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E. Geoffrey Bangs
Name
Bangs, E. Geoffrey
Variant Names
Bangs, Geoffrey
Personal Information
Birth/Death: AIA notified of decease Jan. 1977
Occupation: American architect
Location (state): CA
This record has not been verified for accuracy.
AIA Affiliation
Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1927-decease
Biographical Sources
American Architects Directories:
Biographical listing in 1956 American Architects Directory
Biographical listing in 1962 American Architects Directory
Address listed in 1970 American Architects Directory
Biographical information:
Contributed by the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley:
E. Geoffrey Bangs was a Bay Area architect and a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1914 and continued on to obtain his master's the following year. His early career was spent working in the office of John Galen Howard. Bangs designed many public buildings and large-scale public housing projects in Northern California. His projects included UC Berkeley's Lewis Hall, the Contra Costa Hall of Records, and the courthouses for Shasta and Butte counties. He died in 1977.
Related Records
Archival Holdings
The American Institute of Architects Archives
Membership file may contain membership application, related correspondence. Contact the AIA Archives at archives@aia.org for further information.
Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley
Collection number: 1980-2. Extent: 1 folder, 2 flat boxes. The E. Geoffrey Bangs collection consists primarily of black and white photographs documenting numerous Bay Area residential and commercial buildings. The photographs include images of University of California, Berkeley buildings as well. Some of the photographs in the collection may be for Bangs' a photo essay entitled "Portals West: A Folio of Late Nineteenth Century Architecture in California." The collection also contains a typescript of this book, which was published by the California Historical Society. Link to online finding aid: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3b69n71t