Henry Gutterson Collection 1956.-2
Joanne Miller
Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation.
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
1998
230 Bauer Wurster Hall #1820
Berkeley, CA 94720-1820
designarchives@berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Henry Gutterson Collection
Creator:
Gutterson, Henry, 1884-1954
Identifier/Call Number: 1956.-2
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet:
3 folders
Date (inclusive): 1923-1946
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
[Identification of Item], Henry Gutterson Collection, (1956-2), Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Henry Gutterson (1884-1954)
Henry Gutterson was born in 1884 in Minnesota. He graduated from Berkeley High School in 1903, and from the University of
California, Berkeley School of Architecture in 1905 and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1906 to 1909. After
a brief stay in New York working for Grosvenor Atterbury, Gutterson returned to California in 1910 marrying Helen Arnett a
year later.
He worked for John Galen Howard on the Panama-Pacific Exposition and St. Francis Wood and for the City of Oakland before opening
his own practice in 1914. Gutterson's major projects include the duplexes and cottages along Rose Walk, 75 houses in St.
Francis Wood where he was supervising architect, The Christian Science Benevolent Society, Arden Wood in San Francisco and
many Christian Science churches. He worked with Bernard Maybeck on several projects including churches the First Church of
Christ Science Sunday School and the Principia College Library (Elsah, Illinois). He also designed a number of other buildings
at Principia College.
Gutterson taught briefly at the University of California from 1910 to 1911, and from 1920 to 1921. He was active in civic
planning, and was a member of the Berkeley Planning Commission and the co-founder and president of the Berkeley Planning and
Housing Association. From 1927 to 1930, he served as president of the Sierra Nevada chapter of the A.I.A. In 1946 Gutterson
received an award from the A.I.A. for his contributions to the unification of the profession.
The Henry Gutterson collection contains a limited number original drawings, blueprints, and specifications relating to residential
and church designs. Projects in the collection include the First Church of Christ Scientist (Santa Barbara), the Berkeley
High School auditorium, Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist (San Francisco), the A.A. Tibbe Residence (Oakland), the Principia
College library (Illinois), and St. Francis Wood, San Francisco. The sketches include a portrait, a landscape, and a detailed
pencil drawing of the Notre Dame cathedral. The collection also contains blueprints and trace drawings from 2922 Garber Street
(Berkeley) that were donated separately. Gutterson drawings for the First Church of Christ, Scientist (Berkeley), can be
found in the Bernard Maybeck collection.
Henry Gutterson's manuscript material is comprised of two folders and is held within Small Collections. It includes building
specifications for First Church of Christ Scientist in Berkeley, CA (ca. 1925) ; and Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Tibbe Residence in
Oakland, CA (ca. 1918).
Mason-McDuffie Co. Records (BANC MSS 89/12 c), the Bancroft Library
Bernard Maybeck Collection (1956-1), Environmental Design Archives
Irving F. and Gertrude Comfort Morrow Collection (1992-1), Environmental Design Archives
Harry W. Shepherd Collection (1998-11), Environmental Design Archives
St Francis Wood Homeowners Assoc (2007-1), Environmental Design Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architects -- California.
Architecture -- California.