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Prominent Architects and Builders

Many Palo Alto and Stanford buildings are recognizable as to works of certain architects and builders, some of whom are known internationally.

Some of them are noted below with links to examples.

Thomas J. Allen Builder 630 Lytton
Allison and Allison Architect Palo Alto H.S. Administration and Auditorium buildings (old photo)
Louis Anderson Builder 215 Bryant
A. Aro and N.J. Okerman Architect 1300 Hamilton
Albert Bain Architect 559 Kingsley
Bakewell & Brown Architect 1200 Bryant, Stanford double houses
L.S. Bean Buiilder 505 Homer
L.A. Batchelder Buildert 535 Lowell
John Blakewell Architect  
Bliss and Faville Architect 567 Hale
T.E. Bowman Architect 1301 Bryant
John Branner Architect Primarily on the Stanford campus: 755 Santa Ynez
C.E. Branson Architect 505 Homer
J.H. Christie Architect  
A. B. Clark Architect Stanford professor, 1136 Waverley
Birge Clark Architect Commercial and residential
David Clark Architect 155 Island Drive
E.V. Cobby Architect 529 Bryant
Frederick Confers Architect 190 Island
Ernest Coxhead Architect 567 Melville
Gardner Dailey Architect 525 East Crescent, 1800 University, 1870 University
Pedro de Lemos Architect Waverley Oaks, Ramona Street
Antonio Drago Builder 2050 Hanover
John Dudfield Builder 625 Hale, 132 Lincoln
Joseph Eichler Buiilder Edgewood, Green Gables, Greenmeadow, Los Arboles and other subdivisions and commissions at Stanford
Albert Farr Architect 1600 Bryant Street
Field and Ledyard Builder 347 Ramona
George Freear Architect 70 Crescent Drive
Elmer Gary Architect 661 Bryant former (First Church of Christ, Scientist)
Wells P. Goodenough Builder Many sidewalks bear his stamp.
Harrt Gutterson Architect  
J.C. Hladik Architect 345 Forest (Laning Chateau)
Roy C. Heald Architect Castilleja Administration Building
E. A. Hettinger Builder  
Charles Hodges Architect Designed many homes at Stanford and Palo Alto as well as Stanford's Memorial Arch.
George Jacobson Builder  
Carr Jones Architect 2101 Waverley Street
William Klay Architect/Buiilder 780 Hamilton
Gustav Laumeister Builder 1020 Waverley
Francis K. Ledyard Builder  
Longueville and Price Architect/Builder 460 Maple
Charles Mackenzie Architect 860 University
John Madsen Builder Cardinal Hotel
Bernard Maybeck Architect The recently restored Sunbonnet House at 1061 Bryant Street is his prominent Palo Alto design.
Frank McMurry Architect 450 Kingsley
Fred Meyer Architect 320 Kellogg
Minton Company Builder  
W. Garden Mitchell Architect 2110 Park (concrete)
George B. Moore Buuilder 686 Matadero
Julia Morgan Architect Designed several homes and the National Register World War I Hostess House
George W. Mosher Builder 575 Hawthorne
Samuel Newsom Architect 514 High (Fraternal Hall)
Lesley Nichols Architect 419 Maple, 39 Crescent
Arthur T. O'Briene Architect 457 Kingsley
LeBaron Olive Architect 263 Churchill, 1021 Cowper
P.P. Quinn Builder 271 Addison
Reid Brothers Architect  
W.T. Rhodes Architect 509 Hale
T. Patterson Ross Architect 900 University (Squire House)
E.J. Schmaling Builder  
A. W. Smith Architect 601 Melville, National Register; 281 Addison, (Most of his work was in Oakland.)
George Washington Smith Architect Most famous for the public buildings in Santa Barbara, 1336 Cowper (National Register)
Henry C. Smith Architect  
Marcus Stedman Builder 272 Rinconada Avenue was his home. Other Stedman homes were featured on the 2009 Holiday House Tour.
Walter Sorenson Builder  
Joseph L. Stewart Architect 610 Coleridge
Charles K. Sumner Architect Sumner homes were featured on the 2007 Holiday House Tour.
Stern & Price Developers See examples on Murdoch, Alger, Ashton, Cowper, Maureen, Middlefield, and Rambow.
Clarence Tanta Architect 300 Coleridge
Charles Tantau Architect 236 Churchill
John Hudson Thomas Architect 275 Lowell/1680 Bryant
H.L. Upham Architect/Builder 271 Addison, 443 Kipling
W.H. Weeks Architect 235 Hamilton (Cardinal Hotel)
Weeks and Day Architect Stanford Theater
James W. Wells Builder 374 Kingsley
F.D. Wolfe Architect 1052 Bryant Street, 860 University
Frank Lloyd Wright Architect National Register Hanna-Honeycomb House at Stanford
William Wilson Wurster Architect 2240 Cowper, 1570 Emerson
     
     
     

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