A.C. Schweinfurth American (1864–1900) architect born Albert Cicero Schweinfurth.

The son of a German

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 engineer

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 who had immigrated

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 to the United States

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 a decade before his son Albert was born. His brothers Charles, Julius and Henry also practiced in the architectural profession.

Schweinfurth began working as an architect in the East

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, then moving from Boston to Denver

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 and finally to San Francisco

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. He was associated with the First Bay Tradition

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. He designed the Unitarian Church, a "landmark in the history of Bay Area architecture" (1898), on the University of California, Berkeley

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 campus, as well as the Moody House situated on Le Roy Avenue in Berkeley, California.

He died of typhoid fever

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in San Francisco in 1900.