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Russian Hill: An Early Arts & Crafts Community

At the turn of the 20th century Russian Hill was the center of artistic and intellectual life of San Francisco, grouped around the Reverend Joseph Worcester and the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem.  Leslie Freudenheim, leading expert on this place and period and the author of Building with Nature:  Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home, traces the origins and influence of this special place and time. 

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