Irving John Gill (1870 - 1936) was born in Tully (near Syracuse), New York, USA and is considered an early architectural modernist, having produced some of San Diego's best architecture.

Biography

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Irving Gill was the son of Joseph Gill a house carpenter and farmer. He had no formal education in architecture and never attended college. He apprenticed to architect Ellis G. Hall in Syracuse and then moved to Chicago, working with Joseph Silsbee and later and more importantly under Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan there. Frank Lloyd Wright was working in the Adler & Sullivan firm at this time as well. Gill moved to San Diego, California in 1893 and immediately started his own practice. Gill (known as Jack to his friends) became a pioneer in rational, early modernist design for residences and commercial buildings. This phase of his career began about 1907, following an 11 year partnership with William S. Hebbard that produced good work, important to San Diego County history but less known nationally. Gill's 1907 partnership with Frank Mead, which lasted less than a year and completed only 4 houses was a time of some of his best work. The important Bailey, Allen, Laughlin and M. Klauber residences were completed by this partnership.

In 1911, Irving Gill's nephew Louis Gill joined Irving's firm as a draftsman, later to be promoted to partner.

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