Background
Maxwell G. Bugbee was born in 1865 in New York, United States.
(Born in England, Barber was one of the earliest lawyers t...)
Born in England, Barber was one of the earliest lawyers to settle in San Francisco, CA, (in 1851) and later beccame the city's District Attorney.
Maxwell G. Bugbee was born in 1865 in New York, United States.
He was trained for the profession followed by both his father and grandfather.
His father S. G. Bugbee, had an architectural office in Boston as early as 1851, later moved to San Francisco and in 1896 organized the firm of S. G. Bugbee and Son, of which Maxwell was a junior partner. During his practice in the latter city, Mr. Bugbee planned a number of apartment houses and private homes in the Bay area. He was an expert in the Shingle Style, designed the "Gray House" for the lawyer William Barber and his wife, Elizabeth Bartlett Jackson Barber. The first residence burned down, and the Barbers commissioned Bugbee to design this residence, completed in 1892, to replace it.
