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The Perine-Gilmour Building is at 1621-23 Broadway / 1624 Telegraph Avenue.
It was redesigned by Reed and Corlett in 1924. Perine-Gilmour refers to contractor Nicholas P. Perine and builder William G. Gilmour. (A 1924 reference for the Gilmour Building calls him a capitalist, so maybe it was (re)built for him, not by him?)
In 1926, one of the first tenants listed at 1621 Broadway after the remodel was the Latham Square Company, which Maury Diggs was part of. They were in process of building the Latham Square Building just across Telegraph. In 1927, Ballard and Ballard, a men's clothing store, moved to 1621 from 1427 Broadway.
Jackson Jewelers started selling used jewelry there c.1932.
The Downtown Oakland Historic District form describes the building:
1621-23 Broadway / 1624-26 Telegraph Avenue is a small three-story Beaux Arts derivative brick store and office building on a double-ended lot with matching enframed window wall facades clad in pinkish-gray terra cotta. The two upper floors are divided into three sections with slender modified Corinthian pilasters. Other classical motifs occur on the elaborate frieze and end piers. It is a semi-twin of 1633 Broadway, and like it, is a 1920s remodeling of a Victorian commercial building by prominent Oakland architects Reed & Corlett. Walter Reed was also the developer of 1633 Broadway, and he and Corlett designed or redesigned a row of three buildings (1621-3, 1625-9, and 1633 Broadway) in this block behind the Federal Realty Building in 1923-24, typical of small scale speculative commercial infill in the district in the 1920s.
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