Background
Bernard J.S. Cahill was born in 1866 in London, United Kingdom.
Bernard J.S. Cahill was born in 1866 in London, United Kingdom.
Mr. Cahill arrived in the United States in 1888, and some three years later began architectural practice In San Francisco, afterward opened another office in Oakland. In 1904 he prepared a plan for San Francisco's Civic Center which subsequently (1912) was adopted by the city.
In designing the Catacombs and Columbarian in Cypress Lawn Cemetery at San Francisco, and St. Mary's Mausoleum at Sacramento Mr. Cahill acquired a reputation as a specialist in mortuary buildings. He also planned varied types of buildings at Vancouver, the Multnomah Hotel’ at Portland, Magnavox Factories at Oakland, Calif, and designed the Diamond Head Memorial Park at Honolulu. An early advocate of City Planning, he attended the London Town Planning Conference in 1909 and the Conference on City Planning in 1910.