Albert Pissis

Albert Pissis (1852–1914) was a prolific Mexican-born American architect, of French and Mexican descent. He was active in San Francisco and had studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. He is credited with introducing the Beaux-Arts architectural style to San Francisco, California, designing a number of important buildings in the city in the years before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Early life and education Pissis was born on April 26, 1852, in Guaymas in the Mexican state of Sonora. His father was Jose Etienne Pissis (1808–1880), a native of France and a physician, who moved his family to San Francisco, California from Guaymas when Pissis was six. His mother was Juana Bazozabel "Jane" de Bustamante (1824–1893), a native of Guaymas.

Pissis was one of the first Americans to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.

Pissis played a major role in San Francisco's reconstruction following the Great Earthquake of 1906, both as a designer of a number of the city's landmark buildings,

Notable works

Among the buildings Pissis designed are: Hotel Cecil (1906), 156–160 Eddy Street, San Francisco, California; part of the Uptown Tenderloin Historic District Hibernia Bank building (1892), McAllister and Jones Streets, San Francisco, California