John Bakewell Jr. (1872–1963) was an American architect, based in San Francisco, California, U.S.
Biography John Bakewell Jr. was born on August 28, 1872, in Topeka, Kansas, U.S. He studied architecture at University of California, Berkeley, and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. 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, which designed many San Francisco Bay Area landmarks. Following the dissolution of Bakewell and Brown in 1927, Bakewell formed the new partnership of Bakewell and Weihe with longtime employee Ernest Weihe.
List of work Arequipa Sanatorium, Fairfax, CA, 1911 California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1926–1928 San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, CA, 1912–1915 Old Berkeley City Hall, now the Maudelle Shirek Building, Berkeley, CA, 1908–1909 Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, CA, 1925–1927 St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, 1926–1930. Incompletely constructed. Golden Gate International Exposition, French Indo-Chinese Pavilion, San Francisco, CA, 1937–1939. Demolished 1939. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG & E), Headquarters Building, San Francisco, CA, 1924–1926 Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Palace of Horticulture, San Francisco, CA, 1913–1915 Regents of the University of California Office Building, South of Market, San Francisco, CA, 1910–1911. Demolished 1983. Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company, Offices, 1910 San Francisco Housing Authority, Potrero Terrace Housing Development, San Francisco, CA, 1941–1942 San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, War Memorial Veterans' Building, San Francisco, CA, 1922–1932 John D. Sloat Monument, Monterey, CA, 1907 At Stanford University: John Henry Meyer House, Menlo Park, CA, 1920. Now used as the Stanford Provost's residence. Branner Hall, 1922-1923 Encina Commons, 1923 Encina Gymnasium, 1915 Cecil H. Green Library, 1919 Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, Hoover Tower, 1940–1941 Stanford Memorial Auditorium, 1937 Stanford Stadium, 1921 "Old Union" student union, 1915 Toyon Hall, 1922-1923 Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco, CA, 1926 50 United Nations Plaza Federal Office Building (San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, 1936 W.C. Van Antwerp House ("Danvers House"), Burlingame, CA
References
External links John Bakewell Jr. at the Pacific Coast Architecture Database John Bakewell Jr. at archINFORM.