W. H. Weeks drawings, 1925-1926, 1930

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Summary

Creators:
Weeks, William Henry
Extent:
6 Linear Feet (2 flat file folders)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

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.

Background

Scope and content:

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. The W.H. Weeks drawings of the Montecito Union School building on San Ysidro Road in Montecito span 3 linear feet and date from 1925-1926. The file contains 14 blueprints with annotations for site plan, floor plans, sections, elevations, interior elevations, details, and full size details of the school building.

Biographical / historical:

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 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.

Physical location:
2 Flat File Folders/ADC - flat files misc.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

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.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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