{"id":3576,"date":"2013-02-26T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2013-01-26T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T21:01:06","slug":"san-francisco-fashion-history-the-womens-architectural-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/san-francisco-fashion-history-the-womens-architectural-league\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Fashion &#038; History: The Women&#8217;s Architectural League"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sflib1.sfpl.org:82\/record=b1021031~S0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webbie1.sfpl.org\/multimedia\/sfphotos\/AAC-6170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judith Kirby wearing a nineteenth century style dress in the former residence of Peter Spring on Chestnut Street, 1949 Mar. 2. (San Francisco Public Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;In one of the bedrooms of the Nixon house on Chestnut-st., which will  be one of six local residences shown on a centennial home tour Wednesday  by the Women&#8217;s Architectural League, Judith Kirby catches the spirit of  last century San Francisco living by stretching her toes for a glimpse  of herself in a hoop-skirted <span style=\"color: #000000;\">gown <\/span>of that era. The house was purchased by Peter Spring from the Eduoard  family some time in the 1860&#8217;s and was known for years as &#8216;Spring  Garden.&#8217; It was taken over by Bruce Porter from Mr. Spring&#8217;s heirs in  1918 and subsequently remodeled. The late Mrs. Doris Ryer Nixon became  its owner seven years ago, and at that time it was restored as nearly as  possible to its original design and interior decoration.&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In one of the bedrooms of the Nixon house on Chestnut-st., which will be one of six local residences shown on a centennial home tour Wednesday by the Women&#8217;s Architectural League, Judith Kirby catches the spirit of last century San Francisco living by stretching her toes for a glimpse of herself in a hoop-skirted gown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}