Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. (1880 – December 1937) was an American architect, known for his residential and commercial work in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Early life
Kenneth MacDonald Jr. was born 1880 in
Louisville
Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city; however, by populatio ...
, Kentucky.
His father was an architect.
MacDonald trained at
École des Beaux-Arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
in Paris, as did his early architecture partner
George Adrian Applegarth.
Career
In 1906, he moved to San Francisco after school.
The firm of MacDonald & Applegarth collaboration starting in 1907 and they worked together on over 30 residences in San Francisco, including the
Spreckels Mansion (1912) in San Francisco owned by Adolph B. Spreckels.
MacDonald was partner in several design firms including
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
's MacDonald & Applegarth (1907–1912), Couchot & MacDonald (1912–1923), and his solo firm in Los Angeles (1923–).
His office for Couchot & MacDonald were located at 234 Pine Street, San Francisco.
Kenneth MacDonald Jr. died in Los Angeles in December 1937.
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20th-century American architects
1880 births
1937 deaths
Architects from Louisville, Kentucky
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Architects from San Francisco
Architects from Los Angeles
American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts