Resume

Draftsman, McKim, Mead and White, Architects, New York, NY, 1895-1898.

Partner, Bliss and Faville, Architects, San Francisco, CA, 1898-1925.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA).

President, AIA, San Francisco Chapter, 1915.

Bliss was active on the Architectural Committee of the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), San Francisco, CA, 1915.

First Vice-President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), 1921.

Member, AIA, Board of Directors, 1919-1920.

President of the AIA, national administration, 1922-1924. Faville was the first California architect and the first from the West Coast to hold these influential offices in the AIA.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA).

Archives

Drawings by Bliss And Faville were represented in the "AIA San Francisco, a Chapter of the American Institute of Architects: Centennial Drawing Collection (ca. 1930-1976)" held at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Environmental Design Archives. (See University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Environmental Design Archives,Accessed 07/21/2014.)

College

B.S. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1895.

Relocation

Born in California, 1866, Bliss lived for much of his youth in Western New York State; he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, graduating in 1895. At MIT, Faville met Walter D. Bliss and the two then worked for the august McKim, Mead and White in New York, NY, for about 3 years before returning to CA in 1898. He lived and worked in and around San Francisco Bay for the remainder of his life.

He died in Marin County, and was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA.

Biographical Notes

The California Death Index stated his birth date to have been on 11/13/1865, his death, 12/15/1947. The birth date recorded on Faville's US Passport Application of 12/03/1924 was 11/13/1866.