Background
William H. Weeks was born in 1866 in Charlotteetown, Prince Edward Island. The son of a Canadian builder-architect.
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Los Gatos High School near San Jose in the Silicon Valley
Santa Cruz High School, Santa Cruz, California
WILLIAM H. WEEKS
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He studied architectural design at the Brinker Institute.
Career
He spent a few years in Wichita, Kans., and after designing his first important building in 1895, the Garfield Institute in that city, Mr. Weeks traveled westward, arriving eventually in Watsonville, Calif. At that time the Plant of the Spreckels Sugar Company was the chief industry in the town, and the young man designed a number of buildings for the Spreckels family.
Not however until he established practice in San Francisco in 1904 did Mr. Weeks win recognition in the field of architecture. His first "pre-fire” buildings were the Carnegie Library and the First Christian Church, and following the 1906 earthquake he was active in reconstruction work for a time. Independently he designed a number of Apartment Houses and Hotels in the Bay area, and in San Jose the old Vendome Hotel.
In 1924 Mr. Weeks took his son Harold H. into partnership, and under the name of Weeks & Weeks established a reputation as specialists in school work. It is estimated that more that a hundred buildings in various locations in California were built from their plans, among which were High Schools in Santa Barbara, Palo Alto and Piedmont. Weeks & Weeks also designed at least fifty churches, and at one time planned a number of public buildings, including Carnegie Libraries, in northern California.
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