Weeks and Day was an American

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firm founded in 1916 by architect Charles Peter Weeks (1870–1928) and engineer William Peyton Day (1886–1966). Weeks was born in

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, educated in the atelier of

Victor Laloux Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux (15 November 1850 – 13 July 1937) was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher. Life Born in Tours, Laloux studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, with his studies i ...

at the

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from 1892 to 1895, and briefly partnered with

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. (Weeks is unrelated to the Canadian-American architect

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, also practicing in San Francisco in these years, and is also unrelated to

William E. Weeks William Edward Weeks (June 23, 1880 – April 23, 1972) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts. Early life Weeks was born on June 23, 1 ...

, architect in Southern California. with ) Day had been in partnership with pioneering San Francisco

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engineer

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. With Weeks as designer and Day as engineer, the firm specialized in theaters and cinemas, including several exuberant

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and hotels in the

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, extending to Los Angeles and San Diego. The firm was most active immediately before Weeks' death in 1928. Day continued the firm for 25 more years, closing the firm in 1953. sjlibrary digital collection
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Architectural work

* Loew's State Theatre, downtown Los Angeles, 1921 * Don Lee Cadillac Building, San Francisco, with architectural sculpture by

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, 1921 *California State Office Building (now Jesse M. Unruh State Office Building) and the Library and Courts Building, and fountain court inbetween (1922-1928), which make up the NRHP-listed Capitol Extension District, 900 block of the Capitol Mall,

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(Weeks & Day) * Huntington Apartments, 1922, converted to Huntington Hotel in 1924,

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, San Francisco * headquarters of the

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, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, 1924 *

Stanford Theatre The Stanford Theatre is a classical independent movie theater in Palo Alto, California. It was designed and built in the 1920s as a movie palace styled in neoclassical Persian and Moorish architecture. Today it specializes in films produced betw ...

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, 1925 *

Mark Hopkins Hotel The InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco is a luxury hotel located at the top of Nob Hill in San Francisco, California. The hotel is managed by the InterContinental Hotels Group. The chain operates over 5,000 hotels and resorts in approxim ...

, San Francisco, 1925 * Brocklebank Apartments,

, San Francisco, 1926 *

Hotel Sainte Claire The Westin San Jose, housed in the historic Sainte Claire Hotel, is a six-story landmark hotel in Downtown San Jose, California, United States. Built in 1926, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and one of the city's most recog ...

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, 1926 *

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, 1926 *

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Lock "Old Office" and Plant 1, San Francisco, 1926 * California Theatre,

, 1927 *

Fox Oakland Theatre The Fox Oakland Theatre is a 2,800-seat concert hall, a former movie theater, located at 1807 Telegraph Avenue in Downtown Oakland. It originally opened in 1928, running films until 1970. Designed by Weeks and Day, the theatre is listed on the Nat ...

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, 1928 * Fox Theater, now

Copley Symphony Hall Copley Symphony Hall (originally the Fox Theatre) in San Diego, California, designed by Weeks and Day, opened in 1929 as the Fox Theatre (a Gothic-revival luxury movie theater). The hall was conferred to the San Diego Symphony in 1984. It is ...

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, 1928 *

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, San Francisco, 1928 * Cathedral Apartments,

, San Francisco, 1930 *

I. Magnin Building The I. Magnin Building is a former I. Magnin department store in Oakland, California located at 2001 Broadway. It was built in 1931 and designed by architecture firm Weeks and Day. It housed the upscale department store until it closed in 1995. The ...

, Oakland, California, 1931 * Fox-Oakland Theater, 1807–1829 Telegraph Ave.,

(Weeks & Day), NRHP-listed *

, 302 and 320 S. Market St.,

(Weeks & Day), NRHP-listed * Don Lee Building, 1000 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco (Weeks and Day), NRHP-listed * Baker and Hamilton, 601 Townsend St., San Francisco (Weeks, Charles Peter), NRHP-listed *

Administration Building, Treasure Island The Administration Building, Treasure Island, on Treasure Island, California, is a Moderne style building designed by William Peyton Day and George William Kelham. It has also been known as Building 1, as Command Naval Base San Francisco Headqua ...

, built 1938, SE Corner of Avenue of the Palms and California Ave.,

Treasure Island, California Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay and a neighborhood in the City and County of San Francisco. Built in 1936–37 for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the island's World's Fair site is a California Hist ...

(Day, William Peyton; Kelham, George William), NRHP-listed * Hall of Transportation, Treasure Island, SE Side of California Ave. between Aves. D & F,

(Day, William Peyton, Kelham, George William), NRHP-listed *

Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island The Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, also known as Building 3, on Treasure Island (California), Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California, was an aircraft hangar constructed in 1938 for Pan American World Airways' trans-Pacific ''Pan A ...

, SE Side of California Ave. between Avenue F and Avenue I,

(Day, William Peyton; Kelham, George William), NRHP-listed

References

External links

Weeks and Day at Cinema TreasuresWilliam Peyton Day at Internet Archive

1201 California Street, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Architectural work

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