Levi Goodrich

Levi Goodrich (1822–1887) was an American architect based in San Jose, California. His most notable projects include San Jose City Hall, Santa Clara County Courthouse, San Jose City Hall, and California State Normal School. Goodrich's wife, Sarah Knox-Goodrich, was a well known activist who worked for women's suffrage in California.

Biography Levi Goodrich was born January 1, 1822, in New York City. His parents died when he was young, and he lived with relatives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Goodrich became a carpenter, then studied architecture in the office of R. G Hatfield in New York City.

On March 8, 1849, Goodrich sailed for California via Cape Horn on the ship Loochoo arriving on September 16, 1849. He traveled with a large quantity of building materials and sold them upon arriving in San Francisco. Soon after arriving, he designed the Parker house, a wood-framed building on Portsmouth Square. The building, at the corner of Washington and Kearny Streets, was built to replace tents used by gold rush miners. It was reportedly the first work in San Francisco by a professional architect. 1863, First Presbyterian Church of San Jose; destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake 1866–1868, Santa Clara County Courthouse, 161 North 1st Street, a two-story Neoclassical building with a dome, overlooking St. James Square; destroyed by fire in 1931 1869–1871, county jailhouse 1880, California State Normal School University of the Pacific Also, Knox Block (Goodrich's office was in room 20 of this building), three public school buildings, Bank of San Jose, and Martin Block

San Diego

1872, San Diego County Courthouse, a Classical-style building on land donated by Alonzo E. Horton 1882, Independent Order of Odd Fellows building, at 526 Market Street, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Other places Monterey County Courthouse 1949, Parker House Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Goodrich Quarry In 1874, Goodrich purchased a 500-acre sandstone quarry that came to be known as Goodrich's Free-Stone Quarry. The quarry is about eight miles south of San Jose in the Santa Teresa Hills on the eastern slope of the Almaden Valley. After Goodrich's death, the quarry was leased, and then sold, to the quarry's stone master Jacob Pfeiffer. It was renamed Graystone Quarry.