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| Architect Albert Farr |
Market value is about $9.2 million.
Albert L. Farr was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but spent most of his childhood in Yokohama, Japan where his father had been assigned by the U.S. Government to assist the Japanese in the installation of a modern postal system. The family returned to the United States and moved to the Bay Area in 1891.
Farr received his early training as a draftsman in the office of architect Clinton Day, beginning in 1893. After a brief spell as a furniture designer, he returned to architecture as a draftsman for the Reid Brothers. In 1897 he opened his own practice and he obtained one of the first State architectural licenses issued (A180) in August 1901.
Like his contemporary Edgar Mathews, Farr is often associated with the craftsman style of rustic city house, with its exterior typically covered with brown shingles. The work of Ernest Coxhead and Willis Polk was initially influential to Farr, but he was not afraid to experiment and extend the genre.
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