Allen Aaron Cook
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Allen Aaron Cook (April 20, 1832 – February 12, 1899), usually known as A. A. Cook, was an American architect who came to Sacramento, California in 1870. He designed numerous buildings around the state, including a number which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.
Biography
Cook was born on April 20, 1832, in Chenango County, New York. His parents moved to Albany, New York in that year, which is where Cook grew up and attended school.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/illustratedhisto00davi#page/788/mode/2up |author=Winfield J. Davis |title= An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California |pages= 789–790 |publisher= Lewis Publishing Company |year=1890}} He married Maria Midler of Pennsylvania on January 12, 1870, in Douglas, NE; they had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood. Two other children died of measles on 21 March 21, 1882.
He died in Shingle Springs, California, on February 12, 1899.newspapers.com, The Record Union, Sacramento, CA 16 Feb 1899, Page 3
Selected works
- the Wheatland Masonic Temple, in Wheatland, California, NRHP-listed{{NRISref|2009a}}
- the Odd Fellows Building (1882–83) in Red Bluff, California, NRHP-listed{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=76000537}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Odd Fellows Building / Odd Fellows Hall |publisher=National Park Service |author=Winchell T. Hayward |date=March 18, 1976 |accessdate=October 16, 2016 }} with {{NRHP url|id=76000537|photos=y|title=four photos from 1976}}
- Cone and Kimball Building at 747 Main St. in Red Bluff, NRHP-listedhttp://focus.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=cd205b8c-0623-497e-b17d-c5880a4ed791 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
- Pleasants Ranch at 8212 Pleasants Valley Rd. in Vacaville, California, NRHP-listed
- courthouse at Redding
- Stansbury Home (1883), Chico, California, NRHP-listed{{Cite web |url=http://www.stansburyhome.org/history-of-the-stansbury-home.html |title=History of the Stansbury Home |access-date=2016-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105161302/http://www.stansburyhome.org/history-of-the-stansbury-home.html |archive-date=2016-11-05 |url-status=dead }}http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/75000424
- Hotel DeVilbiss (1899-90), 2-10 Main Street, Winters, California, a contributing building in the NRHP-listed Downtown Winters Historic District{{Cite web |url=http://discoverwinters.com/2010/08/historic-main-street-walking-tour/ |title=Main Street Walking Tour |access-date=2016-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228130605/http://discoverwinters.com/2010/08/historic-main-street-walking-tour/ |archive-date=2016-12-28 |url-status=dead }}[http://focus.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=caadb595-c426-4f41-a0d8-e4810ae8f181 NRHP document]
- state prison at Folsom, California
- Western Hotel, Sacramento, a listed California Historical Landmark
- Hale's Block, Sacramento
- county hospitals in Colusa, Mendocino and Tehama
- churches at Redding, Sacramento, Stockton, and Wheatland
- Nevada State Asylum
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Category:People from Chenango County, New York
Category:People from Sacramento, California
Category:19th-century American architects
Category:History of Sacramento, California
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