U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals) National Historic Landmark Nomination
Lamprecht B, Davis C, Jacobs JA. 2012. U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals) National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 71000188_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals) in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California. The NHL nomination for the Browning Courthouse documents its national significance under NHL Criterion 4. Designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, the Beaux-Arts Renaissance Revival building exhibits a complex merger of state-of-the-art engineering with a number of artistic disciplines. Completed in 1905, the post office and courthouse was conceived and realized against the backdrop of the Tarsney Act, which opened large federal building projects to competition by private architects. The courthouse demonstrated that the Supervising Architect’s Office possessed the ability to produce a building on par with government buildings designed by private architects. The period of significance is 1897-1910.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Lamprecht, Barbara; Davis, Colleen; Jacobs, James
- Date of Issue
- 2012-10-16
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- architecture, Beaux-Arts, California, James Knox Taylor, public buildings, Renaissance Revival, San Francisco, William Martin Aiken