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Augustus Laver (19 or 20 September 1834 – 27 March 1898) was a Canadian architect. He worked for Thomas Stent and later designed extensive alterations and additions to Ottawa's Russell Hotel, as well as East Block and West Block on Parliament Hill. He entered the 1866 competition to design the New York State capitol at Albany and was awarded one of the premiums, participated with Thomas Fuller, and Arthur Delavan Gilman in planning a revised design. In Albany he partnered with Fuller, but after controversy neither partner saw the project to completion. In 1871 Stent and Laver won the competition to design the new city hall and law courts for San Francisco. Eight years after Laver's death, the unfinished building was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake.

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rdfs:comment	Augustus Laver (19 or 20 September 1834 – 27 March 1898) was a Canadian architect. He worked for Thomas Stent and later designed extensive alterations and additions to Ottawa's Russell Hotel, as well as East Block and West Block on Parliament Hill. He entered the 1866 competition to design the New York State capitol at Albany and was awarded one of the premiums, participated with Thomas Fuller, and Arthur Delavan Gilman in planning a revised design. In Albany he partnered with Fuller, but after controversy neither partner saw the project to completion. In 1871 Stent and Laver won the competition to design the new city hall and law courts for San Francisco. Eight years after Laver's death, the unfinished building was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake. (en)
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has abstract	Augustus Laver (19 or 20 September 1834 – 27 March 1898) was a Canadian architect. He worked for Thomas Stent and later designed extensive alterations and additions to Ottawa's Russell Hotel, as well as East Block and West Block on Parliament Hill. He entered the 1866 competition to design the New York State capitol at Albany and was awarded one of the premiums, participated with Thomas Fuller, and Arthur Delavan Gilman in planning a revised design. In Albany he partnered with Fuller, but after controversy neither partner saw the project to completion. In 1871 Stent and Laver won the competition to design the new city hall and law courts for San Francisco. Eight years after Laver's death, the unfinished building was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake. Laver was the architect of San Francisco's first brownstone, the neo classical James C. Flood Mansion and, not far away, in Oakland, the grand Victorian, Ellen Kenna house. He was involved with the Royal Institute of British Architects, was president of the and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Laver was born in Folkestone, England. His father, , was a leading solicitor and his mother Mary Ann—; m. 9 June 1859 Elizabeth Fox in Dover, England, had twin sons and a daughter. He died on 27 March 1898 in Alameda, California. (en)
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