Gardner Dailey

He came to California in 1915 to work for landscape architect Donald McLaren,[2] found assorted design jobs in Costa Rica and elsewhere in Central America, then served in the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a Lieutenant and pilot in World War I.

[3] Between 1919 and 1926 Dailey educated himself at the University of California Berkeley, at Stanford, at Heald's Engineering College, and during a year in Europe to study architecture.

[5] Dailey was also an inventor with two wartime patents: a demountable roof in 1941, and a shower stall with sliding screen, for the Bay Area's Rheem Manufacturing Company, in 1944.

[1] In 1952 Dailey was described as "the fine elder statesman of San Francisco architecture" who "has graduated from his office many a young architect," including Joseph Esherick.

[8] After being in ill health for months, in October 1967 Dailey committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.