Clinton Day (March 17, 1847 – January 11, 1916) was an American

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, active on the West Coast of the United States.

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Day was born on March 17, 1847, in

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, New York City; and he moved to California when 8 years old. His grandfather,

Jeremiah Day Jeremiah Day (August 3, 1773 – August 22, 1867) was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846). Early life Day was the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Abigail (Noble) Osborn Day, who were descendan ...

, was president of

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, and his father, Sherman Day, was surveyor-general of California and one of the founders of the

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, predecessor to the

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. Day graduated from the College of California in 1868, and received his MA degree from the same institution in 1874. (He later received an honorary LLD from the college in 1910.) In 1875, he married Grace Wakefield from

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, and they had one daughter. As an architect, he designed some of San Francisco's finest buildings, including the

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building, Union Trust building, and

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department store; and a number of fine houses in

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, including the Treadwell Mansion. He designed Architecture Building and Metallurgical Laboratory at the

. He was a

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. Clinton was the great-grandson of American founding father

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List of work

Treadwell Mansion Treadwell Mansion and Carriage House, is a historic mansion with carriage house built in in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, California, U.S.. With The two buildings used to be part of the campus for California College of the Arts, from ...

(), Oakland, California; NRHP-listed, a California Historical Landmark, and an Oakland Designated Landmark *

building (1896), Union Square, San Francisco, California; demolished in 1981 * Agriculture Building at

(1887), Berkeley, California; destroyed by fire in 1897 * Ella Nichols Park House (1888), 1408 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, California * Budd Hall at University of California, Berkeley (1887), Berkeley, California; demolished in 1933 * Golden Sheaf Bakery (1905), 2069–2071 Addison Street, Berkeley, California; NRHP-listed, a California Historical Landmark, and a Berkeley Landmark.

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First Church Berkeley UCC

Stable at East Oakland, 1884

Bancroft Building

City of Paris Building
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