Reid & Reid

"Reid Brothers" redirects here. For the Scottish engineering company, see Reid Brothers (Glasgow).

Reid & Reid
Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, California
Practice information
Key architects	James W. Reid Merritt J. Reid Watson Elkinah Reid
Location	San Francisco San Diego
Founded	1879
Date of dissolution	1932
Work
Buildings	Willard Library Hotel del Coronado The Call Building Fairmont San Francisco

Reid & Reid was the architectural and engineering firm of brothers, James W. Reid (1851-1943), Merritt J. Reid (1855-1932), and Watson Elkinah Reid (1858-1944) that began in Evansville, Indiana in 1879.

Notable projects

• 1877 Willard Library, Evansville, Indiana
• 1888 Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, California
• 1890 Germond Block, Spokane, Washington
• 1891 Business Men's Association Building, Evansville, Indiana (later the Grein Building, demolished 1972)
• 1892 The Oregonian Building, Portland, Oregon (demolished 1950)
• 1898 The Call Building (now Central Tower), San Francisco
• 1907 Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco
• 1907 Merritt Building, San Francisco, San Francisco
• 1909 222 Sutter Street, San Francisco
• 1909 Cliff House, San Francisco
• 1911 Yeon Building, Portland, Oregon
• 1912 The Oregon Journal Building (now Jackson Tower), Portland, Oregon
• 1926 Golden State Theatre, Monterey, California
• 1926 Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, California
• 1929 New Sequoia Theater Building, Redwood City, California

• Destroyed, demolished or significantly altered
• Grein Building (BMA 1895).jpg

  Grein Building (c.1895)

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  The Oregonian Building

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  Call building (now Central Tower) before 1938 redesign

See also

• Charles T. Hinde
• Grand Rapids Hotel
• Hotel del Coronado

Further reading

• Cynthia Barwick Malinick, "The lives and works of the Reid brothers, architects 1852-1943," (M.A. thesis, University of San Diego, 1992)

External links

• Reid & Reid at Emporis
• Theatres by the Reid Brothers via Cinema Treasures