Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Clark & Beuttler records
- Dates:
- 1920-1968
- Creators:
- Clark & Beuttler and Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-1993
- Extent:
- 40.5 Linear Feet: (14 record storage boxes and 10 flat file drawers)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Clark & Beuttler Records (2015-6), Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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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
- Custodial history:
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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.
- Physical location:
- Regatta-- Unit/Shelves: DN 11.3-11.6; Drawers: FF 36.1-36.10
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Sponsor:
- The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-06-23 17:41:25 UTC .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Clark & Beuttler Records (2015-6), Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California
- Location of this collection:
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230 Bauer Wurster Hall #1820Berkeley, CA 94720-1820, US
- Contact:
- (510) 642-5124