Principal, Joseph B. Randall, Architect, Denver, CO, c. 1881. Randall was listed in the Denver City Directory in 1881, living at 256 Broadway. Principal, J.B. Randall, Architect, Ellensburg, WA, c. 1889; He probably designed the Davidson Building in Ellensburg. Principal, J.B. Randall, Architect, San Francisco, CA, 1910. A "J.B. Randall," an architect, appeared in the San Francisco City Directory of 1910. At this time, he resided at 2417 Washington Street in San Francisco. A "J. Harry Randall" operated in both Saint Louis, MO (c. 1895) and in Seattle, WA, c. 1901, although he appears to have been a different practitioner. (In 1901, J. Harry had his office in the Colman Building and resided at the Palace Hotel.)

A "Joseph B. Randall" was the defendant in a Nebraska Supreme Court case of 1877. Nebraska school District #27 of Sarpy County alleged that Randall, a carpenter, had colluded with an architect, C.F. Driscoll, to defraud the school system of all services paid for by the district. These services included "...that the work shall be done under the direction and superintendance, and to the satisfaction of an architect, to be testified by certificate under his hand, such architect is thereby constituted sole arbiter between the parties, and the parties are bound by his certificate...." (p. 408) The school district alleged that Randall colluded with Driscoll to produce a shoddy building improperly supervised and fraudulently certified. The Supreme Court found that the evidence of fraud thrown out in the lower court needed to be reconsidered in a trial de novo. (See James Mills Woolworth, Lorenzo Crounse, Guy Ashton Brown, Walter Alber Leese, David Allen Campbell, Lee Herdmen, Henry Paxon Stoddart, Henry Clay Lindsay, Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska, Volume 5, "School District Number Twenty-seven of Sarpy County, Plaintiff in Error, v. Joseph B. Randall, Defendant in Error," p. 408-412.)