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Architectural drawings of California buildings
Author
Title
[Architectural drawings of California buildings].
Production
[California], [circa 1898-1930]
Physical Description
47 items : black and white photographs, photomechanical prints, pen and ink drawings ; sheets 26 x 52 cm and smaller (in 2 boxes)
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation and date supplied by cataloger.
Box 1: Photographs, photomechanical prints, and ink drawings. Box 2: Oversize materials and unidentified tracing.
Captions and image content in English.
Provenance
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Photographs, photomechanical prints, and ink drawings likely compiled by architect J. R. Connor of architectural drawings of proposed buildings chiefly in San Francisco, but also in Bakersfield, Eureka, Fresno, Palo Alto, Richmond, Sacramento, San Diego, and Watsonville, California, circa 1898-1930.
Renderings bearing Connor’s signature include the Telephone Building; the Park Presidio Branch (attributed to O’Brien Bros. & Peugh); the Knights of Columbus Building (Smith O’Brien); a hotel building; a tentative design for a bank building; a plant for the Marchetti Motor Co.; the New Fillmore Food Palace; the Tennis Club of San Francisco; the Franklin Office of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Bliss & Faville); a proposed dry ice plant (O’Brien & Peugh); Praegers (Sylvain Schnaittacher); Hamilton’s; the new home for Dunham Carrigan & Hayden Co.; an arcade or office building lobby (Morris M. Bruce); apartments; the Thompson and Ortmann Building; the Pajaro Valley National Bank (H. H. Winner); hotel apartments (H. L. Stevens & Co.); Richmond; the Hotel El Tejon (H. L. Stevens & Co.); the Pickwick Terminal Hotel attributed to (O’Brien Bros.); the Hotel Fresno; the Clark-Dollar Stores Building (Peugh & O’Brien); the Pacific States Saving & Loan Co. Building (O’Brien Bros.); the Southern Pacific Company’s Station (Bliss & Faville); the Pacific States Bank Building; the proposed Greyhound Hotel; and a residence (Havens & Topeke).
Renderings without Connor’s signature include the New Masonic Club (attributed to August C. Headman); the New Home of Title Insurance & Guaranty Co. (O’Brien Bros. & Peugh); the Sheidman Estate Building (Sutter & Stockton); the Women’s Club; Automobile Row; the Pacific Office Building (Meyer & O’Brien); a tentative design for a bank building (Smith O’Brien); the Bakersfield Community Hospital (H. L. Stevens & Co.); the Pickwick Hotel & Terminal (Peugh & O’Brien); and residences (W. L. Schmolle). Also present are renderings for Hotel Bonneville in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Hotel Nevada in Ely, Nevada (H. L. Stevens & Co.).
Included is an unidentified tracing in an unidentified hand bounded by V. H. Ave., Grove St., Mc A. St., and Hyde St., showing federal buildings.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 27, 2020
References
J. R. Connor, Architectural Drawings of California Buildings. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
J. R. Connor, Architectural Drawings of California Buildings. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Photographs.
Photomechanical prints.
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