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Title: Robert D. Farquhar Collection
Identifier/Call Number: Clarkive.Farquhar
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Physical Description:
6.0 Linear feet
(8 boxes)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1900-1940
Date (inclusive): 1900-1967
Abstract: Scrapbooks, ephemera, photographs, and correspondence related to architect Robert D. Farquhar and his work, particularly buildings
commissioned by William Andrews Clark, Jr.
Creator:
Farquhar, Robert D.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Clark Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Identification of item], Robert D. Farquhar Collection, Clarkive Farquhar, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University
of California, Los Angeles.
The collection was processed by Rebecca Ruud in 2012. The processor made all arrangement choices, as the provenance information
for this collection was unclear.
Robert D. Farquhar (1872-1967) was one of the foremost California architects of the early 20th century. He was born in Brooklyn,
NY to David Webber Farquhar (1844-1905) and Sarah Malvia Joslyn in 1872. He was educated at Phillips Exter Academy and Harvard
University before studying architecture at MIT and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1903, he married tennis championMarion
Jones. The couple had three children; David Farquhar, John Percival Farquhar and Colin Farquhar.
Farquhar established his practice in Los Angeles in 1905 and was the prinicpal architect on such well known buildings in California
as the Gorham House in Santa Monica, El Mirasol in Santa Barbara, the Barlow Medical Library, and the E.R. Kellam House in
Pasadena. In 1915, Farquhar won a bid to design the Festival Hall at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco.
From 1918 to 1919, Farquhar closed his architectural practice and joined the Red Cross in Italy.
When he returned to Los Angeles in late 1919, he reopened his practice and went on to design several buildings for William
Andrews Clark, Jr. including his library and memorial, in addition to the Canfield-Moreno Estate, Beverly Hills High School,
the California Club, the Thomasella H. Graham residence, and (as a chief architect on a design team) the Pentagon. He died
on December 6, 1967 in Berkeley, California where he had lived since retirement with his brother Francis P. Farquhar.
The Robert D. Farquhar Collection consists of photographic prints and negatives of the buildings Farquhar designed as well
as scrapbooks, correspondence, personal papers and ephemera. The collection is mainly focused on the Wililam Andrews Clark
Memorial Library, William Andrews Clark Jr's Mausoleum, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, but also includes
2 scrapbooks, most likely created by Farquhar, with photographs of the buildings he designed (in addition to a third scrapbook
of uncertain provenance).
List of Architectural Projects
Note: this list is not exhaustive.
- El Mirasol (1905), Santa Barbara
- Mrs. Christian Herter Residence (1905), Santa Barbara
- Adelbert and Eva Feynes Residence (1906), Pasadena
- Barlow Medical Library (1907), Los Angeles
- O.T. Higgins Residence (1908), Redlands
- Herman Blumenthal Residence (ca. 1908)(building improvement), Los Angeles
- Dr. Robert P. McReynolds Residence (ca. 1908), Los Angeles
- E.R. Kellam Residence (1908), Pasdadena
- Santa Monica Board of Education, Washington School (1908), Santa Monica
- Major General J.P.Story Residence (1909), Pasadena
- Dwight Lefferts Residence (1910), Redlands
- Gorham Residence (1910), Santa Monica
- Henry Weyse/Charles Morris Residence (1910), Santa Monica
- Thomasella H. Graham Residence (ca. 1910), Sierra Madre
- Johnson Bransford Residence (1911), Nashville
- R.D. Farquhar Residence (1911), Santa Monica
- Roy Jones Residence (1911) (attributed), Santa Monica
- Robert A. Rowan Residence (1911), Pasadena
- Ralph Burnham Residence (1912), Riverside
- Eugene H. Bragg Residence (1912), Pasadena
- Chateau Bradbury (1912), Duarte
- Dr. Haynes Residence (1912), Los Angeles
- Charles Eaton Residence (1913), San Marino
- Torrance Public Library, Central Libary (1913), Torrance
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition's Festival Hall (1915), San Francisco
- John S.Craven's Estate Pool (1916), Pasadena
- William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (1924-1926), Los Angeles
- Alice McManus Clark Memorial Library (1926), University of Nevada, Reno
- Clark Mausoleum (1924), Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles
- Thomas C. Marlowe Residence (1921), Pasadena
- Canfield-Moreno Estate (1923), Los Angeles
- Harry Cohn House (1927), Los Angeles
- Richard I. Rogers Residence (ca. 1927), Beverly Hills
- Beverly Hills High School (1928), Beverly Hills
- California Club (1929), Los Angeles
- Marion MacNeil Smith Residence, (1931), Azuza
- William H. Tippett Residence (1932), Del Mar
- Clark Memorial Hall (1932), University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia
- Owlwood-Roland Arnall Mansion (1936), Los Angeles
- Mr. and Mrs. James Whittlesey Residence (1937), La Jolla
- Harold McCormick Residence (1939), Beverly Hills
- William Garland Residence (1940), Pebble Beach
- The Pentagon (1941-1942), Arlington County, Virginia
- Browning Building (1948), Baylor University, Waco, Texas
- Mr.and Mrs. Billy Workman Residence, Los Angeles
- Mrs. H.L. MacNeil Residence, Los Angeles
- Hanson Moore Residence, Los Angeles
- J.T.Lindley Residence, Azuza
- Florence Brown Residence, Bel Air
- Ada McCormicks' Father's Residence, Idaho
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Quinn Residence, Holmby Hills
- Francis Farquhar Residence
- Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stroud Residence, Santa Monica
- Harvey Mudd Residence, Beverly Hills
- Mrs. Fudger Residence
- Studio for Alice Lewisohn Crowley at "Crossroads", Ossining, New York
- Mrs. Wesley C. Mitchell Residence, Stamford, Connecticut
- Walter P. Lewisohn Residence. The Mill, Hunter's Creek
- Jim Page-LA Library Branch
- Stevens Residence
Robert D. Farquhar Architectural Drawings- UCLA Special Collections Collection #1579
Letters from Farquhar to the decorative wrought iron manufacturer, Edward G. Trinkkeller (1872-1945)- California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo, Robert E. Kennedy Library, Special Collections Department, Manuscript Collection #097
Clark B. Waterhouse Photograph Collection, 1915-1916- Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History
Barlow Medical Library Construction Photographs 1906-1907- UCLA Biomedical Library Collection #409
The provenance of these materials is unclear. It seems as though these two series may have originated in 2 different accessions,
but that is uncertain. One box contains a note saying it was found by library staff in the Clark Library gatehouse in 1993;
three other boxes were likely a purchase in the early 2000s.
The collection is arranged in two series: Series 1. Projects for William Andrews Clark Jr. and Series 2. Other Projects and
Personal Papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clark, William Andrews, 1877-1934
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Architects--United States--20th century
Architecture, Domestic--California--20th century
Photographs--California--20th century
Scrapbooks--United States--20th century