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Title: Paul Sterling Hoag papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000141
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
23.0 Linear feet
(2 record storage boxes and 7 flat file drawers)
Date (inclusive): circa 1950-circa 1985
creator:
Davidson, Julius Ralph, 1889-1977
creator:
Hoag, Paul Sterling, 1913-2002
creator:
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
creator:
Stacy-Judd, Robert, 1884-1975
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Paul Hoag, 1991.
Paul Sterling Hoag papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Paul Sterling Hoag was born in Spokane, Washington in 1913. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in architecture in 1934.
Between 1945-1946, Hoag worked as a draftsman for Richard Neutra. From 1946 to 1948, he worked for architect Paul Robinson
Hunter.
In 1949 Hoag began his own independent architectural practice. The majority of Hoag’s work took the form of commissioned residences
in the Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, West Bel-Air, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood
areas of Los Angeles. He also designed houses and schools in Ojai. Several of his commissions were for additions to buildings
originally designed by Julius R. Davidson and R. M. Schindler.
During his career Hoag was a prolific writer on architecture, contributing on a regular basis to journals and newspapers.
Paul Sterling Hoag died in 2003, at the age of 89 in Bellevue, Washington.
The Paul Sterling Hoag papers span 23 linear feet and date from circa 1950 to circa 1985. About 200 architectural commissions
designed by Hoag are documented with drawings and some photography. The collection contains black-and-white and color interior
and exterior photographs of Hoag’s buildings mounted on boards with descriptions on the versos, clippings from the
Los Angeles Times Home magazine regarding Hoag’s work, a letter from Esther McCoy to Paul Hoag, and architectural drawings and reprographic copies
of residential buildings and some commercial and public buildings primarily in the Los Angeles area.
Hoag's notable works include his own house; buildings for the Happy Valley Schools (associated with the Krishnamurti Foundation),
the Krotona Institute, and a house for the ceramicist Beatrice Wood, all in Ojai; alterations and additions to the former
Thomas Mann house by Julius R. Davidson for Mr. Lappen; and alterations to the Schindler-designed Richard Lechner house for
Mr. Dyer.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by client, in one series.
Related Archival Materials note
Esther McCoy papers, 1920-1989, bulk 1920-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Richard and Dion Neutra Papers (Collection Number 1179). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library,
UCLA.
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Julius R. Davidson papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara
Robert Stacy-Judd papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hoag, Paul Sterling, 1913-2002
Architectural drawings
Photographic prints
Reprographic copies