Harrison Albright
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Harrison Albright (May 17, 1866 – January 3, 1932) was an American architect best known for his design of the West Baden Springs Hotel in Orange County, Indiana.
Biography
Born in the
He moved to Charleston, West Virginia in 1891 and was architect for the State of West Virginia in addition to designing residential projects. As State architect he designed an annex to the State Capitol, a state asylum at Huntington, West Virginia, the Miners' Hospital in Fairmont, West Virginia and buildings at Shepherd University and the Preparatory Branch of West Virginia University at Keyser.
In 1901, he was hired by Indiana hotelier Lee Wiley Sinclair to design the landmark West Baden Springs Hotel which included a 200-foot-diameter (61 m) steel and glass dome.
In 1905, he moved his architectural practice to California, working in
Harrison Albright retired from architecture for health reasons in 1925 and died in 1932.
Works
Albright's designs include:
- One Bridge Place, Charleston, West Virginia, 1898
- Upshur County Courthouse, Buckhannon, West Virginia, 1901
- West Baden Springs Hotel, 1902
- Hotel Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 1904
- expansion of Los Angeles, California, 1905
- Los Angeles, California (now home to the Southern California Institute of Architecture), 1907
- Coronado Library, Coronado, California, 1909
- U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, California, 1910
- Eli P. Clark Hotel, Los Angeles, 1912
- Spreckels Theater Building, San Diego, California, 1912
- Golden West Hotel, San Diego, 1913
- San Diego, California, 1915
- Bank of Coronado Building, Coronado, California, 1917
- Adams School, Maricopa, Arizona
- Spreckels Mansion, Coronado, California
- Waldo Hotel, Clarksburg, West Virginia
- Columbus Power House, Columbus, Indiana