Blaine Drake was born September 10, 1911, in Ogden, Utah.  He is quoted as saying, “I first became aware of the word ARCHITECT when I was six years old. When, as my mother told me later, I had just recovered from a bad saw cut on my thumb, I asked her who it was that both designed and built buildings. Architect had a good sound then and it does still”

Drake went on to study architecture at the University of California, Berkeley (1929-32) and then joined the apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship (1933-41).  In 1945 Drake began his architectural practice in Phoenix, Arizona. The Holcomb House was designed and built for Rear Admiral Holcomb and his family (1956).

Blaine Drake’s career spanned the decades until his last work in 1985. Most of Drake’s career was carried on almost entirely in and around Phoenix, Arizona. He kept alive a tradition of building with its roots in the American past even while its face was towards the future.