John Wright (Architect)

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Male, Scotland/US, born 1830, died 1915-05-23

Associated with the firms network

Wright and Sanders, Architects; Wright, John, Architect

Professional History

Résumé

Principal, John Wright, Architect, San Francisco, CA.

Partner, Wright and [George H.] Sanders, San Francisco, CA, c. 1868- .

Professional Activities

John Wright served as the President of the San Francisco Chapter of Architects in 1882. (See "San Francisco Chapter of Architects,"California Architect and Building News,vol. III, no. 6, 06/1882, p. 79.)

Personal

Born and schooled in Scotland; Came to the US in 1866, according to the largely unreliable historian Henry Withey, perhaps from British Columbia; apparently, in 1864, Wright and Sanders had already collaborated on the Richard Carr House in the James Bay residential tract of Victoria, BC, Canada.

PCAD id: 832

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
1st Congregational Church #1,Union Square, San Francisco, CA 1871San FranciscoCA
1st Methodist Church #1, San Francisco, CA1870San FranciscoCA
California Insurance Company, Office Building #4, San Francisco, CASan FranciscoCA
Carr, Richard, House, Victoria, BCVictoriaBC
Eagle Building, San Francisco, CA1884San FranciscoCA
Episcopal Diocese of California, Saint Stephen's Church, San Francisco, CA1881San FranciscoCA
Hopkins, Mark, Jr., and Mary Sherwood, House, Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA 1878San FranciscoCA
Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), Hall #1, San Francisco, CA 1884San FranciscoCA
Pacific Improvement Company, Hotel Del Monte #1, Monterey, CA 1880-1880MontereyCA
Plymouth Congregational Church, San Francisco, CA1882San FranciscoCA
Presbyterian Synod of the Pacific, San Francisco Theological Seminary #3, Scott Library Hall, San Anselmo, CA1892San AnselmoCA
Toland Medical School, San Francisco, CA 1884San FranciscoCA
University of California Observatories (UCO) / Lick Observatory #1, Mount Hamilton, CA1880-1888Mount HamiltonCA
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Campus Plan Project, Berkeley, CA1869BerkeleyCA

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