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Joseph Trench

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Theatre (1851), which later became San Francisco's City Hall, and the Metropolitan Theatre (1853). Trench also had other occupations, managing the Metropolitan Theatre and San Francisco Hall, and, later, became a prospector and miner. In 1856 he ran a mining operation in Mexico, and he formed the
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Trench was born in 1815, but little is known about his early history or training. By 1837 he was practicing in New York, and brought
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Trench moved to San Francisco in 1850 or 1851, and practiced as an architect there, designing among other buildings the
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painter, into his office as an apprentice and draftsman. Several years later, in 1842, Trench took
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Metropolitan Hotel and Niblo's Garden Theatre, Broadway at Prince (1849-1852),
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Trench, who never married, retired in the early 1870s, and died in
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to the "East 10th Street Historic District Designation Report",
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Buildings designed by Trench's firm in New York City include:
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Colonel Herman Thorne mansion, 22 West 16th Street (1846–48),
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firm Sparrow, Trench & Company to run mines in the
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Trench also designed row houses which are part of the
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Index


A. T. Stewart Store
Broadway
Italianate style

Odd Fellows Hall

architect
New York City
San Francisco
Jasper Francis Cropsey
Hudson River School
John B. Snook
Trench & Snook
Jenny Lind
Nevada Territory
East Oakland, California
A. T. Stewart Department Store
Italianate style
NYC landmark
Union Square
Odd Fellows Hall (New York City)
NYC landmark
Canal Street
East 10th Street Historic District
John B. Snook



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