Andersen's article "The Octagon House", San Francisco hosted up to eight octagon -shaped houses in the Victorian era. Two remain today: the Feusier House on Russian Hill, a private residence, and the Cow Hollow house built for William C. McElroy in 1861. The octagon house illustrated in Dorgeloh's lithograph is the McElroy house before it was moved.
In 1951, PG&E decided to develop the property and sold the house for $1.00 to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The organization moved the house across the street to 2645 Gough Street (at Union Street) and restored it. The exterior is in its original condition and the building is on the National Register of Historic Places.