Background
Hamilton F.F. was born in 1853 at Maine, New York, United States.
Hamilton F.F. was born in 1853 at Maine, New York, United States.
He left for California at the age of seventeen and settled first in Los Angeles. He worked there a few years, perhaps as a student acquiring experience in the office of older architects, later planned several buildings under his own name.
In 1877 Mr. Hamilton moved to San Francisco where he joined George W. Percy in partnership and under the firm name continued in practice during his remaining years. Percy & Hamilton are credited with the design of a number of well known buildings of that period in northern California, such as the old Academy of Science on Market Street near Fifth in San Francisco; Children’s Playhouse and grounds in Golden Gate Park; the First Unitarian Church at Geary and Franklin Streets, San Francisco; Alameda City Hall; Museum, Library and Assembly Hall at Stanford University, Palo Alto, also Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton.
Shortly before Mr. Hamilton s death in 1899, the firm was commissioned architects of the eleven-story Hayward Building at California and Montgomery Streets (later re-named the Kohl Building), and the plans were completed by Mr. Percy