Augustus Laver

Laver was born in Folkestone, England. His father, George Laver, was a leading solicitor and his mother Mary Ann—; m. 9 June 1859 Elizabeth Fox in Dover, England, had twin sons and a daughter.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

In 1871 Thomas Stent and Laver won the competition to design the new city hall and law courts for San Francisco.^[2] Eight years after Laver's death, the unfinished building was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake.^[3]

Laver was the architect of San Francisco's first brownstone, the neo classical James C. Flood Mansion^[4] and, not far away, in Oakland, the grand Victorian, Ellen Kenna House.^{[citation needed]}

He was involved with the Royal Institute of British Architects, was president of the Pacific Coast Association of Architects and a fellow of the American Institute of Architects.^[1] He died on 27 March 1898 in Alameda, California.^{[citation needed]}

• New York State Capitol, 1866 design
• Russell House (Ottawa) renovations
• St Patrick's Basilica (Ottawa), (1869)
• James C. Flood Mansion (1886), unfinished, now home to the Pacific-Union Club
• Ellen Kenna House (1888) in Oakland, California
• San Francisco City Hall (1899), destroyed by fire after 1906 earthquake