Carol I checked the San Francisco Directories, and found the following: Sept of 1852: Was not listed 1854: England, Thomas, architect office Brenham Place Oct 1856: England, Thomas, Architect, Crine and England, Brenham pl. 1856-57: Architect Crane and England, 15 County Building, Brenham Pl. 1858: Architect, William Craine and Thomas England, at 182 Washington 1859: the same as 1858 1859-60: Architect, office 140 Clay, dwl Powell and Greenwich 1860-61: Same office, but now at Pacific nr Powell 1861-62: Office 528 Clay, dwl S.E. Corner Chestnut and Hyde 1862-63: Office room 14, 528 Clay, dwl Corner Larkin and Chestnut 1863-64: office same, dwl S.E. Corner Hyde and Chestnut 1864-65: Now with a Thomas Turnbull, 528 Clay, home the same 1865-66: All the same 1867-68: By himself, at 622 Clay, dwl N.W. Corner Powell and Greenwich 1868-69: Same 1869-70: Office 622 Clay, lives in Oakland. Found him listed in this book: Architectural records in the San Francisco Bay Area : a guide to research /,California Cooperative Preservation of Architectural Records ; Waverly B. Lowell, Where the California Historical Society, has Craine and England documents for Old St. Mary 1853-55 Hope this is of help George > -----Original Message----- > From: PJones2536@aol.com [mailto:PJones2536@aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:56 AM > To: CASANFRA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CASANFRA] Newspaper Query > > > Hi Listers , > My ggg uncle was an Architect in > California between 1852-1869 . > Among his works in SF are St Francis of Assisi on > Vallejo Street , Old St > Marys Cathedral on California Street , a Baptist > Church in 1855 , 2 Fire > Engine Houses in 1855 , St Marys College in 1863 > (demolished) , a Synagogue > in 1854 , and many other unknown buildings in SF and > other places in > California . (Stockton , Grass valley , Sacremento > etc) > If I contacted the SF public library , would they be > able to find accounts > of > the opening ceremonies of these places in the old > newspapers ? > He also mentions in one of his letters dated July > 1855 that his name was in > the newspaper recently and that he was enjoying some > success at that time . > I would like to be able to locate this article . > Would the SF library assist > me ? Or is there another way of doing it ? > > Regards > Carol in Wales UK > > > > ==== NORCAL Mailing List ==== > To contact Yvonne Bowers, Listmom, send email to > <NORCAL-admin@rootsweb.com> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com