Frederick Herman Meyer
{{Short description|American architect}}
Frederick Herman Meyer{{Cite web |last=Michelson |first=Alan |title=Frederick Herman Meyer |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/762/ |access-date=2019-03-19 |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), Built Environments Library, University of Washington}} (June 26, 1876 – March 6, 1961) was an American architect. He was active in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is known for designing the YMCA Hotel in San Francisco. From c.1898 until 1901, Samuel Newsom worked with Meyer, to form the firm Newsom and Meyer in Oakland.{{Cite web |last=Michelson |first=Alan |title=Newsom and Meyer |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/firm/447/ |access-date= |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), Built Environments Library, University of Washington}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C65IAQAAMAAJ |title=Crocker-Langley San Francisco Business Directory for Years Commencing May 1899 |date=1899 |publisher=H.S. Crocker Company |language=en}} Starting in 1902 and until 1908, Meyer entered into a partnership with architect Smith O'Brien to form the form Meyer and O'Brien.{{Cite web |title=Bay Area Architects: Frederick Meyer |url=https://noehill.com/architects/meyer.aspx |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=noehill.com}}
Frederick Herman Meyer was born on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, his father John Nicholas Meyer was a German immigrant, cabinet maker.{{Cite web |url=http://150290062.homesconnect.com/AccountData/150290062/NF7Meyer.pdf |title=Pacific Heights Architects #7 - Frederick H. Meyer |last=Parry |first=David |date=2002 |access-date=2019-03-19}}
Buildings
- Cadillac Hotel (1908), Tenderloin, San Francisco, California; designed by Meyer and O'Brien, a San Francisco Historic Landmark, and part of the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Kerri |date=2021-01-19 |title=Landmark Tuesdays: The Cadillac Hotel |url=https://www.sfheritage.org/news/landmark-tuesdays-the-cadillac-hotel/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=San Francisco Heritage |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=San Francisco Landmark #176: Cadillac Hotel |url=https://noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf176.asp |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=noehill.com}}
- California Hall (formerly Das Deutsches Haus; 1912), San Francisco, California; which is listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark{{Cite book |last=Accardi |first=Catherine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVlNARtSe-AC |title=San Francisco Landmarks |date=2012 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-9580-1 |pages=89 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Cerny |first=Susan Dinkelspiel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FkVQx6MWa8MC |title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area |date=2007 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |isbn=978-1-58685-432-4 |pages=38 |language=en}}
- The Belgravia (1913), San Francisco, California{{Cite web |url=http://sfluxe.net/inside-the-belgravia/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112212853/http://sfluxe.net/inside-the-belgravia/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 12, 2015 |title=Inside The Belgravia |date=2009-07-07 |website=SFLUXE |language=en-US |access-date=2019-03-19}}
- Exposition Auditorium (now known as the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium; 1915), San Francisco, California
- Green's Eye Hospital (1928), 1801 Bush Street, San Francisco, California
- Monadnock Building (1907), San Francisco, California{{Cite web |url=https://noehill.com/architects/meyer.aspx |title=Bay Area Architects: Frederick Meyer |website=noehill.com |access-date=2023-11-26}}
- Building 101 Built for Bethlehem Steel (1917), at Pier 70, San Francisco, California (now RH Furniture and Restaurant){{Cite web |url=https://artandarchitecture-sf.com/bethlehem-steel-building.html |title=The Bethlehem Steel Building |website=artandarchitecture-sf.com |access-date=2023-11-26}}
- YMCA Hotel (1928), San Francisco, California;{{Cite web |url=https://noehill.com/architects/meyer.aspx |title=Bay Area Architects: Frederick Meyer |website=noehill.com |access-date=2019-03-19}} which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places{{Cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/86000148|title=National Register Information System ID 86000148}}
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Category:Architects from San Francisco