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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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f the profession. He cameto California from New York with thelate A. Page Brown and had lived inSan Francisco ever since. Mr. Oakey had a very thorough train-ing in architecture and his many bril-liant natural gifts led him into variouslines of work, more or less related toarchitecture, such as acoustics, stainedglass, wall paper and landscape garden-ing. In earlier days he worked in theoffices of such men as R. M. Hunt ofNew York and Norman Shaw of London. At one time he was in partnershipwith his brother-in-law, Mr. SullivawJones, later of the firm of Palmer, Horn-bostel & Jones of New York City. Mr. Oakeys career as an architect wasvaried and picturesque and included suchinteresting commissions as the restora-tion of the Villa Mattel near Rome andthe construction of a mansion in San-tiago. Chile. Mr. Oakey upheld the finest traditionsof his profession with a dignity and adistinction in striking contrast to therough and readv methods so generallyprevalent heretofore in the West.
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