User:B137/John Graham

John Graham & Company, or John Graham & Associates is the name of an architectural firm, founded by John Graham, which originated in Seattle, Washington, in 1900. The firm was merged into the DLR Group on May 19, 1986, and the name saw full deletion in 1998.

John Graham & Company is responsible for the architecture of over 30 metropolitan structures, including two complexes. Included are The Space Needle, the Chase Tower of Rochester, New York, and the South Tower of The Westin Seattle.

John Graham
John Graham was born in Liverpool, England. First visiting Seattle in 1896, he immigrated to the United States in 1900, starting an architectural practice in Seatle. As architecht for the Ford Motor Company, he designed more than 30 of Ford's assembaly plants. He designed Seattle's Frederick & Nelson store (now Nordstroms) in 1916.

John Graham Jr.
John Graham's son graduated from Yale University and joined his father's firm in New York in 1937. Renaming the firm to John Graham & Company after World War 2, he designed Seatle's Northgate Shopping Center in 1947.

Structures
First listed is the name, then the floor count, then the year construction was completed. Feel free to format this into a table.


 * Chase Tower (Rochester) 27 1973
 * Space Needle  1962
 * Southern Union Tower 20 1980
 * ABC Building 33 1976
 * Holiday Park Plaza 16 1967
 * AIA Building 12 1958


 * 1. Sheraton Seattle Hotel  34 1982
 * 2. Lloyd Center Tower  20 1981
 * 3. US Federal Building & Courthouse  6 1981
 * 4. Qwest Plaza  33 1976
 * 5. One Capital Center  14 1975
 * 6. State Office Building  11 1975
 * 7. Henry M. Jackson Federal Building  37 1974
 * 8. 901 Fifth Avenue  42 1973
 * 9. Ala Moana Hotel  38 1970
 * 10. Westin Seattle South Tower  40 1969 - Part of the Westin Seattle Complex
 * 11. 44 Montgomery  43 1967
 * 12. Space Needle  6 1962
 * 13. Ala Moana Building  23 1960
 * 14. Amazon.com Building  16 1932
 * 15. Tacoma Municipal Building  17 1931
 * 16. Exchange Building  23 1930
 * 17. The Roosevelt  20 1929
 * 18. Joseph Vance Building  14 1929
 * 19. Hartford Building  2 1929
 * 20. Macy's  7 1928
 * 21. Hotel Georgia  12 1927
 * 22. Montague & McHugh Building  5 1927
 * 23. Washington Building  17 1925
 * 24. Dexter Horton Building  14 1924
 * 25. Nordstrom  10 1918
 * 26. Securities Building  10 1918
 * 27. Joshua Green Building  10 1910

Complexes

 * Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki
 * The Westin Seattle