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Finding Aid to the Bakewell & Brown Photograph Collection, 1897-1933
BANC PIC 2000.078
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Collection Title: Bakewell & Brown photograph collection
Date (inclusive): 1897-1933
Collection Number: BANC PIC 2000.078
Creators :
Bakewell, John, 1872-1963
Brown, Arthur, 1874-1957
Bakewell & Brown, Architects (San Francisco, Calif.)
Brown, Arthur, 1874-1957
Bakewell & Brown, Architects (San Francisco, Calif.)
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 box, 10 oversize folders, 2 albums (ca. 300 photographic prints and 30 drawings)
Linear feet: approximately 2
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The Bakewell & Brown photograph collection contains images of several major
buildings designed by the architectural firm of Bakewell & Brown, including an album of construction
progress photographs of Pasadena City Hall. Also pictured are some residences, including Bakewell's own
residence, portraits of John Bakewell, and reproductions of John Bakewell's student drawings.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice
may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the
Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in
writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000.
Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner. See:
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Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is
restricted to research and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Bakewell & Brown Photograph Collection, BANC PIC 2000.078, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Arthur Brown, Jr. papers, BANC MSS 81/142
Arthur Brown, Jr. photograph collection, BANC PIC 1981.161
The New City Hall, San Francisco, CA, 1915, BANC PIC 1905.12274 - ALB
(http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf38700828)
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public
access catalog.
Architects--California--San Francisco--Pictorial works
Architecture--California--20th century--Photographs
Bakewell & Brown, Architects (San
Francisco, Calif)--Pictorial works
San Francisco City Hall--Pictorial works
Pasadena City Hall--Pictorial works
The Bakewell & Brown photograph collection was transferred to The Bancroft Library by the University
of California, Santa Barbara in 2000, along with related material that was added to the Arthur Brown, Jr.
papers (BANC MSS 81/142). This material was originally donated to the University of California, Santa Barbara
in 1973 by the heirs of John Bakewell, Jr.
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the folder level.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2006.
The architectural firm of Bakewell & Brown was formed in 1905 by John Bakewell, Jr and Arthur Brown,
Jr in San Francisco, California. Bakewell and Brown had been students together at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in
Paris from 1897-1901. Arthur Brown, Jr. acted as the design partner in the firm, while John Bakewell, Jr.
handled the administrative and financial tasks.
The firm thrived in its early years, largely as a result of the opportunities afforded architects in the
rebuilding efforts after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Early architectural projects include
Berkeley City Hall (1907), the interiors of the City of Paris department store (1908), and several residences in
Oakland. In 1912, Bakewell & Brown won a major competition for the design of San Francisco City Hall.
Completed in 1915, San Francisco City Hall remains the masterwork of Bakewell & Brown.
Many significant commissions followed Bakewell & Brown's winning of the San Francisco City Hall
competition. In 1913, the firm was hired as the design architect and master planner for Stanford University
campus, positions they held until 1942. By 1915 Bakewell & Brown were responsible for the Palace of
Horticulture at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco as well as the San Diego station
for Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. In the following years, they designed the Green Library for Stanford
University (1919), the Pacific Gas & Electric office building in San Francisco (1922-1926), Pasadena
City Hall (1923-1928), Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco (1923-1928), and the California School of Fine Arts
(1924-1928, now the San Francisco Art Institute).
The firm of Bakewell & Brown dissolved in 1927, although the two former partners continued to
collaborate on many later projects, most notably several buildings on the Stanford University campus.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Bakewell & Brown photograph collection contains images of several major buildings designed by the
architectural firm of Bakewell & Brown, including an album of construction progress photographs of
Pasadena City Hall. Also pictured are some residences, including Bakewell's own residence, portraits of John
Bakewell, and reproductions of John Bakewell's student drawings.