Hart began his architectural career in Denver , finding work in 1898 as a draftsman for the firm of Willis A. Marean and Albert J. Norton , who later designed the Colorado Governor 's Mansion ( 1908 ) . In 1900 , he joined Frank E. Edbrooke & Company , who had designed the Brown Palace Hotel ( 1892 ) . By 1902 , he had moved to California , where he spent a year drafting plans for new campus building of Stanford University , where conservative Richardsonian Romanesque detail adorned newly evolving California Mission Revival Style architecture under the guidance of Boston-based Shepley , Rutan & Coolidge . At Stanford , he was also exposed to the landscape architecture of Frederick Law Olmsted . He then spent a year working for the young firm of Meyer and O'Brien before joining the firm of Bliss and Faville just in time to work on their most famous project , the St. Francis Hotel , and other major buildings arising from the ashes of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 , including the Neoclassical architecture of the Bank of California and the more Beaux-Arts style of the Union Savings Bank ( 1909 ) , the Columbia ( now Geary ) Theater ( 1909 ) , and the Masonic Temple ( 1912 )
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