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style championed by Maybeck. Early among them were two redwood framed "double houses" for Stanford University in 1908, and the only fraternity house they designed de novo, the Beta Chi Chapter House of Sigma Nu in 1910 (razed by the University in 1991 despite student and alumni efforts to give it
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historic designation and restore it). They later designed additions to Ernest Coxhead's 1893 Beta Theta Pi house they had lived in as undergraduates, now a listed Berkeley landmark.
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Brown's last works were primarily at UC Berkeley, where Brown served as campus planner and chief architect from 1936 to 1950. His principal buildings there include Sproul Hall, the
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Bakewell and Brown also designed the Byzantine-inspired Temple Emmanuel (1926) at Lake St. and Arguello Blvd. in San Francisco, and the Pasadena City Hall (1927).
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is an important Modernist landmark in the Bay Area. Coit Tower was the site of some of the first public works murals executed under the
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years between 1932 and 1934. The new buildings were to be designed to reflect the "dignity and power of the nation."
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Most of Brown's later San Francisco works employed a stripped-down classicism. The poured-concrete
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In addition to their well-known monumental works, Bakewell and Brown designed several homes in the
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The firm went on to design a series of familiar San Francisco landmarks, and many buildings at
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as Bakewell and Brown, along with later works after the partnership dissolved in 1927.
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and designer of many of its landmarks. He is known for his work with
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for which they are best known. Brown also designed the city's
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as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1953.
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included Brown among the designers and craftsmen in his
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and Veterans Building, the former in collaboration with
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Their first commissions included the interior of the
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Index

Arthur Brown Jr. (murderer)
Image of Arthur Brown Jr. in 1912
Oakland, California
San Mateo County, California
San Francisco
John Bakewell Jr.
Beta Theta Pi
University of California, Berkeley
Bernard Maybeck
Paris
École des Beaux-Arts
Victor Laloux
City of Paris department store
Berkeley, California
San Francisco City Hall
War Memorial Opera House
G. Albert Lansburgh

Arts and Crafts
Stanford University
Art Moderne
Coit Tower
Telegraph Hill
Public Works Administration
Diego Rivera
fresco

Washington, D.C.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Department of Labor Building

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