John H. Christie (1878–1960) was an American architect who worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and was the railroad's Chief Architect from 1924 to 1947.
Christie was born Johann Heinrich Christiansen in 1878, emigrated from Germany, and was naturalized as an American citizen in 1899. He studied architecture in Pennsylvania and Europe, then returned to Oakland, California. He was hired by Southern Pacific as a junior draftsman in 1904 working for civil engineer John D. Isaacs, and was certified to practice architecture in California in 1913. Christie succeeded Daniel J. Patterson as Chief Architect in 1924, and became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1926. He retired from Southern Pacific in 1947 but continued to work in private practice.
Salem station (Oregon), 500 13th Street SE, Salem, Oregon, 1918, Beaux Arts style, NRHP-listed
Southern Pacific Depot, Mesa, Arizona, 1931, burned 1989
San Jose Diridon Station, 65 Cahill Street, San Jose, California, 1935, Italian Renaissance Revival style, NRHP-listed
Union Station (Los Angeles), 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California, 1939, Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival and Art Deco styles, by John and Donald Parkinson in collaboration with tennant railroad architects H. L. Gilman (Santa Fe), J. H. Christie (Southern Pacific), and J. R. Wirth (Union Pacific), and landscape architect Tommy Tomson, NRHP-listed
Palo Alto (Caltrain station), 95 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California, 1941, Streamline Moderne style, NRHP-listed
remodeling of Southern Pacific's 1915 Fresno depot
Grand Lake Lutheran Church complex, Oakland, California
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