Partner, Salfield and Kohlberg, Architects, San Francisco, CA, c. 1889.

Architectural historian, Harold Kirker, said of Salfield (and his partner Hermann Kohlberg): "Both David Salfield and Hermann Kohlberg arrived in California in the eighties, the latter with some years service as a government architect and a too accurate memory of the Teutonic Beaux-Arts villas of Frankfurt or Stuttgart." (See Harold Kirker, California's Architectural Frontier, [Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith Publishers, Incorporated, 1986], p. 116.)