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San Francisco city officials donated a site in 1930. Architect Arthur Brown, Jr. designed the building, which was constructed between 1934 and 1936, under the auspices of Supervising Architect of the Treasury Louis A. Simon. Brown studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the world's preeminent architectural school, graduating in 1901.
San Mateo County, California. Occupation. Architect. Years active. 1905-1949. Arthur Brown Jr. (May 21, 1874—July 7, 1957) [1] was an American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks. He is known for his work with John Bakewell Jr. as Bakewell and Brown, along with later works after the partnership dissolved in ...
A. Page Brown. San Francisco Ferry Building, designed by A. Page Brown in 1892. A. Page Brown, born Arthur Page Brown (December 1859 – January 21, 1896), was an American architect known for buildings that incorporated classical styles in the Beaux-Arts manner. Having first worked in the office of McKim, Mead and White in New York City in 1879 ...
The architects of the building complex were Arthur Brown Jr., who had also designed the adjacent San Francisco City Hall between 1912 and 1916, and G. Albert Lansburgh, a theater designer responsible for San Francisco's Orpheum and the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
San Francisco City Hall. San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.
John Bakewell Jr. was born on August 28, 1872, in Topeka, Kansas, U.S.. [1] He studied architecture at University of California, Berkeley, and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. [1] Arthur Brown Jr. had been his classmate in at École des Beaux-Arts. Working with Arthur Brown Jr., in 1905 they formed the architectural firm of Bakewell and Brown ...
S. San Francisco City Hall. San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. Santa Fe Depot (San Diego) Stanford Memorial Auditorium.
The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (originally named the Departmental Auditorium) is a 750-seat [2] historic Neoclassical auditorium located at 1301 Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. The auditorium, which connects two wings of the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, is owned by the U.S. government but available for use by the public.