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Harold B. Foss (1910–1988) was an American architect from

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. Harold Byron Foss was born November 17, 1910, in Montesano, Washington.''American Architects Directory''. 1962. He was educated at the University of Washington, graduating in 1935. That year he went to Juneau, where he formed the H. B. Foss Company. MacKay Malcolm and Bjarne Carl Olsen were later added as partners, in 1945 and 1950. Malcolm died in 1951, but his name remained until 1956, when the firm was reduced to Foss & Olsen. This period was brief, and Edward Elmer Sands was added later that same year. Foss, Olsen & Sands was succeeded by Olsen & Sands when Foss moved to Palo Alto, California in 1958. He died there in 1988. Foss was known throughout Alaska primarily as an architect of public buildings, of which he designed many.

Works

H. B. Foss Company, 1935-1945

* 1939 - Stanley Grummet House, 603 W 10th St, Juneau, Alaska''Report of the Casey-Shattuck Neighborhood: Historic Building Survey''
. Dec. 2004. * 1939 - Walter Sharpe House, 603 W 11th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1939 - Clifford Swap House, 610 W 11th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1940 - Eielson Memorial Building,

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, Fairbanks, AlaskaHoagland, Alison K. ''Buildings of Alaska''. 1993. ** Begun in 1930 by N. Lester Troast, an architect from Sitka. * 1940 - James Larsen House, 712 W 11th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1940 - Carl Weidman House, 622 W 11th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1941 - James Orme House, 924 D St, Juneau, Alaska * 1945 - Evelyn I. Butler House, 908 B St, Juneau, Alaska * 1945 - Rebuilding of Hoonah, Alaska ** Much of the city was burned in 1944.

Foss & Malcolm, 1945-1950

* 1945 - James Larsen House, 416 W 9th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1946 - Walter Stutte House, 610 W 9th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1947 - Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, 222 Tongass Dr,

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* 1947 - Petersburg Municipal Building, 12 S Nordic Dr, Petersburg, Alaska * 1948 - Rae C. Stedman Memorial School, Dolphin St, Petersburg, Alaska * 1948 - Terminal, Juneau International Airport, Juneau, Alaska ** Altered. * 1949 - Anchorage Tuberculosis Hospital, E 3rd Ave,

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** Demolished. * 1949 - U. S. Bureau of Mines Experiment Station, 100 Savikko Rd, Juneau Island, Douglas, Alaska * 1950 - Juneau City Hall, 155 S Seward St, Juneau, Alaska * 1950 - Juneau Memorial Library, 114 W 4th St, Juneau, Alaska

Foss, Malcolm & Olsen, 1950-1956

* 1950 - Cathedral Arms, 237 Lincoln St,

* 1952 - Alaska State Office Building, 350 Main St, Juneau, Alaska * 1952 - Brooks Memorial Mines Building,

, Fairbanks, Alaska * 1952 - Mendenhall Apartments, 326 4th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1953 -

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, Whittier, Alaska * 1953 - Chena Building, 510 2nd Ave, Fairbanks, Alaska * 1953 - Andrew Nerland Hall, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska''Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner'' 25 July 1958: 8. * 1954 -

Chapel by the Lake Chapel by the Lake (or Chapel-by-the-Lake) is a Presbyterianism, Presbyterian church (building), church in Auke Bay, Alaska, Auke Bay, Alaska. It was designed by Juneau, Alaska, Juneau-based architects Harold Foss and Linn A. Forrest. The constr ...

, 11024 Auke Lake Way,

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** With

Linn A. Forrest Linn Argyle Forrest, Sr. (1905–1987) was an American architect of Juneau, Alaska who worked to restore "authentic Southeast Alaska Native architecture, especially totem poles". During the 1930s and the Great Depression, he oversaw Civilian Co ...

. * 1954 - Hodge Building, Whittier, Alaska * 1954 - Petersburg Hospital, 103 Fram St, Petersburg, Alaska''Engineering News Record'' 1950: 295. * 1954 - St. Ann's Hospital, 415 6th St, Juneau, Alaska * 1955 - Constitution Hall, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska * 1955 - Sitka Community Hospital, Moller Ave, Sitka, Alaska

Foss & Olsen, 1956

* 1956 - Parish House for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 325 Gold St, Juneau, Alaska

Foss, Olsen & Sands, 1956-1958

* 1956 - Bethel Armory, 470 4th Ave, Bethel, Alaska''Engineering News-Record'' 13 Dec. 1956: 70. New York. * 1956 - John E. McIntosh Hall,

, Fairbanks, Alaska * 1957 - U. S. Post Office, 113 Front St,

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* 1958 - Morton Stevens Hall, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foss, Harold B. 1910 births 1988 deaths Architects from Alaska Architects from California Architects from Washington (state) 20th-century American architects People from Juneau, Alaska People from Montesano, Washington