Edna Deakin (1871–1946) was an American designer, and one of the earliest women architects in the

United States of America The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territo ...

. She is best known for remodeling the " Temple of the Wings" building in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emer ...

Life

Edna Deakin was born in the area of

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

. She was the daughter of the British-American painter

Edwin Deakin Edwin Deakin (May 21, 1838 – May 11, 1923) was a British-American artist best known for his romantic landscapes as well as his architectural studies, especially the Spanish colonial missions of California. His still lifes are considered to be ...

and the niece of the architect Frederick H. Daken. She studied mechanics at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, but dropped out to study architecture with her cousin Clarence Dakin (whose family spelled the name differently) at the classes of

John Galen Howard John Galen Howard (May 8, 1864 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts – July 18, 1931 in San Francisco, California) was an American architect and educator who began his career in New York before moving to California. He was the principal architect at in ...

Architectural work

After her studies, Deakin worked in the offices of Dickey and Reed (C. W. Dickey) and for the architect George T. Plowman. She advertised herself as a "designer" and collaborated with her cousin. They may have been involved with the design of the Studio Building in Berkeley, which was built by Clarence's father. Deakin and Clarence collaborated on restoration of an unusual Berkeley building known as the "Temple of Wings." Originally designed in 1911 as a house without any walls by

Bernard Maybeck Bernard Ralph Maybeck (February 7, 1862 – October 3, 1957) was an American architect in the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th century. He was an instructor at University of California, Berkeley. Most of his major buildings were in ...

and A. Randolph Monroe, the "Temple of Wings" building suffered serious fire damage in 1923. The original Corinthian columns that had held up the roof survived and were used in Deakin and Clarence's remodel. They worked out a plan to enclose the structure, building living areas with ground-floor dance studios on both sides of an open courtyard. She also designed the D(e)akin family property at Telegraph and Woolsey in Berkeley.

References

External links

Berkeley Historical Plaque project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deakin, Edna University of California, Berkeley alumni 20th-century American architects 1871 births 1946 deaths American women architects Architects from California 20th-century American women

Life

Architectural work

See also

References

External links