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Roger S. Hong Collection
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Series Description

 

I. PERSONAL PAPERS, 1950-2001

Physical Description: 8 boxes, 2 broadside folders
 

A. Biographical information

Scope and Content Note

Resumes and portfolios: 1969, 2001.
 

B. Childhood artwork

Scope and Content Note

Paintings and drawings; includes birds-eye-view painting of Disneyland, signed “Roger Hong, Summer ‘55.”
 

C. Student work, c. 1960-68

Scope and Content Note

* Drawings, artwork and class assignments.
* Scrapbooks, 1960-62, of University of Southern California's Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity (Tau Gamma chapter), featuring photos, clippings and portrait drawings by R. Hong.
* Hong's drawings of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house.
* Student election posters.
 

D. Family papers

Scope and Content Note

* Floor plans and elevations for “On Gold Mountain” exhibit at Autry Museum, 2000, featuring Hong Family archives.
* Headstone design by R. Hong for his father, Y. C. Hong, 1977.
 

II. PROJECT PLANS AND DRAWINGS, 1936-2001

Physical Description: 8 boxes, 13 broadside folders

Scope and Content Note

This series contains architectural drawings by Roger S. Hong, from the start of his professional career in 1968, through his consulting years in the late 1990s-2001. Hong worked at several firms: Buff & Hensman; Bodrell Joer'dan Smith; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Stone, Marracini & Patterson; John Carl Warnecke & Associates; and was a co-founder of the firm Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman in 1981. Hong also did work under his own name, and as a consultant to other firms.
In addition to Hong's work, there are drawings by architects Erle Webster & Adrian Wilson from the 1930s and 1940s.
Projects are arranged alphabetically within three series: Chinatown (Los Angeles), 1930s-1940s; Chinatown (Los Angeles) renovations, 1979-2001; and Other work (sampling of R. Hong’s professional work).
See the Project Index for a complete list of projects.