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19XX-12
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Collection Title: Edward L. Frick Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1912-1932
Collection Number: 19XX-12
Creator:
Frick, Edward L., b. 1891
Extent: 3 oversize folders
Repository:
Environmental Design Archives.
University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California.
Abstract: The collection consists of architectural drawings.
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], Edward L. Frick Collection, (19XX-12), Environmental Design Archives. University of California,
Berkeley. Berkeley, California.
Provenance of the collection is unclear.
Architects--California.
Architecture--California.
Edward L. Frick (1891-19??)
Edward Frick was born in 1891 and went to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1913, after winning a scholarship from the
Architectural League of the Pacific Coast. After the school closed due to World War I, Frick returned to San Francisco to
work for the firm Bakewell & Brown. When the United States entered the war, he enlisted in the military in a detachment of
engineers and architects and was sent to France. Following the war, Frick finished his studies at the Ecole receiving his
degree in 1922. He continued to be associated with Arthur Brown Jr., even after Bakewell & Brown dissolved in 1927. From 1935
to 1939 Frick was chief of architecture for the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island. He was a member of
the San Francisco Art Commission from 1935 to 1945. In 1941, he established the firm Weihe, Frick & Kruse with Ernest Weihe
and Lawrence Kruse. The firm dissolved in 1965.
The Edward Frick collection consists of his award winning "Festival Hall and Open Air Theater" drawing from the 1912 San Francisco
Architectural Club competition. It also contains numerous drawings from projects completed with Arthur Brown, Jr., including
detail and shop drawings of balustrades, relating to projects such as the Pasadena City Hall and San Francisco City Hall,
as well as drawings of lighting fixtures, possibly from the Federal Office Building (San Francisco).
Title: Weihe, Frick & Kruse Collection
Identifier/Call Number: (1978-3),
Contributing Institution: Environmental Design Archives
Title: Bakewell & Brown Collection
Identifier/Call Number: (19XX-11),
Contributing Institution: Environmental Design Archives