Coxhead & Coxhead 1886 - 1928

Coxhead & Coxhead was an architectural partnership formed by the British-born brothers Ernest Albert Coxhead (1863-1933) and, Almeric William Silvester Coxhead (1862-1928). They had emigrated to the USA in 1886 and settled in Los Angeles where they established a practice. In 1890 they relocated the business to San Francisco. Initially they practised as Ernest A. Coxhead, however, by 1891 the firm was known as Coxhead & Coxhead.

The Coxhead & Coxhead partnership was dissolved following the death of Almeric Coxhead in 1928.

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Works

Ernest Albert Coxhead was the senior partner in Coxhead & Coxhead and appears to have been responsible for much if not most of the work produced by the practice. This included at least six Episcopal churches in California between 1888 and 1913;  the 1st English Lutheran Church in Downtown, Los Angeles (1888); the 1st Congregational Church no.3 in Los Angeles (1889); Sturgis House in Los Angeles (1889-90); the Sturgis House in Los Angeles (1889-90); an  apartment house in Alamo Square, San Francisco, for Irving Scott (1890); Bixby Ranch House in Long Beach, California (1890); Chapel of the Holy Innocents, in San Francisco (1890); a house in Berkely, California for W. E. Chamberlain (1892); house in San Anselmo, California for Andrew Carrigan, Sr., and Eliza G. Harris (1892); a house in San Francisco for George Whittell (1893) the Graduate School of Public Policy in Berkely, California (1893); a house designed for themselves in San Mateo, California by Ernest and Almeric Coxhead (1893); the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House no.1 in Northside, Berkeley, California (1893-94); a house in Los Angeles for Edwin T. Earl (1897-98); Spanish–American War Soldier's Monument in Portland, Oregon (1906);  a house in San Francisco for Bruce Parker (1903-04); the Continental Hotel in San Francisco (1906); and Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Building in San Francisco (1908).  Coxhead & Coxhead also designed numerous other private residences in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bibliography

Longstreth, Richard. On the Edge of the World. New York: Architectural History Foundation and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983

‘Three Houses in Berkeley designed by Ernest Coxhead’. California Arts and Architecture March 1929 pp.41-45

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