Description
The Clark & Beuttler records span 40.5 linear feet and date from 1920 to 1968. The collection contains notes, clippings, small
sketches, and correspondence, all organized by project. The collection also consists of black-and-white photographs, negatives,
and Clarke's postcard collection which is organized by location and/or subject.
Background
The partnership of Hervey Parke Clark and John Frederick Beuttler began in 1946 with their establishment of their San Francisco
firm. Some of their major projects included the War memorial in the San Francisco Presidio, the Storke Student Publications
Building at Stanford University, the "Storke Tower" at UC Santa Barbara, the renovation and addition to the S.F. Citizen's
Federal Savings and Loan Association, and residences in Southern California.
Hervey Parke Clark (1899-1982) was born in Detroit Michigan and moved to Santa Barbara in 1910. He attended Yale and later
University of Pennsylvania Architectural School in 1926. After graduating the University of Pennsylvania, Hervey Clark found
work at the New York office of Raymond Hood, Godley and Fouilhoux. In 1936, Clark moved to San Francisco and ten years later
began a partnership with John Frederick Beuttler. In the mid-1950s through the 1970s, Clark taught design at Stanford's school
of architecture. He served as the architect of record for Harwell H. Harris' project at Greenwood Common in Berkeley.
San Francisco native John F. Beuttler (1891-1976) studied architecture as a special graduate student at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1914-1915. Before and after attending "Penn" Beuttler worked as a draftsman in a number of San Francisco architectural
offices including: Willis J. Polk (1909-1911, 1916-1918), Edward Garden (1915-16), and George Kelham (1918-1943). In 1946,
he and fellow Penn alumnus Hervey Clark formed a partnership that continued until 1966, when Beuttler retired. Beuttler joined
the national AIA in 1946, and was a member of the Northern California Chapter. He considered the Home Economics Building at
U.C. Davis one of his significant projects.
The Clark & Beuttler records (1920 to 1968) contain notes, clippings, small sketches, correspondence, architectural awards
and certificates, and photographs, as well as and Clark's student work and postcard collection organized by location and/or
subject. The drawings document primarily residential work by Clark & Beuttler between the 1950s and 1960s