Albright, Harrison, Architect (Practice)

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Harrison Albright, John Lloyd Wright

Active 1905-1925

Firm Notes

Architect Harrison Albright (1866-1932) maintained a practice in Philadelphia, PA (c. 1888-1890), before relocating to Charleston, WV, where he worked from 1891 until 1905. In 03/1905, Albright moved again, this time setting up a practice in Los Angeles, CA. Frank Lloyd Wright's son, John Lloyd Wright (1892-1973), worked for Albright c. 1910.

PCAD id: 975

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Inbound Freight Depot #2, Los Angeles, CA1906-1907Los AngelesCA
Brockman Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1917Los AngelesCA
Citizens' Securities Company, Citizens' National Bank Building #1, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1905-1906Los AngelesCA
City of Columbus, City Water Works Pumping House and Electric Light Station, Columbus, IN1901-1903ColumbusIN
City of Coronado, Public Library, Coronado, CA1908CoronadoCA
Consolidated Realty Company, Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1909-1910Los AngelesCA
Coronado Bank, Office Building, Coronado, CA1917CoronadoCA
El Prado Complex, San Diego, CA1914-1915San DiegoCA
Golden West Hotel, Downtown, San Diego, CA1911San DiegoCA
Grant, Ulysses S., Hotel, San Diego, CA1905-1910San DiegoCA
Hotel San Diego, San Diego, CA1914San DiegoCA
Laughlin, Homer Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1897Los AngelesCA
Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC), Albright Project, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Panama-California Exposition, Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA1914-1915San DiegoCA
Richmond Hotel, Richmond, VARichmondVA
San Diego Unified School District. Reinforced Concrete School, San Diego, CA1907San DiegoCA
San Diego Union, Office Building #5, San Diego, CA1908San DiegoCA
Spreckels Office Building and Theatre, Downtown, San Diego, CA1910-1912San DiegoCA
Spreckels, John Diedrich, Sr., House, Coronado, CA1907-1908CoronadoCA
Timken Company, Office Building, San Diego, CA1907San DiegoCA
Titus, Harry Lewis, House, San Diego, CACoronadoCA
Waldo Hotel, Clarksburg, WV1901-1904ClarksburgWV
West Baden Springs Hotel #2, West Baden Springs, French Lick, IN1901-1902French LickIN

Publications

"Cabot's Waterproof Cement Stains", American Architect, XCVI: 1770, 5, 11/24/1909. "Albright, Harrison Works", American Architect and Building News, 91: 1636, 5/4/1907. "Albright, Harrison Works", American Architect and Building News, 91: 1636, 5/4/1907. Albright, Harrison, "Reinforced Concrete Construction in Southern California", Architect & Engineer of California, 7: 37, 1/1907. "Los Angeles Athletic Club Illustrations", Architect & Engineer of California, 75, 2/1908. "Los Angeles Athletic Club Project", Architect & Engineer of California, 55, 4/1908. "Building for Henry Timken", Architect and Engineer of California, 76, 06/1908. "Photo of Broadway between 3rd Street and 4th Street, 1907", Arrowhead, 4, 01/1908. Withey, Henry F., Withey, Elsie Rathburn, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased), 12, 1970. Eighteenth annual report, Los Angeles Public Library, for the year ending November 30, 1906, 1-4, 1907. Malinick, Cynthia B., "Classicism and Concrete: Harrison Albright's Architectural Contributions to Coronado", Journal of San Diego History, 43: 2, Spring 1997. "Rebirth at the city's historic center; Grand Central Square is a spectacular urban catalyst", Los Angeles Downtown News, 30, 11/07/1994. Maese, Kathryn, "Downtown, 90014", Los Angeles Downtown News, 1, 6, 03/08/2004. Mandell, Jason, "Brockman Building to be sold", Los Angeles Downtown News, 1, 10, 12/15/2003. "New Santa Fe Depot to be Concrete", Los Angeles Evening Newspaper, 05/12/1906. "New Los Angeles Public Library will have delightful roof garden for city readers", Los Angeles Examiner, 45, 03/04/1906. "Reinforced Concrete School, San Diego", Los Angeles Times, V: 1, 9/22/1907. "Brick Block Begins: Goes Up on Busy Corner", Los Angeles Times, 20, 1905-06-25. "Public Library to begin moving this week", Los Angeles Times, 33, 03/18/1906. "Big Building for South Hill", Los Angeles Times, V: 1, 7/25/1909. "Plans for Timken Building, San Diego", Los Angeles Times, V: 1, "Big Building for South Hill", Los Angeles Times, V: 1, "High Block for South Hill", Los Angeles Times, V: 1, 12/5/1909. "New Bank Building", Los Angeles Times, 1, 1905-011-26. "Award Contracts for Residences at Coronado", San Diego Union, 12, col 3, 7/26/1907. "Plans Approved for Handsome Home for John D. Spreckels at Coronado", San Diego Union, II: 11, cols. 5-6, 7/21/1907. "San Diego Union Expansion Plans", Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer, 19, col. 2, 5/10/1913. Albright, Harrison, "Reinforced Concrete Construction and Why I Favor It", Southwest Contractor and Manufacturer, 2: 6, 1/9/1909.
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