Finding Aid for the W. H. Weeks drawings of the Santa Barbara Junior High School (Santa Barbara, Calif.), circa 1930 0000300

Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu


Title: W. H. Weeks drawings of the Santa Barbara Junior High School (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: 0000300
Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 3.0 Linear feet (1 flat file folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1930
creator: Weeks, William Henry, 1864-1936

Access

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred Citation note

W. H. Weeks drawings of the Santa Barbara Junior High School (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Biographical/Historical note

William Henry Weeks was an early 20th-century architect who designed hundreds of buildings in California (primarily northern California) over the course of his career. Weeks was born on January 18, 1864 in Wichita, Kansas and began his career working with his father as a builder and designer. In 1894, Weeks opened his own practice in Watsonville, California and then opened a second branch in Salinas, California in 1897, and a third branch in San Francisco in 1905. Starting in 1924, William Henry Weeks joined in partnership with his son Harold Weeks to form Weeks and Weeks, Architects, which was based in the San Francisco bay area. Weeks and Weeks quickly developed a reputation as experts in secondary school architecture and designed over one hundred schools over the life of the firm. William Henry Weeks died in 1936.

Scope and Content note

The W. H. Weeks drawings of the Santa Barbara Junior High School span 3 linear feet and date from circa 1930. The collection is composed of two architectural drawings in the form of reprographic copies. Drawings include a plot plan and a planting plan by R. T. Stevens.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Stevens, Ralph T
Weeks, Harold
Weeks, William Henry, 1864-1936
Architectural drawings
Reprographic copies