Gustav Albin Pehrson
Gustav Albin Pehrson (1880–1968), known professionally as G.A. Pehrson, was an architect of the U.S. state of Washington. His work includes the Chronicle Building for the Spokane Chronicle, Rookery Building in Spokane, Washington (demolished in 2006), and other buildings in Spokane, several mansions, and the new design for a community serving the Hanford Nuclear plant, now part of Gold Coast Historic District (Richland, Washington). He also designed the Paulsen Medical and Dental Building (part of August Paulsen's Paulsen Center) in Spokane. Early life. Pehrson was born in Sweden. He attended Uppsala University and Oxford University, where  he studied architecture. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1905, ultimately settling in Spokane, Washington. Career. He worked as a draftsman for Kirtland Cutter's firm Cutter and Malgren beginning in 1913. He established his own architecture business in 1917. Soon after a prolific building period in the 1920s that included his terracotta-adorned Art Deco design work for the Chronicle Building and Paulsen Medical Building in Spokane, the Great Depression hit and the staff at Pehrson's firm fell from 29 to two. He later found work designing the new community of Richland Village (Richland, Washington), where an agricultural  town had been located. He designed government housing, schools and other buildings developed to serve the Hanford nuclear site. Washington State University has a collection of documents about his work. Works. Some of Pehrson's works are: