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Emile Schroeder Lemme, Joseph Cather Newsom, Samuel Newsom
Firm Notes
The Newsom Brothers worked in both Northern and Southern California during the 1870s and 1880s.
In 1877, the Newsom Brothers maintained their architectural office at 321 California Street. (See San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1877, p. 465.)Newsom and Newsom had its architectural office at 504 Kearny Street in San Francisco, CA, in 1883. (See the San Francisco, California, City Directory, 1883, p. 1106.) The firm was practicing in Oakland, CA, c. 1884.
Samuel Newsom had a San Francisco partnership with Frederick Herman Meyer (1876-1961) between 1898 and 1900.
Joseph and Samuel reformed their partnership in 1901, calling it "Newsom, Newsom and Newsom, Architects." The name returned to Newsom and Newsom in 1902.
PCAD id: 446
| Name | Date | City | State |
|---|
| 1407 Carroll Avenue House, Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, CA | 1888-1889 | Los Angeles | CA |
| 2470 Broadway House, San Francisco, CA | 1902 | San Francisco | CA |
| Boyd, T.H., House, Eureka, CA | 1885 | Eureka | CA |
| Carson, J. Milton, House, Eureka, CA | 1897 | Eureka | CA |
| Carson, William McKendrie, House, Eureka, CA | 1884-1886 | Eureka | CA |
| City of Berkeley, City Hall #1, Berkeley, CA | 1884 | Berkeley | CA |
| City of Gilroy, City Hall, Downtown, Gilroy, CA | 1904-1905 | Gilroy | CA |
| Fort Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA | 1870 | Los Angeles | CA |
| Hildreth, Edward and Sarah Carpenter, House, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA | 1889 | Los Angeles | CA |
| Hotel Glendale #1, Downtown, Glendale, CA | 1886-1887 | Glendale | CA |
| Murphy House, San Francisco, CA | 1885 | San Francisco | CA |
| Nichols, Henry E., House, Oakland, CA | | Oakland | CA |
| Pinney House Hotel, Sierra Madre, CA | 1887 | Sierra Madre | CA |
| Sessions, Charles H., and Katherine E., House, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA | 1888 | Los Angeles | CA |
| Spreckels, Rudolph, House, San Francisco, CA | | San Francisco | CA |
| Superior Court of California, County of Napa, Courthouse, Napa, CA | 1878 | Napa | CA |
National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Living Spaces", America's Forgotten Architecture, 72-73, 1976. "Carson, O.W., House, Eureka plans prepared", California Architect and Building News, 114, 6/1884. McGrew, Patrick, "Sessions Residence", Landmarks of Los Angeles, 42-43, 1994. Gebhard, David, "Newsom, Samuel, and Newsom, Joseph Cather", Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 3: 292-298, 1982. Folsom, Merrill, More Great American Mansions and Their Stories, 165-168, 1967. 
