Levi Goodrich

Levi Goodrich was born January 1, 1822, in New York City, New York. His parents died when he was young, and he lived with relatives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Goodrich became a carpenter, then studied architecture in the office of R. G Hatfield in New York City.{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=759}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}

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On March 8, 1849, Goodrich sailed for California via Cape Horn on the ship Loochoo arriving on September 16, 1849. He traveled with a large quantity of building materials and sold them upon arriving in San Francisco. Soon after arriving, he designed the Parker house, a wood-framed building on Portsmouth Square. The building, at the corner of Washington and Kearny Streets, was built to replace tents used by Gold Rush miners. It was reportedly the first work in San Francisco by a professional architect.{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=759}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}{{sfn|Kirker|1960|p=41–42}}

Goodrich moved to San Jose, California in November 1849. His architectural offices were in the Knox Block.{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=759}}{{sfn|Langley|1867|p=239}}

On April 13, 1854, Goodrich married Juliet Peck. They had a son, E. B. Goodrich, who joined his father's office and, eventually, succeeded him.{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}

Goodrich married Sarah Knox on January 15, 1879. She was prominent in the cause of equal rights for women, fully supported by her husband.{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}

Goodrich retired in 1886. On April 2, 1887, he suffered an attack of apoplexy while visiting San Diego with his wife, and quickly died. He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose.{{cite news |title=Levi Goodrich |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13520467/levi_goodrich |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=4 April 1887 |pages=8 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322005646/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13520467/levi-goodrich/ |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}

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• 1851, an adobe house at Santa Clara and Lightstone Streets, with J. D. Hoppe{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=135}}
• 1851, two one-story adobe buildings on Santa Clara Street, for Frank Lightson{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=376}}
• 1853, part of the Women's College of Notre Dame and convent{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=135 and 144}}
• c. 1854, Thomas Fallon House, 175 West St. John Street, a two-story Italianate villa, now a museum{{sfn|Cerny|2007|p=202}}
• 1855, San Jose City Hall, 35 North Market Street, designed to resemble a medieval castle with parapets and towers; destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake{{cite web |title=Notes From the Underbelly |url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.16.03/underbelly-0303.html |website=www.metrosiliconvalley.com |access-date=March 21, 2022 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705135856/https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.16.03/underbelly-0303.html |archivedate=2008-07-05 |url-status=live}}{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=399}}
• 1863, First Presbyterian Church of San Jose; destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake{{sfn|Hall|1871|p=200}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}
• 1866–1868, Santa Clara County Courthouse, 161 North 1st Street, a two-story Neoclassical building with a dome, overlooking St. James Square; destroyed by fire in 1931{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=141}}
• 1869–1871, county jailhouse{{cite web |url=http://www.scscourt.org/general_info/community/och_history.shtml#Building |title=Old courthouse history |work=www.scscourt.org |accessdate=October 10, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130083312/https://www.scscourt.org/general_info/community/och_history.shtml |archivedate=2022-11-30 |url-status=live}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=140}}{{cite news |title=To Builders |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN18700430.2.8.2&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-levi+goodrich-------1 |access-date=March 27, 2022 |work=San Jose Daily Mercury |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=April 30, 1870}}
• 1880, California State Normal School{{cite news |title=Normal School, San Jose |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98088637/normal-school-san-jose/ |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=Oakland Tribune |date=20 April 1880 |pages=3 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322005644/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98088637/normal-school-san-jose/ |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}
• University of the Pacific{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}
• Also, Knox Block (Goodrich's office was in room 20 of this building), three public school buildings, Bank of San Jose, and Martin Block{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}{{cite news |title=The New School Building |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98090708/the-new-school-building/ |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel |date=4 April 1875 |pages=3 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322005648/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98090708/the-new-school-building/ |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}

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• 1872, San Diego County Courthouse, a Classical-style building on land donated by Alonzo E. Horton{{cite web |last1=Showley |first1=Roger |title=Four downtown courthouses, 1872-1996 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/sdut-courthouse-history-downtown-2014feb21-story.html |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=March 22, 2022 |date=February 21, 2014 |url-access=subscription |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322182849/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/sdut-courthouse-history-downtown-2014feb21-story.html |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}
• 1882, Independent Order of Odd Fellows building, at 526 Market Street, listed on the National Register of Historic Places{{cite web |title=Independent Order of Odd Fellows building nomination form |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/c05a7b62-36d5-4c96-bd87-cfeb35425581/ |website=npgallery.nps.gov |access-date=March 22, 2022}}

• Monterey County Courthouse{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}
• 1949, Parker House Hotel, San Francisco, CA{{cite web |title=PCAD - Parker House Hotel, San Francisco, CA |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/17406/ |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu |access-date=March 22, 2022}}{{sfn|Kirker|1960|p=41–42}}

In 1874, Goodrich purchased a 500-acre sandstone quarry that came to be known as Goodrich's Free-Stone Quarry. The quarry is about eight miles south of San Jose in the Santa Teresa Hills on the eastern slope of the Almaden Valley. After Goodrich's death, the quarry was leased, and then sold, to the quarry's stone master Jacob Pfeiffer. It was renamed Graystone Quarry.{{cite web |title=Lehigh Permanente Quarry Reclamation Plan Amendment: Draft Environmental Impact Report |url=https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/DocsForms/Documents/Lehigh_DEIR_201112_Ch10_AppendixD.pdf |website=www.sccgov.org |date=December 2011 |access-date=March 25, 2022}}

The stone from the Goodrich/Graystone quarry has been used in many California buildings including the front walls and cornices of the Stanford University quadrangle the Santa Clara County Courthouse, U.S. Post Office in San Jose (now the San Jose Museum of Art), California State Normal School, Lick Observatory, University of the Pacific, the Knox-Goodrich Building, San Carlos Railroad Depot, and Agnews State Hospital.{{cite news |title=Old Quarry Source for Quad Stone |last=Canfield |first=Dave | url=https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1957/04/03?page=4§ion=MODSMD_ARTICLE35#article | work=The Stanford Daily |date= April 3, 1957 |volume=131 |issue=27 |page=4}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=139–140}}{{sfn|Cerny|2007|p=149–150, 204, 205, 210}}{{sfn|Kirker|1960|p=72–73, 102}}

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