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GEORGE KELHAM

BERNARD MAYBECK

JULIA MORGAN

TIMOTHY LUDWIG PFLUEGER

ALBERT PISSIS

WILLIS POLK

REID BROTHERS

BAY AREA ARCHITECTS

GEORGE KELHAM

BIOGRAPHY

George Kelham
Born: Manchester, Massachusetts | 1871
Educated: Harvard University and l'Ecole des Beaux Arts
Died: 1936

SUMMARY

Began his career with Trowbridge & Livingston in New York. The firm sent him to San Francisco in 1906 to supervise The Palace Hotel , one of its projects.

Remained in San Francisco and went on to design many landmarks, including the Old Main Library ,(1916) old Federal Reserve (1924), Standard Oil Building (1922), Russ Building (1927), and Shell Building (1929).

Also designed Powell Library (1929), one of the first four buildings on the campus of UCLA.

Succeeded John Galen Howard as university architect for the University of California at Berkeley from 1927 - 1938. During his tenure a new plan for the campus based on Howard's plan was developed and several buildings including Bowles Hall, Cowell Hospital, Davis Hall, Harmon Gymnasium, Minor Hall, and Sproul Hall were constructed.

Chief architect of the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition.