Bliss & Faville architectural drawings, 1911

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Title:: Bliss & Faville architectural drawings
Dates:: 1911
Creators:: Bliss & Faville., Bliss, Walter Danforth, and Faville, William Baker
Extent:: 9.0 Linear feet Two flat file folders, two oversize rolls
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Scope and content:: This collection contains blueprints for Bliss & Faville buildings.
Biographical / historical:: Walter Bliss (1872-1956) and William Faville (1866-1946) were partners in the architecture firm Bliss & Favillle from 1898 until 1925, working mainly in northern California and San Francisco in particular. Both Bliss and Faville were educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after they graduated they worked for the New York based firm McKim, Mead & White. They moved to San Francisco in 1898 and formed their architecture firm. Bliss & Faville were known for residential work, but after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, they received many commercial and civic projects as well.
Custodial history:: Blueprints were Found In Collections (FIC), possibly as part of the David Gebhard private collection, 2019.
Physical location:: ADC regular / flat files misc. ADC oversize rolls
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Julia Larson
Date Prepared:: 6/3/2019
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-07-23T08:47-0700

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Location of this collection:: UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US