PCAD - Walker, P.J., and Company, Building Contractors

Advertisement for the Hotel Oakland with an Interior view of the lounge, Oakland, 1913; from the Polk-Husted Company's Oakland, California, City Directory, 1913, p. 464B

Advertisement for the Hotel Oakland, Oakland, 1913; from the Polk-Husted Company's Oakland, California, City Directory, 1913, p. 464A

Advertisement for the Oakland Commercial Club, Oakland, 1913; from "Oakland Commercial Club Ad," Polk-Husted Directory Company's Oakland Berkeley Alameda Directory, 1913, p. 15.

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Frederick Jubal Early Jr., J. S. Fifield, Frederick C. Walker Jr., Percival J. Walker Sr.

Active 1895-

Firm Notes

The P.J. Walker Construction Company was founded in San Francisco, CA, in 1895. Between 1895 and the early 1920s the firm operated primarily in Northern CA. It opened a Los Angeles office in the early 1920s to coordinate work on the William Garland Building.

PCAD id: 1204

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Bullock's Department Store, Pasadena, CA	1946-1947	Pasadena	CA
Doheny, Edward Laurence, Jr., and Lucy, House #2, Beverly Hills, CA	1927-1928	Beverly Hills	CA
Fitzhugh Building #2, San Francisco, CA	1923	San Francisco	CA
Garland, William M., Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1923-1924	Los Angeles
Oakland Hotel Corporation, Hotel Oakland, Downtown, Oakland, CA	1910-1912	Oakland	CA
Oviatt, James, Building, Los Angeles, CA	1927-1928	Los Angeles	CA
Shell Oil Company of California, Office Building, Financial District, San Francisco, CA	1929-1930	San Francisco	CA
Southern California Edison Office Building #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1929-1930	Los Angeles	CA
Title Guaranty and Trust Company, Main Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA	1929-1931	Los Angeles	CA
United States Government, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Branch #1, Los Angeles, CA	1929-1930	Los Angeles	CA
United States Government, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Headquarters #1, San Francisco, CA	1920-1924	San Francisco	CA

Publications

"Shell Building, San Francisco", Architectural Digest, 8: 2, 46-47, 1931. "Good Buildings Deserve Good Hardware Corbin", Architectural Record, 68: 3, 97, 09/1930. "Iron and Steel Construction News", Bridgeman's Magazine, 10: 4, 218, 04/1910. "Beacon on Building To Be Highest", Los Angeles Times, D8, 1929-10-29. "UCLA, Art Collector Bid for Prize", Los Angeles Times, WS1, 09/27/1981. Wiley, Peter Booth, National Trust Guide San Francisco: America's Guide for Architecture and History Travelers, 97-101, 2000. "New Quarters of Federal Reserve Bank Neing Built", Sacramento Union, 10, 1920-10-11.

Walker, P.J., and Company, Building Contractors (Practice)

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