# Levi Goodrich

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{{Short description|American architect (1822–1887)}}
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'''Levi Goodrich''' (1822–1887) was an American [architect](/source/architect) based in [San Jose, California](/source/San_Jose%2C_California). His most notable projects include [San Jose City Hall](/source/San_Jose_City_Hall), [Santa Clara County Courthouse](/source/Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court), [San Jose City Hall](/source/San_Jose_City_Hall), and [California State Normal School](/source/California_State_Normal_School). Goodrich's wife, [Sarah Knox-Goodrich](/source/Sarah_Knox-Goodrich), was a well known activist who worked for [women's suffrage](/source/women's_suffrage) in California.

==Biography==
Levi Goodrich was born January 1, 1822, in [New York City](/source/New_York_City). His parents died when he was young, and he lived with relatives in [Stockbridge, Massachusetts](/source/Stockbridge%2C_Massachusetts). Goodrich became a carpenter, then studied architecture in the office of R. G Hatfield in New York City.{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=759}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}

[[File:CF1850 PORTSMOUTH SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO.jpg|thumbnail|[Portsmouth Square](/source/Portsmouth_Square), San Francisco, with the Parker Hotel in the background]]
On March 8, 1849, Goodrich sailed for [California](/source/California) via [Cape Horn](/source/Cape_Horn) on the ship ''Loochoo'' arriving on September 16, 1849. He traveled with a large quantity of building materials and sold them upon arriving in [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco). Soon after arriving, he designed the Parker house, a wood-framed building on [Portsmouth Square](/source/Portsmouth_Square). The building, at the corner of Washington and [Kearny Street](/source/Kearny_Street)s, was built to replace tents used by [gold rush](/source/gold_rush) miners. It was reportedly the first work in San Francisco by a professional architect.{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=759}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}{{sfn|Kirker|1960|p=41–42}}<ref name=pcad />

Goodrich moved to [San Jose, California](/source/San_Jose%2C_California), in November 1849. His architectural offices were in the Knox Block.{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=759}}{{sfn|Langley|1867|p=239}}

On April 13, 1854, Goodrich married Juliet Peck. They had a son, E. B. Goodrich, who joined his father's office and, eventually, succeeded him.{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}

Goodrich married [Sarah Knox](/source/Sarah_Knox-Goodrich) on January 15, 1879. She was prominent in the cause of [equal rights for women](/source/equal_rights_for_women), fully supported by her husband.{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}

Goodrich retired in 1886. On April 2, 1887, he suffered an attack of [apoplexy](/source/apoplexy) while visiting [San Diego](/source/San_Diego) with his wife, and quickly died. He is buried in [Oak Hill Cemetery](/source/Oak_Hill_Memorial_Park) in San Jose.<ref>{{cite news |title=Levi Goodrich |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13520467/levi_goodrich |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=4 April 1887 |pages=8 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322005646/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13520467/levi-goodrich/ |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=scscourt />

==Buildings==
===San Jose===
[[File:USA-San Jose-Thomas Fallon House-6.jpg|thumbnail|[Thomas Fallon](/source/Thomas_Fallon) House, San Jose]]
[[File:(San Jose City Hall, 1854).png|thumbnail|[San Jose City Hall](/source/San_Jose_City_Hall), San Jose]]
[[File:Santa Clara County Courthouse, 1869.jpg|thumbnail|[Santa Clara County Courthouse](/source/Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court), San Jose]]
[[File:California State Normal School, San Jose LCCN2003681544.tif|thumbnail|[California State Normal School](/source/California_State_Normal_School), San Jose]]
* 1851, an [adobe](/source/adobe) house at Santa Clara and Lightstone Streets, with [J. D. Hoppe](/source/Jacob_David_Hoppe){{sfn|Foote|1888|p=135}}
* 1851, two one-story adobe buildings on Santa Clara Street, for Frank Lightson{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=376}}
* 1853, part of the [Women's College of Notre Dame and convent](/source/Notre_Dame_High_School_(San_Jose%2C_California)){{sfn|Foote|1888|p=135 and 144}}
* c. 1854, [Thomas Fallon](/source/Thomas_Fallon) House, 175 West St. John Street, a two-story [Italianate](/source/Italianate) villa, now a museum{{sfn|Cerny|2007|p=202}}
* 1855, [San Jose City Hall](/source/San_Jose_City_Hall), 35 North Market Street, designed to resemble a medieval castle with parapets and towers; destroyed in the [1906 San Francisco earthquake](/source/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake)<ref>{{cite web |title=Notes From the Underbelly |url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.16.03/underbelly-0303.html |website=www.metrosiliconvalley.com |access-date=March 21, 2022 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705135856/https://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.16.03/underbelly-0303.html |archivedate=2008-07-05 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=399}}
* 1863, [First Presbyterian Church of San Jose](/source/First_Presbyterian_Church_of_San_Jose); destroyed in the [1906 San Francisco earthquake](/source/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake){{sfn|Hall|1871|p=200}}{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}
* 1866–1868, [Santa Clara County Courthouse](/source/Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court), 161 North 1st Street, a two-story [Neoclassical](/source/Neoclassical_architecture) building with a dome, overlooking [St. James Square](/source/St._James_Park_(San_Jose)); destroyed by fire in 1931{{sfn|Munro-Fraser|1881|p=141}}
* 1869–1871, county jailhouse<ref name=scscourt>{{cite web |url=http://www.scscourt.org/general_info/community/och_history.shtml#Building |title=Old courthouse history |work=www.scscourt.org |accessdate=October 10, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130083312/https://www.scscourt.org/general_info/community/och_history.shtml |archivedate=2022-11-30 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=140}}<ref>{{cite news |title=To Builders |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN18700430.2.8.2&srpos=9&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-levi+goodrich-------1 |access-date=March 27, 2022 |work=San Jose Daily Mercury |publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection |date=April 30, 1870}}</ref>
* 1880, [California State Normal School](/source/California_State_Normal_School)<ref>{{cite news |title=Normal School, San Jose |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98088637/normal-school-san-jose/ |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=Oakland Tribune |date=20 April 1880 |pages=3 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322005644/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98088637/normal-school-san-jose/ |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [University of the Pacific](/source/University_of_the_Pacific_(United_States)){{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}
* Also, Knox Block (Goodrich's office was in room 20 of this building), three public school buildings, Bank of San Jose, and Martin Block{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}<ref>{{cite news |title=The New School Building |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98090708/the-new-school-building/ |access-date=March 21, 2022 |work=Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel |date=4 April 1875 |pages=3 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322005648/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98090708/the-new-school-building/ |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===San Diego===
[[File:San diego Courthouse, c. 1874.jpg|thumbnail|[San Diego County Courthouse](/source/San_Diego_County_Superior_Court)]]
[[File:Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building, San Diego.jpg|thumbnail|[Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building](/source/Independent_Order_of_Odd_Fellows_Building_(San_Diego)), San Diego]]
* 1872, San Diego County Courthouse, a Classical-style building on land donated by Alonzo E. Horton<ref>{{cite web |last1=Showley |first1=Roger |title=Four downtown courthouses, 1872-1996 |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/sdut-courthouse-history-downtown-2014feb21-story.html |website=San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=March 22, 2022 |date=February 21, 2014 |url-access=subscription  |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322182849/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/growth-development/sdut-courthouse-history-downtown-2014feb21-story.html |archivedate=2022-03-22 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1882, [Independent Order of Odd Fellows building](/source/Independent_Order_of_Odd_Fellows_Building_(San_Diego)), at 526 Market Street, listed on the National Register of Historic Places<ref>{{cite web |title=Independent Order of Odd Fellows building nomination form |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/c05a7b62-36d5-4c96-bd87-cfeb35425581/ |website=npgallery.nps.gov |access-date=March 22, 2022}}</ref>

===Other places===
* Monterey County Courthouse{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=225–229}}
* 1949, Parker House Hotel, San Francisco, CA<ref name=pcad>{{cite web |title=PCAD - Parker House Hotel, San Francisco, CA |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/17406/ |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu |access-date=March 22, 2022}}</ref>{{sfn|Kirker|1960|p=41–42}}

==Goodrich Quarry==
In 1874, Goodrich purchased a 500-acre sandstone [quarry](/source/quarry) that came to be known as Goodrich's Free-Stone Quarry. The quarry is about eight miles south of San Jose in the [Santa Teresa Hills](/source/Santa_Teresa_Hills) on the eastern slope of the [Almaden Valley](/source/Almaden_Valley). After Goodrich's death, the quarry was leased, and then sold, to the quarry's stone master Jacob Pfeiffer. It was renamed [Graystone Quarry](/source/Almaden_Valley%2C_San_Jose).<ref name=lehigh>{{cite web |title=Lehigh Permanente Quarry Reclamation Plan Amendment: Draft Environmental Impact Report |url=https://www.sccgov.org/sites/dpd/DocsForms/Documents/Lehigh_DEIR_201112_Ch10_AppendixD.pdf |website=www.sccgov.org |date=December 2011 |access-date=March 25, 2022}}</ref><ref name=stanford />

The stone from the Goodrich/Graystone quarry has been used in many California buildings including the front walls and cornices of the [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) quadrangle the [Santa Clara County Courthouse](/source/Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court), U.S. Post Office in San Jose (now the [San Jose Museum of Art](/source/San_Jose_Museum_of_Art)), [California State Normal School](/source/California_State_Normal_School), [Lick Observatory](/source/Lick_Observatory), [University of the Pacific](/source/University_of_the_Pacific_(United_States)), the [Knox-Goodrich Building](/source/Sarah_Knox-Goodrich), [San Carlos Railroad Depot](/source/San_Carlos_station), and [Agnews State Hospital](/source/Agnews_State_Hospital).<ref name=stanford>{{cite news |title=Old Quarry Source for Quad Stone |last=Canfield |first=Dave | url=https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1957/04/03?page=4&section=MODSMD_ARTICLE35#article | work=The Stanford Daily |date= April 3, 1957 |volume=131 |issue=27 |page=4}}</ref><ref name=pcad />{{sfn|Foote|1888|p=139–140}}{{sfn|Cerny|2007|p=149–150, 204, 205, 210}}{{sfn|Kirker|1960|p=72–73, 102}}

== References ==
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==Sources==
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* {{cite book|last=Cerny|first=Susan Dinkelspiel|title=An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area|year=2007|publisher=Gibbs Smith|isbn=978-1-58685-432-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Foote|first=Horace S.|title=Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, Or, Santa Clara County California|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N_lAAQAAMAAJ|year=1888|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company}}
* {{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Frederic |title=The history of San José and surroundings : with biographical sketches of early settlers |date=1871 |publisher=San Francisco : A.L. Bancroft and Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/historysanjosan00hallgoog}}
* {{cite book |last=Kirker |first=Harold |date=1960 |title=California's Architectural Frontier |publisher=Russell & Russell |language=English |isbn= |oclc=750011 }}
* {{cite book |last=Langley |first=Henry G. |date=1867 |title=The Pacific Coast Business Directory for the State of California |url=https://archive.org/details/pacificcoastbusi187678lang |publisher=H. G. Langley |language=English |page=239 |isbn= }}
* {{cite book|last=Munro-Fraser|first=J. P. |title=History of Santa Clara County, California: Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography and Description ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_Vwe-eHfqsC|year=1881|publisher=Alley, Bowen, & Company}}
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