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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 50 Embarcadero Road, 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 C.H. Barrett 1023 Forest Avenue Thomas Bender Architect 1005 Bryant Street; 1017-1023 Bryant Street Bakewell & Brown Architect 1200 Bryant, Stanford double houses L.S. Bean Buiilder 505 Homer L.A. Batchelder Builder 535 Lowell William M. Bernard Builder 951, 953, 955 Addison (demolished) John Blakewell Architect Stanford double houses: Alvarado Row and Salvatierra 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 (see Birge Clark page) 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, Allied Arts (Menlo Park) 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 Z. O. Field and Francis K. Ledyard Builder 1017 Bryant Findley and Kingham Builder 872 and 874 Boyce 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. Henry 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 William Knoles Architect 1445 Bryant Gustav Laumeister Builder 1020 Waverley Francis K. Ledyard Builder 1017 Bryant Lindgren and Swinerton Architects/Buiilder 799 Alma Street Longueville and Price Architect/Builder 460 Maple Charles Mackenzie Architect 860 University M.P. Madison and E.A. Williams Architects 119 Bryant 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) Monson Brothers Architects/Builders 529 Bryant 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 E. K. Nelson Builder 440 – 450 Bryant Leslie Nichols Architect 419 Maple, 39 Crescent, 1313 Newell Road, Lawn Bowling Club House Arthur T. O'Briene Architect 457 Kingsley LeBaron Olive Architect 263 Churchill, 1021 Cowper P.P. Quinn Builder 271 Addison William Peacock Builder 510 Waverley (Deckeroak) Reid Brothers Architect W.T. Rhodes Architect 509 Hale Milton B. Roller Architect 448 Addison T. Patterson Ross Architect 900 University (Squire House) E.J. Schmaling Builder 2261 Waverley 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 Willilam Thompson Builder 1200 Bryant H.L. Upham Architect/Builder 271 Addison, 443 Kipling W.H. Weeks Architect 235 Hamilton (Cardinal Hotel) Lobby Weeks and Day Architect Stanford Theater Ralph Emerson Welles Builder 931 Addison James W. Wells Builder 374 Kingsley E.A. Williams and M.P. Madison Architects 119 Bryant Frank W. Wise Buildert 1052 Bryant Street 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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