April 28, 2006
Elegant Digs for the Preservationist Brothers of Sigma Phi
An Arts and Crafts masterpiece nestled at the foot of the Berkeley Hills, the Thorsen House is an enigma. Today it might be advertised as an "ultimate bungalow," but the house is — at 9,200 square feet — more like a mansion. With its unusual woodwork and cascades of brick stairs, it little resembles the quaint cottages that dot the windy roads above it.
"I had never seen anything quite like it architecturally," says Edward R. Bosley, who was a freshman at the
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