{{short description|American architect}} '''Allen Aaron Cook''' (April 20, 1832 – February 12, 1899), usually known as '''A. A. Cook''', was an American architect who came to Sacramento, California in 1870. He designed numerous buildings around the state, including a number which are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture.
==Biography== Cook was born on April 20, 1832, in Chenango County, New York. His parents moved to Albany, New York in that year, which is where Cook grew up and attended school.<ref name=bio>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/illustratedhisto00davi#page/788/mode/2up |author=Winfield J. Davis |title= An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California |pages= 789–790 |publisher= Lewis Publishing Company |year=1890}}</ref> He married Maria Midler of Pennsylvania on January 12, 1870, in Douglas, NE; they had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood.<ref name=bio /> Two other children died of measles on 21 March 21, 1882.
He died in Shingle Springs, California, on February 12, 1899.<ref>newspapers.com, The Record Union, Sacramento, CA 16 Feb 1899, Page 3</ref>
==Selected works== *the Wheatland Masonic Temple, in Wheatland, California, NRHP-listed<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> *the Odd Fellows Building (1882–83) in Red Bluff, California, NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/><ref name=nrhpdoc-redbluff>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=76000537}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Odd Fellows Building / Odd Fellows Hall |publisher=National Park Service |author=Winchell T. Hayward |date=March 18, 1976 |accessdate=October 16, 2016 }} with {{NRHP url|id=76000537|photos=y|title=four photos from 1976}}</ref> *Cone and Kimball Building at 747 Main St. in Red Bluff, NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/><ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=cd205b8c-0623-497e-b17d-c5880a4ed791 nps.gov] </ref> *Pleasants Ranch at 8212 Pleasants Valley Rd. in Vacaville, California, NRHP-listed<ref name=nris/> *courthouse at Redding<ref name=bio/> *Stansbury Home (1883), Chico, California, NRHP-listed<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stansburyhome.org/history-of-the-stansbury-home.html |title=History of the Stansbury Home |access-date=2016-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105161302/http://www.stansburyhome.org/history-of-the-stansbury-home.html |archive-date=2016-11-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/75000424 nps.gov]</ref> *Hotel DeVilbiss (1899-90), 2-10 Main Street, Winters, California, a contributing building in the NRHP-listed Downtown Winters Historic District<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discoverwinters.com/2010/08/historic-main-street-walking-tour/ |title=Main Street Walking Tour |access-date=2016-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228130605/http://discoverwinters.com/2010/08/historic-main-street-walking-tour/ |archive-date=2016-12-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset?assetID=caadb595-c426-4f41-a0d8-e4810ae8f181 NRHP document]</ref> *state prison at Folsom, California<ref name=bio/> *Western Hotel, Sacramento, a listed California Historical Landmark<ref name=bio/> *Hale's Block, Sacramento<ref name=bio/> *county hospitals in Colusa, Mendocino and Tehama<ref name=bio/> *churches at Redding, Sacramento, Stockton, and Wheatland<ref name=bio/> *Nevada State Asylum<ref name=bio/>
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