Arthur Brown, Jr. (1874 – 1957) was an American architect, based in San Francisco. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1896, where he and his future partner, John Bakewell, Jr, also a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, were protégés of famed Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck. Brown went to Paris and graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901, before returning to San Franc...
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Arthur Brown, Jr. (1874 – 1957) was an American architect, based in San Francisco. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1896, where he and his future partner, John Bakewell, Jr, also a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, were protégés of famed Bay Area architect Bernard Maybeck. Brown went to Paris and graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901, before returning to San Francisco to establish his practice with Bakewell. the firm designed the rotunda for the City of Paris department store in San Francisco and the city hall for Berkeley, California, across the Bay before entering the competition for San Francisco City Hall for which he is best known: the Beaux-Arts structure opened in 1915. Brown also built the city's War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, the former in collaboration with G. Albert Lansburgh. Brown was meticulously trained in the rigorous Beaux-Arts tradition, and in the City Hall project...
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