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 at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1892 to 1895, and briefly partnered with John Galen Howard. (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

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, 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 movie palaces and hotels in the San Francisco Bay Area, 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 The Jesse M. Unruh State Office Building is a building designed by Weeks and Day in Sacramento, California. It was previously known as the California State Office Building or the California State Treasurer's Building, but in 1987, it was renamed a ...

) 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, Sacramento, California (Weeks & Day) * Huntington Apartments, 1922, converted to Huntington Hotel in 1924, Nob Hill, San Francisco * headquarters of the San Francisco Chronicle, 901 Mission Street, San Francisco, 1924 * Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California, 1925 *

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, San Francisco, 1925 * Brocklebank Apartments, Nob Hill, San Francisco, 1926 *

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, San Jose, California, 1926 *

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, 1926 *

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

, Oakland, California, 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 ...

, San Diego, California, 1928 * Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, 1928 * Cathedral Apartments, Nob Hill, 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., Oakland, California (Weeks & Day), NRHP-listed *

, 302 and 320 S. Market St., San Jose, California (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, built 1938, SE Corner of Avenue of the Palms and California Ave.,

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(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

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External links

Weeks and Day at Cinema TreasuresWilliam Peyton Day at Internet Archive

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