Harrison Albright

Upshur County Court House, Buckhannon, West Virginia built 1899-1901.

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 Ogontz neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Albright was educated in the local public schools and at the Peirce College of Business and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In 1886, he began his architecture business designing residential and public projects in Philadelphia.

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 steel and glass dome.

In 1905, he moved his architectural practice to California, working in Los Angeles and San Diego, as an early proponent of reinforced concrete construction.

John L. Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright, was employed in the Albright firm.

Harrison Albright retired from architecture for health reasons in 1925 and died in 1932 at age 65.

Works Albright's designs include: Citizens' National Bank Building, southwest corner 3rd & Main, Los Angeles, 1897 (demolished, now site of Ronald Reagan State Office Building) 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 Homer Laughlin Building Annex/Lyon Building, Los Angeles, California, 1905 Santa Fe Freight Depot, 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 Spreckels Organ Pavilion, 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