Arthur Brown,
Architect, Dies
Designer of Many Buildings
on Coast Was Adviser for
Remodeling the Capitol
Special to The New York Times.
BURLINGAME, Calif., July 8
-- Arthur Brown Jr., architect who has served as one of the three chief advisers on design for the remodeling of the national Capitol, died at
Peninsula Hospital here yesterday. He had suffered a heart attack six weeks ago. His age was 83.
Mr. Brown, who was born in Oakland, designed many public buildings, homes, churches and monuments in the San Francisco
Bay area. He also designed the Interstate Commerce and Labor Department Buildings in Washington.
He was a graduate of the University of California's college of Civil Engineering and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Associate architect at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, he served on the architectural commission for the Chicago
Century of Progress in 1933 and was chairman of the architectural commission for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939 and 1940.
Mr. Brown designed the San Francisco City Hall and several other structures in the Civic Center, including the Veterans War
Memorial and the Federal Office Building. He was architect of Coit Tower on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and of the Hoover Library and a
number of other structures at Stanford University.
Buildings at the University of California, Temple Emanu-El and the California School of Fine Arts came from his drawing boards.
He had taught architecture at Harvard University and the University of California.
He wa named to membership in the Institut de France in 1926 and was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. In 1931 he
received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from his alma mater and twelve years later was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His clubs included the Pacific Union, the Bohemian, the Faculty and the Burlingame Country, as well as the Century in New York.
He is survived by his widow, the former Jessamine Garrett, and two daughters, Sylvia and Victoria Brown.
