Finding Aid for the Albert Raymond Walker Papers LSC.0199

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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Albert Raymond Walker papers
Creator: Walker, Albert Raymond, 1881-1958
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0199
Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): 1920-1940
Abstract: Albert R. Walker (1881-1958) was a architect who collaborated with Percy A. Eisen to design the Ardmore Apartments in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Plaza Hotel, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, the Edwards and Wildey Building and the Fine Arts Building (Signal Oil Building) in Los Angeles, the Bay Cities Guaranty Building in Santa Monica, and the Texaco Building in Los Angeles. The collection consists of photographs, newspaper articles and scrapbooks of buildings designed by Walker.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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[Identification of item], Albert Raymond Walker Papers (Collection 199). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942339483606533 

Biography

Walker was born in 1881 in Sonoma, California; in 1902 he went East to attend Brown University, returning to join the architectural firm of Hebbard and Gill in San Diego; after a year he moved to Los Angeles, continuing his apprenticeship with Parkinson and Bergstrum and later with A.F. Rosenheim, Hunt and Grey; in 1909 established his own practice, and in 1910 formed a partnership with John Terrell Vawter; shortly after World War I, Walker formed a partnership with Percy A. Eisen that lasted until 1941; together they designed the Ardmore Apartments in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Plaza Hotel, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, the El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, the Edwards and Wildey Building and the Fine Arts Building (Signal Oil Building) in Los Angeles, the Bay Cities Guaranty Building in Santa Monica, and the Texaco Building in Los Angeles; Walker died on September 17, 1958.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of photographs, newspaper articles and scrapbooks of the buildings, primarily in Southern California, designed by Albert R. Walker.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Architecture -- California, Southern -- Archives.
Architects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives
Walker, Albert Raymond, 1881-1958--Archives.

 

Papers 1920-1940

General Physical Description note: (2 boxes)

Scope and Contents note

Papers, photographs, and ephemera.
Contains photographs, newspaper articles and scrapbooks of the buildings designed by Albert R. Walker, a Los Angeles architect. The buildings are primarily in Southern California.