John Bakewell Jr. (1872–1963) was an American architect, based in

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, California, U.S.

Biography

John Bakewell Jr. was born on August 28, 1872, in

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, Kansas, U.S. He studied architecture at

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, and

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in Paris. Arthur Brown Jr. had been his classmate in at École des Beaux-Arts. Working with

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, in 1905 they formed the architectural firm of Bakewell and Brown, which designed many San Francisco Bay Area landmarks. Following the dissolution of Bakewell and Brown in 1927, Bakewell formed the new partnership of Bakewell and Weihe with longtime employee Ernest Weihe.

List of work

* Arequipa Sanatorium, Fairfax, CA, 1911 *

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, 1926–1928 *

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, 1912–1915 * Old Berkeley City Hall, now the Maudelle Shirek Building,

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, 1908–1909 * Pasadena City Hall,

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, 1925–1927 * St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle,

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, 1926–1930. Incompletely constructed. *

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, French Indo-Chinese Pavilion,

, 1937–1939. Demolished 1939. * Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG & E), Headquarters Building,

, 1924–1926 *

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, Palace of Horticulture,

, 1913–1915 * Regents of the University of California Office Building,

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, 1910–1911. Demolished 1983. * Sacramento Valley Irrigation Company, Offices, 1910 *

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, Potrero Terrace Housing Development,

, 1941–1942 *

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, War Memorial Veterans' Building,

, 1922–1932 * John D. Sloat Monument,

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, 1907 * At

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: ** John Henry Meyer House,

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, 1920. Now used as the Stanford Provost's residence. **

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, 1922-1923 ** Encina Commons, 1923 ** Encina Gymnasium, 1915 ** Cecil H. Green Library, 1919 ** Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, Hoover Tower, 1940–1941 ** Stanford Memorial Auditorium, 1937 **

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, 1921 ** "Old Union" student union, 1915 ** Toyon Hall, 1922-1923 * Temple Emanu-El,

, 1926 *

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, 1936 * W.C. Van Antwerp House ("Danvers House"), Burlingame, CA

References

External links

John Bakewell Jr.
at the Pacific Coast Architecture Database

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