Having seen the three homes on San Leandro's Superior Avenue that create the elevation for the home on Hayward's Prospect Avenue home.
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537, 527 and 521 as they are on San Leandro's Superior Avenue
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As photographed the same three houses as diagrammed above
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537, 527 and 521 as they would be combined together.
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The above combination is then mirror imaged and then you get "The house on Prospect" in Hayward.
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As photographed, the house diagrammed in illustration #4
Recently,
I've noticed that two homes on Superior Avenue when joined together also create a common variation to the storybook style architecture theme. The home in this puzzle features a shed dormer style roof over the window of the second house. Most commonly a front facing gable replaces that shed roof.
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573 and 565 Superior as they are located in San Leandro
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The puzzle house combined here would result in the following look
Homes like this are common to El Cerrito, San Pablo, Kensington, Berkeley and Clarksburg California. Another example of this style is the Oakland Public Library in the Montclair District (shown below).
illustration #9 The Montclair Library
This type of house always has a catslide roof off to one side and a wing coming off of that. On the wing coming off the catslide their is usually a dormer facing the same direction as the main catslide gable.
Another Puzzle home.
Another home located in San Leandro's unincorporated Ashland Distrcit located on 170th is a combination of 537 (Mayor/builder Earl Derry's House) and a home on the 700 block of Bridge Road (Tom Derry's House). Google map both Bridge Road and 170th Avenue.
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Above is the Tom Derry House.
When it's combined with the familiar image of the catslide version representing Earl Derry's House you get the house below located on 170th.
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The puzzle house located on 170th in San Leandro's unicorporated Ashland District.
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