The Bellevue-Staten is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Bellevue-Staten building was built in 1929. The building is listed to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1991. The The Bellevue-Staten is built in Art Deco and Spanish Colonial architecture, designed by Herman Carl Baumann. The Bellevue-Staten was built and still is an apartment building. Due to likeness to the building used in the 1984 movie 'Ghostbusters, locals call it the Ghostbusters Building. The Bellevue-Staten building is in the Adams Point neighborhood of Oakland.[2]
Architect Herman Carl Baumann (1890–1960), was born in Oakland in 1890 and had an architect office in San Francisco. Baumann died on April 6, 1960, in San Francisco. Baumann also desigened the Bellaire Tower and the Gaylord Hotel (1929) in San Francisco' Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. Baumann designs are found in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, over 500 apartment buildings.[3] During World War II, he designed building for the United States Navy at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.[4][5][6]
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References
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#06001218)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Architect and Engineer, December, 1930 volume 103 number 3, p. 62
- ^ "National Register #91001896: Bellevue-Staten in Oakland, California". noehill.com.
- ^ Baumann, Herman CED Archives, University of California, Berkeley
- ^ Well Known Architect Baumann Dies at 69. San Rafael Daily Independent Journal April 4, 1960
- ^ "Bay Area Architects: H. C. Baumann". noehill.com.
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