13 Facts About Mark Daniels

Mark Roy Daniels was an architect, landscape architect, civil engineer, and city planner active in California.

Mark Daniels was known for creating plans that incorporated existing natural features in order to preserve a sense of local character.

Mark Daniels worked on master plans for the development of neighborhoods in San Francisco and the East Bay, on the Monterey Peninsula, in Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

Mark Daniels went on to do graduate work in city planning and architecture at Harvard University.

Mark Daniels eventually opened an office in San Francisco, and in 1908 East Bay real estate developer John Hopkins Spring became his first important landscape design client.

Mark Daniels planned the entire subdivision, deliberately working around existing natural features, especially major rock outcroppings.

Mark Daniels developed the master plans for the Forest Hill and Sea Cliff neighborhoods of San Francisco.

Elsewhere in California, Mark Daniels was involved with master planning on the Monterey Peninsula, especially Pebble Beach, Carmel Woods, and the 17-Mile Drive; the designer Chesley Bonestell worked as his assistant on these designs.

Mark Daniels moved to Los Angeles, where he designed the Villa Aurora and worked on the master plan for Bel Air.

In 1914, Mark Daniels took up the post of landscape engineer for Yosemite National Park, where the existing buildings were in poor condition and there were issues with sanitation and water supply.

Mark Daniels was tasked with developing a "comprehensive general plan for the development of the floor of the Yosemite Valley".

Mark Daniels spent the summers of 1914 and 1915 touring parks in the system to understand their problems but kept his private practice going during the winters.

Mark Daniels died on January 14,1952, at Franklin Hospital, now California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California, after a long illness.