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Lewis P. Hobart Collection, 1907-1915
1986-4
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Collection Title: Lewis P. Hobart Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1907-1915
Collection Number: 1986-4
Creator:
Hobart, Lewis P., 1873-1954
Extent: 4 oversize folders
Repository:
Environmental Design Archives.
University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California.
Abstract: The collection consists of architectural drawings of commercial buildings by Lewis P. Hobart in the Bay Area.
Language:
English.
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], Lewis P. Hobart Collection, (1986-4), Environmental Design Archives. University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California.
The collection was donated in 1986.
Architects--California.
Architecture--California.
Lewis P. Hobart (1873-1954)
Louis P. Hobart was born in St. Louis in 1973. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his bachelor's
and master's degrees, and also studied at the American Academy in Rome and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. After completing
his studies, Hobart worked in New York for two years before moving to San Francisco in 1906.
Hobart was very involved in the rebuilding of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906, and designed structures
in a variety of styles that reflected his Beaux Arts training. He was the original architect for Grace Cathedral (completed
by Weihe, Frick & Kruse), designed the Academy of Sciences, the University of California hospital, and several office buildings
in downtown San Francisco and Oakland. He also designed numerous mansions in Hillsborough and Burlingame.
The Louis P. Hobart collection consist of drawings from the Shredded Wheat Company building (Oakland 1915), the White Investment
Company building (San Francisco 1907), the Kiersted residence (Hillsborough n.d.), and the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
(San Francisco 1913-1914). Hobart's photographs of Grace Cathedral can be found in the Weihe, Frick & Kruse collection.
Title: Weihe, Frick & Kruse
Identifier/Call Number: 1978-3
Contributing Institution: Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley