Category:Emil de Neuf

Emil de Neuf 

American architect
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Date of birth	20 November 1863 Lüneburg
Date of death	20 March 1915 San Francisco
Occupation	architect (Seattle, 1889–1906) architect (San Francisco, 1906–1915) politician
Position held	mayor (1900–1905)
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Emil August de Neuf was a German-born American architect. Arriving in Seattle in 1880, he practiced architecture in the Pacific Northwest from 1889 to 1906, first as a draughtsman for Elmer Fisher, picking up much of his employer's business after his public fall from grace in 1891. He spent most of the latter half of the 1890s working in Guatemala. He worked solo until 1901, and then partnered with Augustus Heide until 1906, serving as the second of 3 mayors of West Seattle before that city's annexation to Seattle in 1907. In 1906 he abruptly closed his Seattle office and left for San Francisco to take advantage of the aftermath of the recent earthquake. There he became the chief architect for the city and county's board of public works for several years and worked out of Berkeley as a draughtsman and foreman for others until his tragic death in 1915 when he fell 4 floors from a building under construction.