Background
Clinton Day was born in 1846 Brooklyn, New York, United States.
(Location: San Francisco, at the northeast corner of Marke...)
Location: San Francisco, at the northeast corner of Market Street and Grant Avenue
Clinton Day was born in 1846 Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Brought to California in his youth by his family, Clinton Day was educated at the College of California (of which his father was a co-founder) the predecessor of the University of California at Berkeley.
During practice in San Francisco Mr. Day’s most important buildings were erected in the early part of the century, including the new Union Trust Company Bank at the northeast corner of Market Street and Grant Avenue and the City of Paris store. His most distinguished work, the Memorial Church at Stanford University, built as a Chapel, was designed in accordance with the original idea of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston, Supervising Architects of the University until 1906. That firm, it may be remembered succeeded to the practice of Henry H. Richardson, whose ecclesiastical masterpiece was Trinity Church in Boston
a former US Surveyor General to Califorrnia, Founding Trustee of the University of California at Berkeley, Professor of Mining and California State Senator.
president of Yale College for thirty years
