Background
A. Page Brown was born in 1859 in the eastern part of the U. S.
A. Page Brown was born in 1859 in the eastern part of the U. S.
A graduate of Cornell University. Later he set forth on a leisurely tour of Europe on which he continued his architectural studies.
He entered the office of McKim, Mead & White as a student-draftsman and remained to become a skilled designer. Later he set forth on a leisurely tour of Europe on which he continued his architectural studies. Returning to New York in 1885, Mr. Brown opened an office, and during the few years he practiced in the city was commissioned to design Clio and Whig Halls and the Museum of Historic Art at Princeton University.
His professional career in San Francisco, established shortly after his arrival in the city in 1889, though destined to be of brief duration, brought him success and recognition as one of the most progressive architects in the tiay city. His works comprised a number of important public and business structures, noted examples of which were: the eleven-story Crocker Office Building; Sharon Office Building, 1892; the Ferry Building and Southern Pacific Depot begun about 1893 and completed in 1903 after Mr. Brown's death by Willis Polk; the Donahue Office Building; and the Trinity Church at the northeast corner of Bush and Gough St. Mr. Brown also was architect of the California Building erected in Chicago at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.