PCAD - Church, Thomas D. , Landscape Architect

Aerial view of the Parkmerced Apartments, San Fransico, 2013; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Derrick Coetzee

Donnell House and Garden, Plan and Elevation from Calisphere.org

Lawrence Halprin's Plan of the Donnell Garden, Sonoma, from Calisphere.org

Thomas Church Plan of the Decker McAllister Garden, Hillsborough, 1947; from the Calisphere and the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design Archives

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Thomas Dolliver Church, Harry A. Thomsen Jr., Hollingsworth Leland Vaughan, William Wilson Wurster

Later known as Thomas D. Church and Associates (c.1961)

PCAD id: 548

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA	1954-1985	Bainbridge Island	WA
Bradley, John, House, San Mateo, CA
Coleman, James V., House, San Francisco, CA	1962	San Francisco	CA
Donnell, Dewey and Jean, House and Garden, Sonoma, CA	1947-1948	Sonoma	CA
Flood, James, House, Woodside, CA	1941	Woodside	CA
Henderson, Wellington, House, Hillsborough, CA	1931-1932	Hillsborough	CA
Hooker, John, House, San Mateo, CA		San Mateo	CA
Martin, Charles O., House, Aptos, CA	1947-1948	Aptos	CA
Martin, Charles O., House, Garden, Aptos, CA	1952	Aptos	CA
McAllister, Decker, House, Hillsborough, CA		Hillsborough	CA
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Metlife), Parkmerced Apartments, San Francisco, CA	1941-1951	Los Angeles	CA
Orrick House, Pebble Beach, CA	1921	Pebble Beach	CA
Peery, H.T., House, Palo Alto, CA		Palo Alto	CA
Pope, George A., Jr., House, Hillsborough, CA	1936	Hillsborough	CA
San Francisco Housing Authority, Valencia Gardens #1, San Francisco, CA	1942-1943	San Francisco	CA
Stanford University, Book Store #2, Stanford, CA	1959-1960	Stanford	CA
Stanford University, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA	1953-1955	Stanford	CA
Stanford University, Stanford Industrial Park, Stanford, CA	1951	Stanford	CA
Sullivan, Jeremiah (Jerd) F. and Josephine, House, Saratoga, CA	1939	Saratoga	CA
United States Government, Postal Service (USPS), Post Office, Stanford University, Stanford, CA	1960	Stanford	CA
University of California, Davis (UCD), Plant Sciences Building, Davis, CA	1949
deGuigné, Christian III, House, Hillsborough, CA	1914	Hillsborough	CA

Publications

Church, Thomas D., "A California Solution", American Home, 09/1946. "Translucent Bank", Architectural Forum, 117: 17, 07/1962. "New and Old on the Campus", Architectural Record, 129: 4, 145-148, 04/1961. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Henderson House", Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 131-132, 1985. "California Nursery Company Advertisement", Book of Homes, 18: 6, 1961. Mock, Elizabeth, Built in USA, 1932-1944, 58-59, 1945. Bricker, Lauren Weiss, "History in Motion: A Glance at Historic Preservation in California", Future Anterior, 1: 2, 9-10, Fall 2004. Dustan, Alice L., "Two Levels are more exciting than one", House Beautiful, 89: 8, 69-70, 08/1947. Dustan, Alice L., "How not to be a Goldfish", House Beautiful, 89: 11, 210, 11/1947. Mid-Century Architecture in America, 154-155, 1961. Hauxner, Malene, Open to the Sky, 111, 2003. Pencil Points, 26-36, 01/1944. Walker, Peter J., "A Personal Approach to Design", Process Architecture, 85, 12, 1989. Treib, Marc, The Donnell and ALCOA Gardens: Two Modern California Landscapes, 2004. Thomas Church Landscape Architect, 2003. Riess, Suzanne B., Thomas Church, Landscape Architect : oral history transcript, 1975-1978. Treib, Marc, "3 Maturity and Modernity", Thomas Church, Landscape Architect Designing a Modern California Landscape, 90, 101-112, 2003. Treib, Marc, "3 Maturity and Modernity", Thomas Church, Landscape Architect Designing a Modern California Landscape, 101-108, 2003. Vance, Mary A., Thomas D. Church, Landscape Architect : a Bibliography, 1980. Eckbo, Garrett, "Stanford Medical Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.", Urban Landscape Design, 46, 1964. Casselman, Ben, "House of the Week Putt In/Putt Out", Wall Street Journal, W6, 07/14/2006.

Exhibitions

Built in U.S.A.: 1932-1944