Mark Daniels

Mark Roy Daniels (July 14, 1881 – January 14, 1952) was an architect, landscape architect, civil engineer, and city planner active in California. He was known for creating plans that incorporated existing natural features in order to preserve a sense of local character. He worked on master plans for the development of neighborhoods in San Francisco and the East Bay, on the Monterey Peninsula, in Los Angeles, and elsewhere. In the years immediately preceding the formation of the National Park System, he was briefly the general superintendent and landscape engineer for the entire system of national parks under the United States Department of the Interior.

Education and family Daniels was born in Spring Arbor, Michigan. Chinese Village at Golden Gate International Exposition (1939–40)