Alfred Henry Jacobs

Alfred Henry Jacobs (1882 – December 14, 1954) was an American architect. He designed theaters, hotels, residential, and religious buildings, primarily working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Three of the buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. He also worked as a watercolorist.

Early life and education Alfred Henry Jacobs was born in 1882 in San Francisco, California to Julius and Sarah Adler Jacobs. His father Julius Jacobs was born in Prussia in 1840 and immigrated to California in 1853. In 1898 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Treasurer, in charge of the Sub-Treasury in San Francisco. He was Jewish. He graduated high school from the California School of Mechanical Arts (now Lick-Wilmerding High School). and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a B.S. degree in architecture in 1904 and an M.S. degree in architecture in 1905.

Work

Berkeley Tennis Club (1908), 2624 Hillegass Avenue, Berkeley, California; now a private home Religious school house for Congregation Emanu-El (1910), 1337 Sutter Street, San Francisco, California; NRHP–listed; later known as the Grabhorn Press building Herald Hotel (1910), 308 Eddy Street, San Francisco, California; part of the NRHP–listed Uptown Tenderloin Historic District 1244–1268 Sutter Street (1911), commercial building in Polk Gulch, San Francisco, California; later known as the Avalon Ballroom Jacobs family's residence (1915), 80-21st Avenue, San Francisco, California California Theatre (1916), 787–799 Market Street, San Francisco, California; Hotel Californian (1929; addition-only), 403 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California Butterfield and Butterfield Auctioneer building, San Francisco, California Memorial for the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum at the Home of Peace Cemetery, Colma, California Pacific Hebrew Orphanage, North Ocean Boulevard, San Francisco, California; a Jewish orphanage now demolished