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Male, US, born 1895-04-10, died 1967-10-24
Associated with the firms network
Dailey, Gardner A., Architect; Dailey, Gardner A., and Associates, Architects
Résumé
Lieutenant / Captain, 9th Aero Squadron, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War I, 1917-1919. He was released from military service on 04/07/1919. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT. USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019, accessed 02/25/2022.)
Assistant Engineer, Sonora Development Company, Mexico, 1919.
Principal, Gardner A. Dailey, Architect, San Francisco, CA, 1926-1967. Dailey was said to have designed more than 200 houses in his lifetime. In 1955, his office was located at 442 Post Street in San Francisco. (See "Dailey, Gardner A., " American Architects Directory, 1956, George S. Koyl, ed., [New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1955], p. 122.)
Teaching
Visiting Critic in Design, Yale University, New Haven, CT, one term.
Professional Activities
Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Northern California Chapter, San Francisco, CA, 1930-1967.
Member, San Francisco Planning Commission for a four year term, 1944-1948.
President, Citizens Master Planning Committee for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 1941.
Registered Architect in the States of CA and HI, 1956. (See "Dailey, Gardner A., " American Architects Directory, 1956, George S. Koyl, ed., [New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1955], p. 122.) Dailey also reported being a Registered Architect in the states of CA and HI in 1962.
Dailey served as a Consulting Architect to Stanford University in the 1960s.
Professional Awards
Recipient, House Beautiful Magazine Small House Competition, First Prize for the Mr. and Mrs. William Lowe, Jr., House, Woodside, CA, 1936.
Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1948.
Philippine Institute of Architects College of Honorary Fellow, 1961.
Archives
The University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Environmental Design Archives maintains the Gardner Dailey Archive, including drawings and photos by Roger Sturtevant. UCB CED Archives tel: (510) 642-5124 (2006).
College
Coursework, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1919.
Coursework, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1920.
Coursework, Healds Engineering School, San Francisco, CA, 1921-1922.
Relocation
Dailey was born in Saint Paul, MN, of Irish descent. At age five, Gardner lived with his parents in an Iron Range city, Eveleth, in the Missabe Mountain Township, Saint Louis County, MN. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Missabe Mountain, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Page: 48; Enumeration District: 0302; FHL microfilm: 1240791, accessed 02/25/2022.)
By 1910, the Daileys lived in Ward #5 of Long Beach, CA, at 829 Knoll Park Circle. The US Census of that year indicated that Gardner's father Frank made a living from his "own income." (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Long Beach Ward 5, Los Angeles, California; Roll: T624_85; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 0045; FHL microfilm: 1374098, accessed 02/25/2022.)
He resided at 283 Telegraph Hill Avenue in 1938. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1938, accessed 02/25/2022.)
Gardner A. Dailey died in San Francisco, CA at the age of 72. His death was a suicide, when he jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge. Due to his military service, he was buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery.
Parents
His father Frank Dailey (born c. 10/1853 in PA) worked as a bookeeper in 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: Missabe Mountain, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Page: 48; Enumeration District: 0302; FHL microfilm: 1240791, accessed 02/25/2022.)
His mother Emma M. Gardner (born c. 05/1860 in NY) managed the household. She had only one child, Gardner. Frank and Emma married c. 1882.
Spouse
He wed Lucille Reborie Downey (born 11/11/1911-d. 03/24/1983) in Manhattan, NY, in 1961. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan, accessed 02/25/2022.)
Biographical Notes
Dailey traveled in Europe and North Africa, 1926.
Dailey, like William W. Wurster and a number of other Bay Area architects, traveled to Europe in 1937.
In 1938, Dailey was a registered Republican voter. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1938, accessed 02/25/2022.)
SSN: 563-52-4048, state SSN issued: CA (1956).
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