Richmond District Police Station

 Posted by on June 19, 2013
Jun 192013
 

461 6th Avenue
Richmond Police Station
Richmond District

Richmond Police Station

The Richmond District Police Station was built in 1927 in a red-brick Romanesque Revival style.

Richmond District Police Department Horse BarnThe Horse Barn

Behind the police station this brick building housed horses with a loft to hold their feed in the back.  Both buildings were renovated in 1990 and the horse building now houses offices as well as a neighborhood community room.

I had come to the Police Station to photograph and write about the glass entry door by Shelly Jurs.

Shelly Jurs - Richmond Police Station Front DoorShelly Jurs trained in architectural glass techniques at the Cummings Studio in San Rafael, California (1973-74) and the Swansea College of Art, South Wales, Great Britain,  in 1975. She did a formal apprenticeship training at the Willets Stained Glass Studio, Philadelphia, PA, 1976-77. She served as personal Assistant to Ludwig Schaffrath, a major figure in the glass art renaissance of post-war Germany and a world-renowned architectural glass designer. In October of 1978 she opened her own architectural glass studio in Oakland, California and has since completed well over 200 custom architectural glass works.

 

Jaap Bong at the Richmond Police Station

A delightful policeman invited me in to see the rest of the station. This Bronze, Granite and Marble piece in the lobby of the Police Station is by Jaap (Jacob) Bong.  Bong has a piece on Fire Station #24 that you can see here.  Jaap Bongers was born in Stein, Holland and studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie of Fine Arts and the Stadsacademie of Fine Arts, both in Maastricht, Holland. In addition to his travels to Africa, Bongers also visited the United States for the first time in 1985 and settled permanently in San Jose in 1987.

On the wall behind this mosaic were these lovely framed originals of the police station’s blueprints.

Richmond District Fire Station Blueprints

*Richmond District Police Station Horse Barn

Fire at Fire Station #24

 Posted by on December 4, 2012
Dec 042012
 

100 Hoffman
Castro/Cole Valley

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Fire by Jaap (Jacob) Bongers – 1993

Jaap Bongers was born in Stein, Holland and studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie of Fine Arts and the Stadsacademie of Fine Arts, both in Maastricht, Holland. In addition to his travels to Africa, Bongers also visited the United States for the first time in 1985 and settled permanently in San Jose in 1987.

This piece was commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission for $14,000.

The words are ways to say fire in several other languages.

Api – Indonesian
Apoy – Ilocano/Filipino
Feu-French
Feuer-German
Fuego-Spanish
Fuoco Italian
Hapuy-MalayoPolynesian
Ignis – Latin
Lume – Galician
Moto – Swahili/Shona (Bantu)
Uguns – Latvian
Vatra – Serbian
Vuur – Dutch

 

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