John Galen Howard


John Galen Howard was an American architect who began his career in New York before moving to San Francisco, California. He was the principal architect at Howard, Cauldwell & Morgan and employed Julia Morgan early in her architectural career.
Howard was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the École des Beaux-Arts. He was an apprentice with H. H. Richardson and then a draftsman with Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge.
Howard completed many notable projects and was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1901.

Career

After practicing in New York, Howard moved to California in 1901 to execute the Hearst Plan as the supervising architect of the Master Plan for the University of California, Berkeley campus, and for founding the University of California's architecture program. Among his most famous buildings are the Campanile, California Memorial Stadium, Sather Gate, and the Hearst Greek Theatre, all located at UC Berkeley.
Howard also designed the centerpiece of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, the Electric Tower, several buildings at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in Seattle, and the San Francisco Civic Auditorium.
Some of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
In 1910 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

Personal

John Galen Howard born May 8, 1864 in Chelmsford, MA. Howard was son of physician, Dr. Levi Howard and Lydia Jane Hapgood, a homemaker and he had four brothers. He married Mary Robertson Bradbury on August 1, 1893. They had five children; Henry Temple Howard was an architect who worked with his father; Robert Boardman Howard, became a sculptor and married another noted Bay Area sculptor, Adaline Kent ; other children included Charles Houghton Howard, John Langley Howard both were known artists of the time, and Jeanette Howard.

Works