James Flood Walker Explained

James Flood Walker
Birth Date:	1868
Death Date:	February 24, 1924
Death Place:	Santa Barbara, California
Other Names:	J. Flood Walker
Significant Buildings:	The St. Anthony Hotel

James Flood Walker (1868-February 24, 1924) was an architect in the United States who worked in Los Angeles, Seattle, Boise, and San Antonio. Some of Walker's work is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Dr. Frank R. Burroughs House and the St. Anthony Hotel. Other buildings designed by Walker are part of National Register historic districts, including the West End Theatre and the Lawrence Building listed in the Downtown Santa Ana Historic Districts. And Walker designed the John T. Morrison House, listed in the State Street Historic District in Boise.

Career

Walker began his career in Los Angeles, working for Robert Brown Young. Later he located in Seattle and formed a partnership with Edward C. McManus.^[1] While in Boise, Walker designed the Idaho Building for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. After the Exposition, Walker moved to San Antonio, and he later returned to California.

Death

Walker died in Santa Barbara in 1924.^[2]

Oro Vista Mining and Milling Company

In 1896 Walker became a director and minor shareholder in the Oro Vista Mining and Milling Co. of California.^[3] By 1905, the company charter had been forfeited for nonpayment of business taxes.^[4]

If an association existed between James Flood Walker and Comstock Lode miner James Clair Flood, it has not been established.

Works

Ritzville, Washington

• Dr. Frank R. Burroughs House (1890)

Seattle

• M.F. Backus Apartment Building (1901)
• M.S. Boothe House (1902)
• Cyrus F. Clapp Building (1902)
• H.E. Daniels House (1902)
• George W. Dilling House (1902)
• Carrie B. Friend Apartment Building (1902)
• W.K. Green Houses (1902)
• Rosa Lobe Apartment Building (1901)
• W.D. Perkins House (1902)

St. Louis, Missouri

• Idaho Building (1904)

St. Anthony, Idaho

• Juvenile Correctional Center (1904)^[5]

Twin Falls

• Hotel Perrine (1905)^[6]

Boise

• John T. Morrison House (1905)
• "State Street House" 2124 W. State St. (Boise,Idaho) (Home of Benjamin Anders & John Parsons (1924)

San Antonio, Texas

• St. Anthony Hotel (1909)

Pasadena, California

• Mission Court

Santa Ana

• West End Theatre (1915)
• Lawrence Building (1915)^[7]

External links

• • Death of Santa Barbara Architect, The Architect and Engineer (March 1924), pp 109

Notes and References

1. Web site: James Flood Walker (Architect) . Pacific Coast Architecture Database . January 8, 2019.
2. Web site: Santa Barbara Cemetery WA . Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society . January 8, 2019.
3. News: New Mining Company . The Herald . Los Angeles . June 10, 1896 . 10 . January 8, 2019.
4. Book: Certified Copy of Compiled Statement of Domestic Corporations Whose Charters Have Been Forfeited... . California State Printing Office . 1906 . January 8, 2019.
5. News: JCC: The first 50 years . Lynette Staker . Standard Journal . June 9, 2003 . January 7, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190108152238/https://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/jcc-the-first-years/article_840e1a1e-cb2f-5187-a122-97fd5188983d.html . January 8, 2019.
6. News: Hidden History: Buildings Lost over the Years . Mychel Matthews . Times-News . Twin Falls, Idaho . April 4, 2013 . January 8, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160817150325/https://magicvalley.com/news/local/hidden-history-buildings-lost-over-the-years/article_0f0b76e6-f919-57de-86d9-3cf4734943b4.html . August 17, 2016.
7. Book: Ronald Reagan Federal Building-United States Courthouse, Orange County: Environmental Impact Statement . Mitra Nejad . Fugro-McClelland (West), Inc. . 1994 . January 8, 2019.