Weeks and Day, Architects (Partnership)

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William Peyton Day, Maury I. Diggs, Edward Francis Flanders, Charles Peter Weeks

Active 1916-1930

Firm Notes

The architectural firm of Weeks and Day operated in San Francisco, CA, from 1916 until 1930. Previously, Charles Peter Weeks (1870-1928) had practiced alone in San Francisco.

After Weeks's death in 1928, William Peyton Day (1883-1966) continued calling the firm "Weeks and Day" until 1930. Day continued to engage in architectural work, under his own name, until 1953.

PCAD id: 112

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Brocklebank Apartments, Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA1926San FranciscoCA
California Theatre, San Jose, CA1926-1927San JoseCA
Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco Chronicle Office Building #4, South of Market, San Francisco, CA1924San FranciscoCA
Dufwin Theatre, Oakland, CA1928OaklandCA
Fox Building, San Diego, CA1928-1929San DiegoCA
Fox Theatre, Downtown, Oakland, CA1927-1928OaklandCA
Fox West Coast Theatres, Fox Theatre, San Diego, CA 1928-1929San DiegoCA
Hopkins, Mark, Hotel, San Francisco, CA1926San FranciscoCA
Hotel Sainte Claire, Downtown, San Jose, CA1925-1926San JoseCA
Huntington Apartments, Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA1923San FranciscoCA
Lee, Don, Building, San Francisco, CA1921San FranciscoCA
Loew's State Building and Theatre, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1920-1921Los AngelesCA
Macdonough Estate Building, San FranciscoSan FranciscoCA
Magnin, I., Department Store Oakland, CAOaklandCA
Montgomery, T.S., House, San Jose, CA1927San JoseCA
Peninsula Theatre, Burlingame, CA1926BurlingameCA
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Warehouse, San Francisco, CA
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, CA1925Palo AltoCA
Woolworth, F.W., Company, Department Store, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1921Los AngelesCA
Yosemite Theatre Building, Civic Center, Stockton, CA 1891-1892StocktonCA

Publications

"Dufwin Theatre, Oakland, CA", American Architect, 136: 223-227, 9/1929. "The Circus Bar, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco", American Architect, 148: 2641, 45-46, 01/1936. Breeze, Carla, American Art Deco Architecture and Regionalism, 32, 2003. Naylor, David, American Picture Palaces The Architecture of Fantasy, 63-65, 219, 1981. Naylor, David, American Picture Palaces The Architecture of Fantasy, 67, 218, 1981. "Montgomery, T.S., House plans", Architect & Engineer, 105, 11/1927. "Weeks, Charles Peter trip to Southern California", Architect & Engineer, 112, 7/1927. Day, William Peyton, "The Macdonough Estate Building", Architect & Engineer of California, 52-57, 12/1907. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 639-640, 1970. "$300,000 San Francisco Plant To Be Built", Building Review, XXIV: 5, 58, 1923-11. Ypma, Herbert, Hip Hotels, 206-213, 2003. "Advertisement: Skylines by Otis", Journal of the American Institiute of Architects, 8: 4, 146, 10/1947. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Loew's State Theatre", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 236, 1994. "New Theaters to Rise Here", Los Angeles Times, 1-2, 1920-07-04. "New theater to rise here", Los Angeles Times, part 5: 1-2, 7/4/1920. "Theatres of Los Angeles including Hollywood and more.", Marquee, 30: 1, 4-29, 1998. "Dufwin Home Is Completed on 17th St.", Oakland Tribune, 34, 1928-10-07. "Dufwin Theatre plans", Pacific Coast Architect, 27-28, 1/1929. "'Inspiration' and 'Wisdom,' Figures for Supreme Court and State Library Building", Pencil Points, 10: 348, 1929-05. Sherwood, David C., "Solution File: Symphony Towers", Urban Land, 53: 4, 70-71, 1994-04.
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