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I. Personal Papers approximately 1950-2001

Arrangement

This series is arranged in four subseries:
  1. A. Biographical information, 1969, 2001
  2. B. Childhood artwork
  3. C. Student work, approximately 1960-1968
  4. D. Family papers, 1977, 2000
 

A. Biographical information 1969, 2001

Box 3

Resumes and portfolios, 1969, 2001

Folder Oversize 11A

Photomontage of Roger Hong with friends and family undated

 

B. Childhood artwork

Box 8

Paintings and drawings

Scope and Contents

Items include a birds-eye-view painting of Disneyland, signed "Roger Hong, Summer '55"
 

C. Student work approximately 1960-1968

Box 7

Fraternity scrapbooks, Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, Tau Gamma chapter, University of Southern California, 1960-1962

Scope and Contents

3 oversize scrapbooks (1960, 1961, 1962), of photos, clippings and portrait drawings by R. Hong.
Folder Oversize 14

Student election posters

Folder Oversize 15

Conceptual drawings of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house, 1960-1962

Box 2, Box 4, Box 5

Miscellaneous drawings, artwork, and assignments

 

D. Family papers 1977, 2000

Box 15

Floor plans and elevations for the "On Gold Mountain" exhibit at the Autry Museum featuring the Hong Family archives, 2000

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Box 15

Headstone design by R. Hong for his father, Y. C. Hong, 1977

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 5 sheets
 

II. Project Plans and Drawings 1936-2001

Scope and Contents

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 and Adrian Wilson from the 1930s and 1940s.

Arrangement

Projects are arranged alphabetically within three subseries:
  1. A. Los Angeles (Chinatown), 1930s-1940s
  2. B. Los Angeles (Chinatown), renovations, 1979-2001
  3. C. Other work (sampling of Hong's professional work), 1948-1991
 

A. Los Angeles (Chinatown) 1930s-1940s

Box 9

Boy Scouts of America, scout cabin approximately 1940

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 9, Folder 1-5

Buildings for You Chung Hong: 405, 407, 409 Ginling Way and 951-955 N. Broadway 1939-41

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 38 sheets.
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
 

East Elevation facing Broadway, Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong, Los Angeles Chinatown [archHong, Folder 1 (1)]

 

South Elevation facing Ginling Way, Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong, Los Angeles Chinatown [archHong, Folder 1 (2)]

 

Front on Ginling Way (South Elevation), Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong, Los Angeles Chinatown [archHong, Folder 2]

 

Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong [archHong, Folder 3]

 

Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong [archHong, Folder 4]

 

Buildings for Mr. You Chung Hong [archHong, Folder 5]

Box 9, Folder 6, Folder 7

Buildings for You Chung Hong: neon lighting studies approximately 1937

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Electrical Products Corp.; Zeon Electrical Products; 20th Century Lites, Inc. (lighting)
 

Neon study for You Chung Hong buildings, Chinatown, Los Angeles. [archHong, Folder 6]

 

Electrical Products, Design no. 755-B [archHong, Folder 7 (1)]

 

Electrical Products, Design no. 755-B [archHong, Folder 7 (2)]

 

Electrical Products Corp., Design no. 755-A [archHong, Folder 7 (3)]

Box 9

Buildings for You Chung Hong: Peter Soo Hoo store #3, 421 Ginling Way approximately 1930s

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 9

Buildings for You Chung Hong: Restaurant stores 1 and 2 1938

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 4 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 9

Buildings for You Chung Hong: Store and office building, Ginling Way 1938-40

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 18 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 10

Daniel Hall Building 1939

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 10

Gate (Pailou), North Broadway approximately 1930s

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 10

Lung-Kong Tin Yee, Club entrance design approximately 1930s

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Bailey, A. Godfrey (architect)
Box 10

Proposed additions to Chinatown (property map); House numbers for New Chinatown, 900 block N. Broadway 1939

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
 

House Numbers for New Chinatown, 900 block N. Broadway [archHong Box 10]

Box 10

Restaurant and cocktail room for Howard Tom and Jew Loy-Shue, 425-427 Ginling Way 1938

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 10

Restaurant and store building for Au Chun Hall 1939

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 10

Restaurant for You Chung Hong, 415 and 425 Ginling Way 1939-40, 1945

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 17 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Webster, E. & Wilson, A., (architects)
Box 10

Survey maps 1938-39, 1941

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 4 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box 10

Utility, grading and plot plans; street layout 1938, 1940

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 6 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
 

B. Los Angeles (Chinatown), renovations 1979-2001

Box 11

Blossom Garden Hotel and mixed-use project, 900 N. Broadway. (Includes rough concept sketches.) 2000

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 44 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Laeroc Partners, Inc.(architects), Hong, Roger (architect), Urban Concepts (architects)
Box 1, Folder 12

Cathay Bank undated

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 photos only
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Choy, E. & Choy, B., (architects), Shulman, J. (photographer)
Box 11

Chinatown Historic Core Vision Plan, L.A. Chinatown Business Council: Master program for revitalization and development 2001

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 1

Chinatown Passage (shops, restaurants, terraces, parking, connections to Blue Line, Metrobus, DASH, bikeway), proposal plan 2001

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect), Suisman Urban Design (architects), Laeroc Partners Inc. (architects)
Box 11

Chinese Cultural and Community Center of Greater Los Angeles, proposal plan undated

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 11

City North Destination Entertainment Complex and MTA Station, project proposal 1998-2001

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 4 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect), Urban Concepts (architect)
Box 11, Folder 9

Gateway Tower, sponsored by the Chinese Committee on Aging undated

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 7 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 11

Hong Building, 425 Ginling Way, 1997 renovation plans 1997

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 7 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 11

Hong Building, 425 Ginling Way, 1999 renovation, demolition and construction plans 1999

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 14 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): McDonough & Associates (architects), Perlof, S. (engineer)
Box 11

Hong Building, 451A and 451B Ginling Way, alterations 2002

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 1

Hong Building: Bar and Bistro at Central Plaza, 951 N. Broadway, 425 Ginling Way, proposal plan 2000

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 11

Imperial Dragon Gift Shop, 451 Ginling Way, remodel 1979-80

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 15 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect), S. Perlof (engineer)
Box 11, Folder 8, Folder 10

Ling Tower: Senior Citizen Residence and Community Commercial Plaza 1978

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 7 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 11

Pergola and stage, design plans undated

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box 11

Residential renovation of 445 Ginling Way for Roger S. Hong undated

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 12

Survey maps 1990

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 4 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): City of Los Angeles
Box 12

United Bank building, 951 N. Broadway (formerly 405, 407, 409 Ginling Way), renovation plans 1984

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 26 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects), Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 12

United Bank building, 951 N. Broadway, fence design and landscape plan 1996

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 2 sheets
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect, landscape architect)
 

C. Other work (sampling of Hong's professional work) 1948-1991

Box 12

Chinese Times, The: 686 Sacramento St., remodel. (Includes many rough sketches.) 1976-77

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 30 sheets
Location: San Francisco (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 12

Encinitas Hotel 1989

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: Encinitas (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects)
Box 12

Fitzgerald, Dan and June, residence, 10118 Empyrean Way #102, interior design 1991

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 6 sheets
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (interior design)
Box 12

Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital 1977

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 11 sheets
Location: Wauwatosa (Wis.)
Collaborator(s): Stone, Marracini & Patterson (architects), Brust-Zimmerman (architects)
Box 1

Hong, Mr. and Mrs. Y. C., residence, 5146 Los Franciscos Way, proposed recreation unit approximately 1970s

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 13, Box 1

Hong, Mr. and Mrs. Y. C., residence, 5146 Los Franciscos Way. (Includes many rough sketches.) 1967-69

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 70 sheets; 35 photos
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Buff & Hensman (architect), Hong, Roger (architect), Shulman, J. (photographer)
Box 13

Hong, Roger S., residence, 10551 Wilshire Blvd. #1703, interior design. (Includes many rough sketches.) 1986-87

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 29 sheets
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (interior design)
Folder 13

Hotel at the L.A. Zoo 1981

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects), Stolte, Inc. (developers)
Box 13, Folder 11

Hotel Nikko, 477 S. La Cienega Blvd. 1989-91

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 86 sheets, 5 photos
Location: Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects), Fong & Associates (landscape architects), Mingis Design (interior design)
Box 17

Hotel Nikko brochure and award submission 1991-1997

Box 18

Hotel Nikko photographs 1992, 1997

Scope and Contents

Color photographic prints and color transparencies (slides).

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Housed in cold storage for preservation purposes; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
Box 1

KCET building approximately 1980

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 7 sheets
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects)
Box 14

Kun Lun Hotel, early concepts 1980

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 15 sheets
Location: Beijing (China)
Collaborator(s): John Carl Warnecke and Associates (architects)
Box 14

Neiman-Marcus 1988

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 20 sheets
Location: Honolulu (Hawaii)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architect), The Darrall Partnership (interior design)
Box 14

Neiman-Marcus 1979

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: unknown
Box 14

Office building, Ohio Ave. and Sepulveda Blvd. [now Fox Building, 1441 S. Sepulveda Blvd.] 1983

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 6 sheets
Location: Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects)
Box 14

Pan Pacific Center [adaptive re-use of Pan Pacific building] 1981-82

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 21 sheets
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architect), CCM Financial (developers)
Box 14

Park Place master plan (Fluor Properties conversion) 1985-88

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 26 sheets
Location: Irvine (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects), Trammell Crow Co. (developers)
Box 15

Paseo de los Rosas complex approximately 1980s

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 17 sheets
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Arechaederra, Hong, Treiman (architects), Trammell Crow Co. (developers), Ahmanson Commercial Development Co. (developers)
Box 15

Quong, Chin H. and Mabel C. Hong, Four-unit apartment building 1948-49

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Alhambra (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Joseph, B. G. (contractor)
Box 15

Ralph's grocery stores approximately 1973

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Fullerton (Calif.) and unknown
Collaborator(s): Maxwell Starkman & Associates (architects)
Box 15

Rossmoor Towers and Life Care Center, Rossmoor Leisure World 1969-70

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 28 sheets
Location: Laguna Hills (Calif.)
Collaborator(s): Bodrell Joer'dan Smith and Associates, Inc. (architects), Lent-Forsum Associates (landscape architects)
Box 15

Unidentified campus site plan approximately 1970s

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 sheet
Location: unknown
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 15

Unidentified residences and commercial buildings 1970-72

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 9 sheets
Location: unknown
Collaborator(s): Hong, Roger (architect)
Box 15

UNLV Sports Arena (Thomas & Mack Center), University of Nevada, Las Vegas approximately 1984

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 3 sheets
Location: Las Vegas (Nev.)
Collaborator(s): John Carl Warnecke and Associates (architects), W2C (architects)
Box 18

UNLV Sports Arena (Thomas & Mack Center) photographs 1997

Scope and Contents

Color photographic prints and color transparencies (slides).

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Housed in cold storage for preservation purposes; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
Box 17

Miscellaneous architectural project notes and brochures approximately 1980s-1990s

 

D. Resource Materials (textile sample) 1972

Box 16

Roads [textile sample; designed by Gretl and Leo Wollner for Knoll International. 1972

Physical Description: 49 x 138 in

Scope and Contents

Number of items: 1 textile