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Custodial History note
Preferred Citation note
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Content note
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Clark & Beuttler records
Creator:
Clark & Beuttler
Creator:
Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-1993
Identifier/Call Number: 2015.-6
Physical Description:
40.5 Linear Feet:
(14 record storage boxes and 10 flat file drawers)
Date (inclusive): 1920-1968
Physical Location: Regatta-- Unit/Shelves: DN 11.3-11.6; Drawers: FF 36.1-36.10
Language of Material:
English
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Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History note
Gift of Hervey Clark & Beuttler, 1978. Additional materials gifted by Isabel Clark, 1982 and 1983. Collection transferred
from UC Santa Barbara Architecture and Design Collection to the UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives in 2015.
Preferred Citation note
[Identification of item], Clark & Beuttler Records (2015-6), Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design.
University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California
Biographical/Historical note
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
Scope and Content note
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.
Flat files contain architectural drawings and reprographic copies of work, primarily residential, done by Clark & Beuttler
between the mid to late 1950s and into the 1960s, architectural awards and certificates, and Clark's student work, the majority
of which are watercolor paintings of buildings and date from the early 1920s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Architectural drawings
Architecture -- California -- 20th century
Negatives
Photographic prints
Reprographic copies
Beuttler, John Frederick, 1891-1976
Clark & Beuttler
Clark, Hervey Parke, 1899-1982