Clinton Day

Clinton Day (March 17, 1847 - January 11, 1916) was a noted architect active on the west coast of the United States.

Day was born in Brooklyn, and moved to California when 8 years old. His grandfather, Jeremiah Day, was president of Yale University, and his father, Sherman Day, was Surveyor-General of California and one of the founders of the College of California, predecessor to the University of California, Berkeley. Day graduated from the College of California in 1868, and received his MA from the same institution in 1874. (He later received an honorary LLD from the college in 1910.) In 1875 he married Grace Wakefield from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As an architect, he designed some of San Francisco's finest buildings, including the City of Paris building, Union Trust building, and Gump's department store; several buildings at the University of California, Berkeley; and a number of fine houses in Oakland, California, including the Treadwell Mansion. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

References

• Obituary in the The Architect and Engineer of California, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, January, 1916, pages 87–88.
• Archives, University of California, Berkeley
• NoeHill in San Francisco - Bay Area Architects: Clinton Day
• Wikitree entry