“Nuhm.  Sohm.  Sahm.  See.  Haa.  Ho.  Ket.  Baahd.  Cow.  Sip.  Change”  Qiyew would begin again with every warm up stretch quickly moving through the numbers and stretching routine as he has done since he was a child.  I spent two weeks learning Muay Thai at the Shalam Phueak gym located on the island of Koh…

Peter Weber, and Peter and Clara during their travels. The images that sparked Dave’s curiosity. Peter Weber is undoubtedly one of our city’s most important architects and when you consider commercial structures alone, is quite possibly the single most important architect.  He was the lead draftsman and designer of the G. Stanley Wilson firm (think…

I live in the Wood Streets neighborhood just south of Downtown Riverside.  The foot of the mountain, by way of Tequesquite Park is just over 1 mile from my front door so I run the mountain several days a week when I’m unable to get over to my favorite trail in the Box Springs, called…

I had the pleasure of sitting with Ryan and Annette in the living room of their stunning Robert Spurgeon designed Spanish Revival in Downtown Riverside’s historic district of North Hill. It has been just shy of 4 years since they moved from a “new build” into their first vintage home and I couldn’t wait to…

Dave Stolte is a thoughtful, creative, kind and generous individual.  I’ve enjoyed getting to know him in recent years and am excited that he’s been offered, and accepted, the role as President of the Old Riverside Foundation.  Dave lives in a 1910 Craftsman home in the Colony Heights Historic District of Downtown Riverside.  He and…

The Wood Streets is one of the most well known neighborhoods in Riverside.  It’s known for its modest historic homes from Arts and Crafts Bungalows to Spanish Colonial Revival and many other European Revival styles.  I believe, however, that this is the extent of most peoples’ knowledge of the neighborhood and so I wanted to…

In my recent trip to London, I came to realize that one of my favorite designers, who was the main influence for much of early 20th century residential architecture in the United States, (Riverside included) was from Walthamstow.  I spent the majority of my childhood in that town and felt even more connected with the…

Craftsman homes have always been among my favorite architectural styles and the more I’ve learned about them the more my appreciation has grown.  The idea of using locally sourced materials and building them such that they appear to have grown out of the earth, or at the very least, have settled thoughtfully into their place,…

The setting for this interview was a beautiful California Style home here in Riverside called Casa Amapola.  It’s hard to verbalize the feeling that has been created at this once, severely neglected residence.  From the street you can see the hand-troweled plaster walls, prominent cylindrical tower and clay tile roof peaking through the colorful red…