Born in San Diego, Donald earned a BA in architecture from Cal, in 1940. He served in the US Naval Reserve (1943-46) before launching Neptune & Gregory (1951-53) and with Joseph Fleischman Thomas he launched the firm of Neptune & Thomas Associates in Pasadena (in 1954). The firm designed York Hall (1966) on the University of California, San Diego campus.
Donald Neptune was born in San Diego on April 13, 1916. Following his BA in architecture from Cal, in 1940, Mr. Neptune served in the US Naval Reserve (1943-46). Years later he would launch Neptune & Gregory (1951-53) and then Neptune & Thomas Associates in 1954. Having joined the Pasadena Chapter of the AIA in 1949, he was inducted into the FAIA in 1968.
Neptune & Thomas Associates was formed by Donald Eugene Neptune and Joseph Fleischman Thomas. Associates C. Allan Spencer, Frank Kirk Helm, Anthony O'Keefe, Cecil Frank Klassen, James Follette Currie, Grover L. Starr, and Joseph Arthur Leick worked from the firm’s office at 1560 W. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.
The firm won an AIA honor award for Methodist Hospital of Southern California as well as Design Merit awards for Azusa High School, Neptune & Thomas Office Building, and York Hall at UC San Diego.
Azuza High School
Blair High School (1966)
Citrus College (1969)
Azusa-Glendora
Fountain Valley High School (1967)
High Energy Physics Lab (1969)
California Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Medicine (1961)
University of California, Los Angeles
Methodist Hospital of Southern California (1957)
Arcadia, CA
Neptune & Thomas Office Building (1957)
1560 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
U.S. Marine Corps Training Center (1954)
Twentynine Palms, CA
West Covina Civic Center (1969)
York Hall (1966)
UC San Diego
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