Finding Aid to the Bakewell & Brown Photograph Collection, 1897-1933
Finding Aid written by Betsy Frederick-Rothwell, February 2007
Funding for processing this collection was provided by The Getty Foundation
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
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Finding Aid to the Bakewell & Brown Photograph Collection, 1897-1933
Collection Number: BANC PIC 2000.078
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Funding for processing this collection was provided by The Getty Foundation
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Betsy Frederick-Rothwell, February 2007
- Date Completed:
-
September 2007
© 2007 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
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.)
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.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bakewell & Brown Photograph Collection, BANC PIC 2000.078, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Related Collections
Arthur Brown, Jr. papers, BANC MSS 81/142
Arthur Brown, Jr. photograph collection, BANC PIC 1981.161
Indexing Terms
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
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
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.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2006.
Biographical Information
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.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 1
Portraits
[circa 1914]
Physical Description:
2 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Small photo: JBJr, ABJr, John Baur, JL Bourgeois, Large photo: JBJr & ABJr.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 2
Pasadena City Hall
[circa 1927]
Physical Description:
39 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Small photo: JBJr, ABJr, John Baur, JL Bourgeois, Large photo: JBJr & ABJr.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 3
San Francisco City Hall
[circa 1913-1927]
Physical Description:
9 photos.
Scope and Content Note
B&W photoprints and cyanotypes (interior & exterior); construction photos, publicity
photos; some G Moulin 1927, 1 print War Memorial: perspective view of memorial court, 1923.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 4
San Francisco City Hall, ground breaking ceremony
1913
Physical Description:
13 photos.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 5
San Diego Railroad Station
[1915]
Physical Description:
8 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Interior and exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 6
Stanford University
undated
Physical Description:
8 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cyanotypes: 1927. B&W photos: Green Library, Old Union, gymnasium, pre-1906 campus view (main
quad).
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 7
PG&E Building
undated
Physical Description:
5 photos.
Scope and Content Note
B&W and cyanotypes, exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 8
Temple Emanu-El
[circa 1925]
Physical Description:
9 photos, 4 drawings.
Scope and Content Note
B&W and cyanotypes, interior & exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 9
Calif. School of Fine Arts
undated
Physical Description:
3 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Exterior & table for library.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 10
Burlingame Country Club
undated
Physical Description:
2 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Interior and exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 11
Berkeley City Hall
undated
Physical Description:
2 drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Sheet 10 & perspective.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 12
New Ferry Depot Office, Wells Fargo & Co Express, San Francisco, Calif.
circa 1905
Physical Description:
1 photo.
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified photo. Title derived from lettering on building.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 13
St. Joseph's Hospital
Physical Description:
1 photo.
Scope and Content Note
Exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 14
Clark Residence
Physical Description:
2 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Cyanotypes. Labeled incorrectly as location "Carmel" - house is in Pebble Beach. Exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 15
Lent Residence, Woodside
Physical Description:
4 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 16
Filoli
Physical Description:
2 photos, 1 negative.
Scope and Content Note
Under construction (+ negative) & garage (cyanotype).
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 17
Redlands Railroad
Physical Description:
10 photos.
Scope and Content Note
All construction photos.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 18
Bakewell House
Physical Description:
5 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Gardens & views of San Francisco from house, by Moulin.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 19
Unidentified residences
Physical Description:
6 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified residence (1), interior -- Unidentified residence (2), exterior (x 2) -- Unidentified
residence (3), exterior -- Unidentified residence (4), exterior -- Unidentified residence (5), exterior --
Unidentified residence (6), exterior -- Unidentified residence (7), exterior (x 2) -- Unidentified residence
(8), exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 20
Various residences
Physical Description:
14 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Walter Arnstein Residence, exterior -- A.S. MacDonald Residence, exterior -- Robert W. Miller Residence,
exterior -- Pope, George Residence, exterior (x 4) -- VanAntwerp (Fagan) Residence, interior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 21
Various buildings
Physical Description:
3 photos, 2 drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Lane Hospital drawing -- Olympic Club (Post & Mason), exterior -- San Francisco Architectural Club
atelier, drawing; "A Federal Building for a Small Town" -- Puerto Rico Capitol competition drawing --
California Building at San Diego Panama-California Exposition by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, exterior.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 22
Miscellaneous projects
Physical Description:
10 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Raphael Weill Memorial (at Legion of Honor) -- City of Paris Decorative Studios (5 small cards) -- Trinity
Church, David McClure sculpted pulpit -- PPIE: Horticulture, model of sculptural detail (arched with 5
figures, central female figure with wheat) -- Garber, John Memorial -- Piedmont Heights, entrance
gates/pylons.
Location: 2000.078--PIC, Folder 23
Duplicates
Physical Description:
20 photos.
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 1
Mills College dormitory
1917
Physical Description:
2 drawings.
Scope and Content Note
First & second floor plans.
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 2
San Francisco City Hall
Physical Description:
2 drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Ground plan, Polk Street elevation (cyanotype).
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 3
Stanford University: general plan, drawing
1920
Physical Description:
1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
"Plan of existing and proposed new buildings".
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 4
Portraits
1915
Physical Description:
2 photos.
Scope and Content Note
Jean Louis Bourgeois -- McKim, Mead & White (etching).
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 5
Disbound album #3
Physical Description:
24 photos, 14 drawings.
Scope and Content Note
14 Ecole drawings of John Bakewell (Eleve du M. Paulin) and other Ecole students. 24 photos: reference
images of Italy and France.
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 6
Disbound album #4
Physical Description:
8 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
1 Ecole drawing. 8 photos: reference images of Italy and France.
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 7
Disbound album #4
Physical Description:
12 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
1 portrait of John Bakewell -- 1 drawing (cyanotype) Christopher Columbus memorial lighthouse competition
-- 6 photos of Guadalajara (St. Monica) -- 1 photo view of [Bakewell Residence] and Art Institute -- 2
photos Bakewell Residence exterior (front & rear views) -- 1 photo Clark Residence in Pebble Beach
-- 1 photo of mural "Carpenter".
Location: 2000.078--AX, Folder 8
Disbound album #4
Scope and Content Note
1 portrait of John Bakewell (older) -- 1 group photo of Red Cross/Army unit in front of "College of Fine
and Applied Arts: Department of Architecture" John Bakewell is 5th from right in 2nd row -- 1 drawing of
John Bakewell portrait -- 1 posed group photo with Arthur Brown, Jr, John Bakewell and 4 others at "The
Chutes, San Francisco" -- 1 photo of man skiing -- 2 photos of [Diego Rivera] murals in process -- 1 photo
PPIE: Horticulture -- 1 photo Bakewell Residence (1933) -- 1 photo [view from Bakewell Residence] (1933) --
2 prints "St. Gilles-du-Gard" -- 1 photo "Guanajuato window next Valenciana"[?] -- 1 Ecole drawing of H.W.
Corbett, Eleve du Pascal.
Location: 2000.078--B, Folder 1
Location: 2000.078--B, Folder 2
Student work: Episcopal Throne
Location: 2000.078 v.1--ALB
Pasadena City Hall
1926-1927
Physical Description:
34 photos, 1 drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Orndorff Construction Co, General Contractors. Bi-weekly construction photos Jan 26, 1926 - Apr 11,
1927.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
City of Paris [Department Store]
Scope and Content Note
Interior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
City of Paris [Department Store]
Scope and Content Note
Interior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Berkeley City Hall
Scope and Content Note
Under construction.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
McKee Residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior, front.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
McKee Residence
Scope and Content Note
Interior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
McKee Residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior, rear.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Hammer, George Residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Hammer, George Residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
[Hammer, George Residence]
Scope and Content Note
Interior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Bank building competition, Oakland
Scope and Content Note
Drawing.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Selfridge Memorial Plaque
1908
Scope and Content Note
Model.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Selfridge Memorial Plaque
1908
Scope and Content Note
Model.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Unidentified residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior, brown shingle with brick terrace.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Martens, F.C. Residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior.
Location: 2000.078 v.2--fALB
Martens, F.C. Residence
Scope and Content Note
Exterior.
