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Charles W. Dickey Hawaii Architect - Dickey Homes - PART II of III
Charles Dickey Homes & Buildings - The California Years.
In 1905, Charles Dickey moved back from Honolulu, Oahu to California. This was a smart move, as the commissions in Hawaii were definitely slowing. He spent spent the next 19 years working and specializing in commercial construction (offices, schools, churches, etc.) throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the East Bay communities of Berkeley and Oakland, where he had his office.
Perhaps the most important and prominent building that Dickey (and his then partner, Walter D. Reed) designed, during his years in California, was the prolific Claremont Hotel in the Oakland hills. This still-operational hotel is a massive wood shingled Elizabethan style structure, with Tudor and Queen Anne details, and over 300 rooms. Charles Dickey and Walter Reed beat out three other formidable competing architecture firms for this contract in 1906, the same year as the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. The hotel was finished in 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific Exhibition. Learning from the San Francisco earthquake, Dickey went on to build many more commerical office structures that were seen to be cutting edge for the time in terms of both technical stability and their fire resistance. Many ... more

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