David Dewey Bohannon was a home builder and contractor in the
San Francisco Bay Area, founder of the David D. Bohannon Organization. His firm built the
Hillsdale Shopping Center
Hillsdale Shopping Center, or simply Hillsdale, is a shopping mall in San Mateo, California, United States, currently anchored by Macy's and Nordstrom. Featuring over 130 stores and restaurants, it is at the intersection of Hillsdale Boulevard and ...
,
San Lorenzo Village (the first large-scale master planned community in Alameda County), and many other projects in
San Mateo,
Alameda County, and across the Bay Area. He built over 25,000 homes in the Bay Area in the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Bohannon became one of the biggest developers of whites-only housing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-20th century, with significant responsibility for the segregated landscape that persists.
References
External links
Company history at the Bohannon website
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Architects from California
History of the San Francisco Bay Area
Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area
Place of birth missing
1898 births
1995 deaths