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Jane Powell’s legacy will be the bungalows that find loving, more knowledgeable (thanks to her) admirers, and people who don’t easily give up even when “Life backs up a giant truck full of lemons and dumps them on me,” as Jane put it. Jane’s recent me...

 “Classic Kitchen” authority Jane Powell and expert architect/ designer Kathy Rogers will offer professional advice on kitchen remodeling with a slide show. (See article below.)  Rockridge Kitchen Tour tickets will be available for purchase at the meeting.  A copy of Jane Powel...

Jane Powell, author of Bungalow Kitch- ens, explores the history of the “modern” City Cuts Not as Painful as They Could Be

...pen- dence, and pluck, even as she battled illness and foreclo- sure, were an inspiration. Her lymphoma didn’t prevent her from writing her books, even the metastatic lung cancer couldn’t keep her from her “Restoration Comedy” blog on her “Jane Powell – the Author, not the Actress!” website: http://www.janepowell.org/

Oakland author, restoration authority, and preservationist Jane Powell died recently. But her books are still widely available, and will be of interest to many Rockridge residents not already familiar with her work. Jane’s enduring contribu- tion, her legacy, will rest upon her exhaustive, informative, stylis...

...d east. Nationally, they are known as California bungalows. With CCA came an influx of new residents, both faculty and students, and many left their mark on Rockridge. At the October 2009 RCPC Town Hall, Arts & Crafts author and lec- turer Jane Powell noted that while a neighborhood of Pasadena on the National Historic Register has been dubbed “Bungalow Heaven,” Rock- ridge has more and better bungalows in a coherent neighborhood setting. Powell called Rockridge “the finest Arts & Craft...

By Annette Floystrup

Mexican land grant, and Anthony Chabot, the man who brought water to Rockridge by damming Temescal creek, in the process creating Lake Temescal. Noted author Jane Powell followed with a lively presentation tracing the history of our local Craftsman architectural form, Rock- ridge’s most popular and emblematic home style. Ms. Powell has written not just about bungalows, but about bungalow exteriors, interio...

By Jennifer Edmister

C u r i o u s a b o u t R o c k r i d g e n e i g h b o r h o o d h i s t o r y a n d a r c h i t e c t u r e ? T h e O c t o b e r RCPC Town Hall meeting is for you. n Jane Powell, noted author and lecturer on craftsman houses and their details, will talk about the diversity and historical significance of the housing stock in our neighborhood. Pictures in some of Jane’s six books are from area homes. n Rockridge nei...

...more responsive to the issues raised in the Response to Comments. As a result, Oakland and various neighborhood and environmental groups are considering filing a lawsuit. Anti-development rhetoric obscures mutual goals Editor: I agree with Jane Powell (Smart Growth, Green Building, or Historic Preservation?, Rockridge News, September 8) that historic preservation is more culturally and environmentally sustainable than building a new “green” structure. Reusing existing resources — buildi...

...e invention of Cookies and Cream, created by their official taster John Harrison, in 1982. Rockridge hasn’t been on OHA’s roster since 2012, according to Alison Finlay, OHA’s vice president and imme­ diate past president. That’s when guide Jane Powell, the Rockridge expert and

Call for Community Support for Local Bungalow Restorationist Labeled “the bad girl of bungalow writing,” Jane Powell is a restoration consultant, house restorer, lecturer, and author of six books. Now, burdened with a chronic and expensive disease, a major fixer for a house, and a huge mortgage that the bank refuses to modify, she needs your help. We CAN...

the Old Tunnel in the East Bay Hills to as far away as Chico. Automobile travel made it easy to reach the homes on winding roads in the Oakland Hills. Rockridge Architecture Lecture September 6, 7:30 p.m. Prepare for the OHA Tour: Jane Powell will speak on Rockridge architecture in the OHA lecture series, September 6, 7:30 p.m. at the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue. See you there.  5431 College Ave Oakland Ca 94618 510. 652. 5431  Ortrun Niesar can be reached at o...

By Annette Floystrup

hadn’t fully appreciated as unique archi- tectural treasures. Labeled “the bad girl of bungalow writing,” Jane Powell is a restoration consultant, house restorer, lecturer, and author of six books which are available at local bookstores and through her website www.bungalowkitchens.com. Annalee Allen writes a column for the Oakland Tribune and is the autho...

...sacrificed to the greater good of “Smart Growth,” because otherwise the project will not “pencil out.” Which means: the developers will not make the obscene profit to which they feel entitled. The following is an excerpt of a talk given by Jane Powell at the STAND (Standing Together for Accountable Development) Community Meeting on July 21, 2007. A If a 5,000-square-foot build- ing is bulldozed, it wipes out the environmental benefit from the last 1,344,000 aluminum cans that were recyc...

...tearing down an existing small building in order to throw up (I use that term deliberately) a much larger building. Usually the threatened building is historic, so the argument is made that it would cost too much to fix the historic build- Jane Powell is an author and restoration consultant.

...der proposed city rules governing new residential construc- tion in Rockridge. Similarly, sunlight entering outdoor patios would be protected but not the sunlight that brightens kitchens and other spaces inside the home. by Natalie Mehta I Jane Powell, author of Bungalow

ATTEND: A fabulous event at the “Sunset House” Feb. 12, Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Singles $25/couples $40 (no one turned away). Sunset House, 2708 Sunset Ave., is east of Fruitvale Ave., at Lynde and 27th. More information: See Jane’s blog at JanePowell.org

She can be reached at janepowell@sbcglobal.net. More information is available at http://www.artisti- clicense.org/members/powell/index.html To contact STAND call: 510/654-8925 or 510/655-3841. Join the STAND e-mail list: e-mail standnorthoakland@gmail.com. Rebecca Lueck, L...

1501 Powell Street « Emeryville « 94608 DIRECTOR: JANET BLAIR

1501 Powell Street « Emeryville » 94608 DIRECTOR: JANET BLAIR

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CALL FOR CAMP OR SPRING SEMESTER BROCHURES: 652-3727 DIRECTOR: JANET BLAIR * 1501 POWELL ST., EMERYVILLE