David Owen Dryden

Architect

1877 – 1946

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Who was David Owen Dryden?

David Owen Dryden was a renowned San Diego builder-architect best known for his craftsman-style bungalows in the suburbs north of San Diego's Balboa Park including the North Park, Mission Hills and University Heights neighborhoods. Most of Dryden's work was constructed between 1911 and 1919. The proposed Dryden Historic District in North Park contains a high concentration of his homes.

Dryden's homes typify the American Arts and Crafts Movement. An article about Dryden is available here on the San Diego Historical Society website, written by renown Dryden expert, Donald Covington.

Dryden died on June 4, 1946 in Crescent City, California.

As Dr. Covington wrote in an article about Dryden, "It is a tribute to the quality of his craft that most of David Dryden's houses from his early career in San Diego are extant. Many of them, having survived modernization and change, still grace the old suburban neighborhoods north of Balboa Park echoing the polite and serene lifestyle of a distant era."

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Born
Jul 1, 1877
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Died
Jun 4, 1946
Crescent City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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