PCAD - United States Government, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Acting Supervising Architect, Wetmore, James A.

Satellite view of the Federal Immigrant Station and Assay Office (center), International District, Seattle, WA. From Google Maps/Street View, satellite view, accessed 01/23/2024

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James Alphonso Wetmore

Active 1915-1934

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Wetmore was not actually an architect, but a talented bureaucrat; under his time as Acting Supervising Architect, he and his administration supervised the construction of over 2,000 government buildings across the U.S.

PCAD id: 1022

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Cold-Climate Ambulant Unit, Walla Walla, WA		Walla Walla	WA
United States Government, Department of Labor, Immigrant Station and Assay Office, International District, Seattle, WA	1930-1931	Seattle	WA
United States Government, Postal Service (USPS), Post Office, Aberdeen, WA
United States Government, Postal Service (USPS), Post Office, Glendale Main Branch, Glendale, CA	1933-1934	Glendale	CA
United States Government, Veterans Administration (VA), Hospital #1, Palo Alto, CA	1920	Menlo Park	CA
United States Treasury Department, N.P. Hospital, Palo Alto, CA	1920	Palo Alto	CA

Publications

Simon, Louis A., "On the Planning of Certain Government Hospitals", Architecture (Scribner's), 49: 2, 40, 42, 44, plate 18, 2/1924. Simon, Louis A., "On the Planning of Certain Government Hospitals", Architecture (Scribner's), 49: 2, 42, 2/1924. Simon, Louis A., "On the Planning of Certain Government Hospitals", Architecture (Scribner's), 49: 2, plate 21, 2/1924. "Glendale Post Office Designed in Monumental Renaissance", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 19, 1934-04-27.

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Old Federal Building, Seattle, WA

United States Government, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Acting Supervising Architect, Wetmore, James A. (Acting Supervising Architect of the US Treasury)

Buildings and other works

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