page_title: Alfred Henry Jacobs
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Henry Jacobs / Work
caption_attribution_description: w:National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco, California. Herald Hotel, 308 Eddy St., San Francisco, California, USA. Photographed from the southeast corner of Eddy and Jones Sts. Camera location37°&#160;47′&#160;01.75″&#160;N, 122°&#160;24′&#160;44.95″&#160;W&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Alfred Henry Jacobs was an American architect. He designed theaters, hotels, and religious buildings. Three of the buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The University of California, Berkeley has a collection of his papers, drawings, and photographs.
  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.
  Alfred Henry Jacobs was born in San Francisco in 1882 to Julius and Sarah Adler Jacobs. He graduated from the California School of Mechanical Arts. He studied at University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a B.S. degree in architecture in 1904 and an M.S. degree in architecture in 1905. He did further studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.
  Back in San Francisco by 1907, he partnered with Walter Ratcliff and helped design the Berkeley Tennis Club. In 1909, he joined San Francisco's Fidelity Lodge, Number 120, Free and Accepted Masons of California and established his own firm.
  He married Lillian Wollenberg in 1908.
context_section_description: Berkeley Tennis Club (1908)
  Religious School House for Congregation Emanu-El (1910), now the Grabhorn Press building at 1337 Sutter Street in San Francisco, California Jacobs, Alfred Henry NRHP Listed
  Herald Hotel, 308 Eddy St. San Francisco, CA Jacobs, Alfred Henry NRHP Listed
  Memorial for the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum at the Home of Peace Cemetery in Colma, California
  Commercial building at 1244-1268 Sutter Street (1911)
  Jacobs family's residence (1915) at 80 21st Avenue in San Francisco
  California Theater (1916), renamed the State Theatre, at 787-799 Market Street in San Francisco, torn down in 1954
  Winema Theater (1920) on Main Street in Scotia, California. Made with redwood.
  Curran Theater (1921–1922) at 445 Geary Street in San Francisco
  Granada Theater (1920–1921) renamed the Paramount Theatre. Dismantled in 1965
  Homewood Terrace (1920–1921) for the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society, San Francisco
  House for Ansel Adams (1929) at 129 24th Avenue in San Francisco
  Butterfield and Butterfield Auctioneer building
  Jewish orphanage (demolished)
caption: Herald Hotel
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