Sometimes considered as a regional interpretation of the Eastern Shingle Style, it came as a reaction to the classicism of Beaux-Arts architecture.
[2] The Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley house a repository of drawings and specifications associated with this tradition.
[3] Joseph Worcester – a minister, mystic, and amateur architect, is believed to have developed the First Bay Tradition in its early stages.
Page Brown, Ernest Coxhead, John Galen Howard, Julia Morgan, Louis Christian Mullgardt, and A. C.
Transitional architects associated with the bridge between these two traditions were Henry Higby Gutterson and John Hudson Thomas.