Martin Eli Weil Papers: Finding
Aid
Finding aid prepared by Sue Tyson.
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Overview of the Collection
Title: Martin Eli Weil papers
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1964-2009
Bulk dates: 1979-2008
Collection Number: archWeil
Creator:
Weil, Martin Eli
Extent:
137 boxes and 6 oversize folders (134 linear feet)
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains the professional papers of architect Martin Eli Weil (1940-2009), relating to Weil's work as a restoration
architect and consultant in Los Angeles and Southern California. The materials date from 1964 until 2009, the year of Weil's
death, with the bulk of the material relating to 428 projects on which Weil worked as a restoration architect and consultant
from the time he arrived in Southern California in 1979 until 2008. Files document 428 individual projects, including Frank
Lloyd Wright structures such as Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; the restoration of the El Capitan Theater; and jobs undertaken
as a consultant for the cities of San Gabriel, La Verne, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. The collection also includes
papers reflecting Weil's service as Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department
of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; his work as an instructor in historic preservation at the University
of Southern California from 1981-2009; his writing, chiefly as an architecture columnist for the
Larchmont Chronicle; his involvement with the Harvard Heights community in Los Angeles, where he lived; and his Master's thesis project.
Language: English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Martin Eli Weil Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Provenance
Gift of the Estate of Martin E. Weil, February 2010.
Processing Information
The Martin Eli Weil Papers are arranged according to the original order of Weil's files. Series were designated by archivists
at the Huntington Library. In 2014, archivist Anita Weaver began processing the collection and drafted the Project Index.
From 2016-2017, project archivist Sue Tyson completed arrangement and processing of the collection, the Project Index, and
wrote the finding aid. In 2019, Gina Giang completed physical control over the collection and published the finding aid. Because
they form the bulk of the collection, the project records were rehoused and their boxes numbered first; other boxes were numbered
as their series were processed.
Most of the collection was originally housed in manila folders in file drawers in Weil's home offices. In order to protect
materials in the project records, where practicable, drawings and photographs were separated from manuscript materials and
placed in folders directly following. Where Weil's original folder titles illuminated the contents of the folders, they were
retained, usually edited for consistency and clarity. In cases where Weil's folder titles did not adequately describe a folder's
contents, the archivist has provided a descriptive title and noted Weil's original title in brackets on the folder.
Project-related materials that Weil stored separately from the project records, including objects, chiefly materials fragments
and paint samples; photographs; and rolled drawings, were rehoused by conservators and the archivist. The project-related
materials are arranged alphabetically by project; and described, along with the project records, in Series IV, Projects.
Biographical Note
Restoration architect Martin Eli Weil (1940-2009) was born July 2, 1940 in Glasgow, Montana, to Esther and Herbert Weil, a
civil engineer, and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. Weil earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Iowa
in 1962 and two Master's degrees, one in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965; and one in Early American
Culture and the Decorative Arts in 1967, as a Fellow in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University
of Delaware.
Upon completing his degrees, Weil worked first as an architect with John Carl Warnecke, Architect, in New York City (1967-1968)
and then as a restoration consultant and restoration architect for John Dickey, Architect, in Media, Pennsylvania (1967-1971).
In 1971, Weil was recruited to join the staff of Parks Canada's Division of Restoration Services in the Canadian Department
of Indian and Northern Affairs in Ottawa, serving initially as the Division's Head Restoration Architect in the General Period
Section (1971-1975) and then as Head of Period Architecture and Acting Head of Administration (1975-1976) and Division Chief
(1976-1978), ultimately overseeing restoration of ten historic sites. In addition, Weil served as president of Heritage Ottawa
and, in 1974, founded the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, which he served as president until 1976.
In 1978, Weil moved to Southern California, where he soon became a prime mover in founding the Los Angeles Conservancy, in
part in order help thwart the demolition of the Los Angeles Public Library. In 1979, Weil established his business, "Martin
Eli Weil, Restoration Architect," which he ran from his home with a small staff, taking on projects both as principal architect
and as a consultant. He developed expertise in areas including the restoration of historic buildings and sites; rehabilitation
of period structures and their adaptation for re-use; microscopic paint analysis and color restoration; specific plans and
their implementation; preservation design guidelines; environmental impact and historic structures reports; tax act certification
and national register nominations; and interior design. In 1985, Weil bought the last extant house designed by the architecture
firm Greene & Greene in Los Angeles, the Lucy Wheeler House (1905), and made its restoration a continuing project, even as
he worked and lived there.
During a career that lasted until his death in 2009, Weil worked on hundreds of projects, including many significant restorations
and rehabilitations; major projects included the Storer House, Hollyhock House, and other buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright;
the El Capitan Theater; Bullock's Department Store in Pasadena; Ebell Theatre; Griffith Park Observatory; the Santa Monica
Mountains Conservancy's Mentryville project; Villa Riviera; and the Huntington Mausoleum. He worked for private parties as
well as municipal, state, and federal governments, and served as City Restoration Architect and consultant for cities including
San Gabriel, La Verne, Pasadena, and Monrovia.
Other professional engagements included work as a teacher; one of the original lecturers at the University of Southern California's
Summer Program in Historic Preservation and also a faculty member in USC's Historic Preservation graduate program, Weil taught
courses at the school from 1981-2009 in subjects including historic preservation, surveying historic sites, historic interiors,
historic finishes, the built environment of Los Angeles, and period interiors and furnishings. He also wrote a column, "Weil
on Architecture," for the
Larchmont Chronicle from 1995-1999. Along with his work for the Los Angeles Conservancy, Weil was also involved in his neighborhood of Harvard
Heights, in the West Adams section of Los Angeles. He was a charter member of the West Adams Heritage Association and a member
of the Harvard Heights Association, and his efforts were key to creating the Harvard Heights Historic Protection Overlay Zone.
For his work in the field of restoration architecture and for his service to the community, he had two awards named in his
honor, the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada's Martin Eli Weil Prize (established 1989) and the West Adams Heritage
Association's Martin Eli Weil Historic Preservation Award (established 2006); in both cases, he was first recipient of these
awards. Weil also earned awards from the Los Angeles Conservancy (multiple honors); the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
for his work on the El Capitan Theater (1992); the California Governor's Preservation Award, for his work on Hanna House (1999);
and, shortly before his death, the California Preservation Foundation Preservation Design Award, for color consulting and
exterior renovation of the Villa Riviera in Long Beach (2009). Weil died in February, 2009.
Scope and Content
The collection contains correspondence; project and business records; reports; contracts; notes and research files; appointment
books; drawings, including approximately 2920 rolled drawings; approximately 5000 photographs, chiefly snapshots depicting
work in progress; material samples, including approximately 2000 fragments of wood or other surfaces containing paint samples;
and 46 media files documenting the career of Martin Eli Weil. The materials date from 1964 until 2009, the year of Weil's
death, with the bulk of the material relating to 428 projects on which Weil worked as a restoration architect and consultant
from the time he arrived in Southern California in 1979 until 2008; some of these projects were undertaken as part of larger
projects, such as jobs Weil performed while under contract to various municipalities. Of the 428 projects, 406 were included
in Weil's project records, found in his filing cabinets; 22 projects are represented in the collection only by either photographs,
drawings, or materials samples (objects), without any other project documentation. Rolled drawings comprise both original
drawings by Weil and reprographic copies of drawings by original and prior restoration architects that Weil used in his work.
The collection documents the wide range of work Weil performed, comprising historic structures reports, microscopic paint
analysis, tax act and historic landmark certification, environmental impact and seismic structures analysis, and other restoration
and rehabilitation work on structures. Major projects represented include Hollyhock House and other Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
in Barnsdall Park as well as Storer House; the El Capitan Theater and Bullock's Department Store in Pasadena; residences including
David O. Selznick's home (Joelson Residence); and work Weil undertook as a consultant for the cities of La Verne, San Gabriel,
Porterville, and Monrovia, California.
Also included are papers reflecting Weil's work as the Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division
of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; research and teaching materials from his work as
a faculty member at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; documentation of Weil's writings, chiefly as a columnist
for the
Larchmont Chronicle; correspondence, writings, and research files relating to Weil's community involvement, chiefly his work to support creation
of a Historic Protection Overlay Zone in Harvard Heights; and 68 drawings from his Master's thesis project.
The materials in the collection are grouped into series designated by the archivist as suggested in the
Standard Series for Architecture and Design Records: A Tool for the Arrangement and Description of Archival Collections, developed by Kelcy Shepherd and Waverly Lowell (2010).
Project Index
The project records, which form the bulk of the collection, are described primarily in the Project Index rather than in this
finding aid. The Project Index, a downloadable PDF that provides details on each of the collection's 428 projects, includes,
where available, client and project name; project date; address; neighborhood and historic district; historic name, original
architect, and National Register of Historic Landmark designation information; the scope of Weil's work; titles of reports
written or co-written by Weil; awards; collaborators on projects; and other details about projects, including information
about dimensions of rolled drawings.
The Project Index also provides details about locations of reports, photographs, drawings, and other materials in the collection,
information to be used in combination with the location information provided in the finding aid for determining which materials
to request for viewing. Columns labeled Files, Photos, Drawings, AV/E-Media, and Objects provide box and folder numbers for
these materials. Please note that, in the Project Index, Files refers chiefly to manuscript materials; Photos and Drawings
include references both to items separated out from manuscript materials in the main project records and to items Weil arranged
separately, including rolled drawings and some photographs of work in progress. The Objects column references primarily fragments
including paint samples and, to a lesser extent, building materials.
The Project Index is divided into two major sections: The main body of projects documented in Weil's project records (406
projects, represented in Rows 2-415) and 22 projects, listed under "Other Projects," for which only photographs, drawings,
or objects (materials samples) were found, without other project documentation (Rows 417-439). Rows 440-442 describe unidentified
materials; these have not been counted as projects because it is possible that they belong to projects already listed.
In addition to the Project Index, a separate spreadsheet provides details about the rolled drawings accompanying the multiple
projects Weil worked on at Barnsdall Park, including Hollyhock House.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in the following four series:
- Series I. Personal Papers
- Subseries A. Student Work
- Series II. Professional Papers
- Subseries A. Writings and Related Research
- Subseries B. Faculty Papers
- Subseries C. Associations and Committees
- Subseries D. Awards
- Subseries E. Scrapbook and Curricula Vitae
- Subseries F. Posters and Drawings
- Subseries G. Other
- Series III. Office Records
- Series IV. Project Records
- Subseries A. Files
- Subseries B. Photographs
- Subseries C. Objects
- Subseries D. Media
- Subseries E. Drawings
Series and subseries were designated by the archivist as suggested in the
Standard Series for Architecture and Landscape Design Records: A Tool for the Arrangement and Description of Archival Collections.
Indexing Terms
Subjects
Weil, Martin Eli -- Archives.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Bullock's (Department store)
El Capitan Theatre (Organization : Hollywood, Calif.)
Greene & Greene.
Hollyhock House (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Architectural drawing -- Archives.
Architects -- California -- Archives.
Architects and community.
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- Designs and plans.
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration.
Architecture -- Designs and plans.
Color -- Conservation and restoration.
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- California -- Los Angeles.
Historic preservation -- California -- Los Angeles.
Paint -- Conservation and restoration.
Paint materials -- Analysis.
Barnsdall Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
La Verne (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Monrovia (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Pasadena (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Porterville (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
San Gabriel (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Forms/Genres
Agreements.
Architectural drawings (visual works).
Architectural photographs.
Correspondence (letters).
Business records.
Drawings (visual works).
Photographs.
Reports.
Alternate Authors
Kelley, H. Roy (Harold Roy), 1892- , architect.
Kelly, Arthur Rolland, 1878-1959, architect.
Kwan, Raymond, photographer.
Weil, Martin Eli, architect.
Weil, Martin Eli, author.
Weil, Martin Eli, illustrator.
Williams, Paul R., 1894-1980, architect.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959, architect.
Series I. Personal Papers.
Approximately 1964-1965
Physical Description: 68 drawings in 8 rolls in 1 box, dimensions approximately 95 x 144 cm and smaller
Box 115, Rolls 162-169
Martin Eli Weil Thesis drawings.
Approximately 1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
Contains 68 drawings originally housed in two rolls labeled "MEW Thesis"; the institution for which Weil drew them is unidentified.
The drawings depict various buildings, including a Philadelphia country house; a mental health center; Beaver College; and
Christy House in Iowa City, Iowa.
Series II. Professional Papers.
Approximately 1973-2009
Physical Description: 13 boxes and 3 oversize folders containing papers, drawings, slides, filmstrips, and objects
Writings and Related Research
Box 124
Restoration Services Division and other Canadian reports.
1973-1976
Scope and Content Note
Six reports published by agencies in Ottawa, Canada, including the Restoration Services Division, Department of Indian and
Northern Affairs; Heritage Ottawa; and the Architectural Inventory Group. Two of the Restoration Services Division reports,
"Fish Cache, Fort St. James National Historic Park, Architectural Feasibility Study" (1973) (Folder 1) and "1708 Powder Magazine.
Fort Anne National Historic Park, Annapolis Royal, N.S., Restoration Feasibility Study" (1974) (Folder 3), list Weil as co-author.
Also includes an offprint of an article, "A Canadian Perspective on Legislation and the Role of the Private sector in Archaeology,"
originally published in Historical Archaeology, Volume 12, 1978.
Box 125
Articles and research materials.
1973-1976
Scope and Content Note
Comprises chiefly newspaper articles Weil wrote as a regular columnist for the
Larchmont Chronicle (Folders 4-51). Also contains lists of newspaper and magazine articles he published and notes regarding possible topics for
columns (Folders 1-3); articles for other publications including the Los Angeles Independent (Folders 52-53) and the West
Adams Heritage Association Newsletter (Folders 54-56B); proceedings from the symposium, "America's Heritage: Historic Structures
and their Internal Environments" (Pomona, California, 1990), with Weil's contribution, "Investigation and Documentation of
the Historic Interior" (Folder 57); a typescript for an article about Sumner Hunt (Folder 66) and notes and research files
on various topics (Folders 61-72). Notably, Folder 65 contains a typescript, correspondence, and notes concerning Weil's thoughts
on Hollywood, including a typescript, "Consideration of Hollywood, California, as a Historic Area" (1977). Additionally, reprographic
copies of architectural drawings by Paul Williams located in Box 114, Rolls 159-160 may be related to the report by Williams
included in Box 125, Folder 72, regarding specifications for the residence and garage of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hallett.
Box 114, Rolls 159-160
Paul Williams drawings, W. D. Hallett residence (undated copies)
Scope and Content Note
Rolls contain reprographic copies of 6 original drawings by Paul Williams of the W. D. Hallett residence, Hollywood, California,
approximately 1930, and 4 drawings by Weil. See also research material on Paul Williams in Box 125, Folder 72.
Box 126
Research files.
Approximately 1981-1986
Scope and Content Note
Files comprise chiefly articles and handwritten notes concerning important buildings in Southern California architectural
history, including the Banning House, Dunbar Hotel, and the Lummis House; the materials also include files relating to buildings
represented in Series IV, including Ennis-Brown House and Gamble House. Many of the files include correspondence from Weil
to people involved with the properties.
Slides and filmstrips.
Approximately 1981-1986
Box 64
Slides
Scope and Content Note
Contains a slide carousel with approximately 65 slides showing various buildings and aspects of architectural practice. The
carousel has been left as found, including with Post-it notes in place.
Box 65
Slides and filmstrips.
Scope and Content Note
Contains four smaller boxes (Boxes 65A-65D) and an archival sleeve. Box 65A contains five unidentified 35mm filmstrips depicting
various architectural features. Boxes 65B-65D contain approximately 250 slides depicting various buildings and architectural
features, some of which were projects of Weil's, including projects documented in Series IV; many of these slides were removed
from unlabeled plastic storage boxes and are assumed to have been used in Weil's teaching and research. In Boxes 65B and 65C,
Post-it notes indicating features of interest and groups of slides, such as "Construction," "Glass," or "Toberman House,"
were replaced with tabs recording the original text. Box 65D contains approximately 40 slides, chiefly concerning buildings
in Los Angeles and Southern California. The box also includes a sleeve containing a slide of a 1957 advertisement, found loose
among Weil's rolled drawings.
Associations and Committees
Box 127
Harvard Heights Neighborhood
Scope and Content Note
Contains files reflecting Weil's work to support the creation of a Historic Protection Overlay Zone (HPOZ) for Harvard Heights,
including historic documentation and notes on individual streets. Also includes maps, notes from a tour of homes given by
Weil in 1988 (Folder 33), and some correspondence, including letters of thanks to Weil from the Getty Conservation Institute
(Folder 37) and the Santa Monica Heritage Square Museum Society (Folder 38).
Box 128
Awards.
1997; approximately 2009
Scope and Content Note
Contains a 1997 City of Los Angeles Historic Preservation Award of Excellence for Weil's work on the El Capitan Theater and
Office Building and a plaque by the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada celebrating "Forty Years of Gratitude
to Our Founder, Martin Eli Weil." The provenance of the plaque is unknown; presumably, it was presented to Weil in or before
2009.
Box 129
Scrapbook and curricula vitae.
Approximately 1996-2008
Scope and Content Note
Scrapbook contains clippings of Weil's life and work from the mid-1980s until the end of the 1990s, plus a bibliography of
his writings from 1977-1996. The box also contains a folder with several versions of Weil's curriculum vitae dating approximately
2006-2008, and a copy of his business card, printed from digital files.
Posters and Drawings.
Approximately 1985-1995
Posters.
Approximately 1985-1995
Scope and Content Note
Folders contain one collage and seven posters on poster board created by Weil; it is possible that the posters were used in
teaching. Also includes one poster showing Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings for millwork for Barnsdall Park.
Folder OV 1
Collage and Barnsdall Park Millwork Schedule
Scope and Content Note
The collage features newspaper articles, event programs, photographs, and handwritten text concerning Weil's work with the
Los Angeles Conservancy; most of the materials on the collage are dated 1985. The millwork schedule is a photographic reproduction
of a poster showing Frank Lloyd Wright's drawings for millwork for Barnsdall Park, Residence A, 1924.
Folder OV 2
Posters
Scope and Content Note
Contains four posters depicting work with paint, stains, and color on projects including Mariposa (Frost Residence); Lucy
Wheeler House; Hollyhock House; and two residences in the West Adams neighborhood. These posters were found together with
the materials in Folder OV 3.
Folder OV 3
Posters and stain samples
Scope and Content Note
Contains one poster depicting dark stain on white painted trim and two posters depicting interior and exterior finishes from
1915-1935. Also contains a sleeve with samples labeled "typical Craftsman colors." These materials were found together with
the posters in Folder OV 2.
Box 114, Roll 161
Drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright for exhibition.
1988
Scope and Content Note
Six reprographic copies of original drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright from roll originally labeled "'60 Years of Living Architecture'
- Exhibition Pavilion for L.A., Frank Lloyd Wright."
Architectural publications.
1974-2002
Scope and Content Note
Contains chiefly periodicals with articles concerning either projects on which Weil worked or architectural issues in which
he was interested; also contains a few weekly magazines from newspapers. In most cases, the collection contains only one or
two issues of each publication.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged by decade and, within decades, in alphabetical order by title of publication.
Box 130
Publications, 1974-1988
Scope and Content Note
Titles from the 1970s include
Architectural Forum,
Architectureplus,
Monumentum,
Heritage Canada, and
Windsor Station/La Gare Windsor, the latter a booklet published by the Friends of Windsor Station describing its history and restoration. Titles from the
1980s include
Ambiente,
Architecture California,
Gentlemen's Quarterly,
Historic Preservation,
Progressive Architecture, and
Regionale West.
Box 131
Publications, 1990-2002
Scope and Content Note
Titles from the 1990s include
American Bungalow,
Angeles,
Architectural Digest,
Architectural Record,
Architecture,
Classic Home,
Historic Preservation,
Journal of the Taliesin Fellows, and
Old House Journal. Titles from the 2000s include
Architectural Record (May 2000) and
Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly (Volume 13, Numbers 2 and 3, Spring and Summer 2002); the issue of
Architectural Record contains many Post-it notes, which have been left in place, and the issues of
Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly contain the feature, "Conserving Wright's Architecture," Parts 1 and 2, the latter with an image of Hollyhock House on its
cover.
Box 132
Publications, 1975-1996.
Scope and Content Note
Contains chiefly oversize publications, including
Domus,
Global Architecture and
L'Arca. Also includes a hardcover reprint of Volumes 65 and 66 of
El Croquis, devoted to Jean Novel (1996); three copies of the booklet,
The El Capitan Theatre: Hollywood's Classic Movie Palace (1991); a few issues of
Los Angeles Times Magazine,
New York Times Magazine,
L.A. Life, and
L.A. Style; and a duplicate issue of
Architectural Digest (see Box 131).
Box 94
Rubber stamps
Scope and Content Note
Contains three rubber stamps, two with the text "Martin Eli Weil, Restoration Architect" and one with the text "Martin Eli
Weil - Licensed Architect."
Series III. Office Records.
1981-1983; 1985-2008
Physical Description: 2 boxes
Box 133
Appointment Books, 1981-1983, 1985-1999
Scope and Content Note
Contains 22 volumes
Box 134
Appointment Books, 2000-2008
Scope and Content Note
Contains 9 volumes
Series IV. Project Records.
1969-2009
1979-2008
Physical Description: 121 boxes and 2 oversize folders of papers, drawings, photographs, objects, and media items
Scope and Content Note
This series forms the bulk of the collection and comprises project files, which may include contracts, specifications, correspondence,
drawings, photographs, invoices, research materials, and information about particular rooms or features in a given job; and
materials separated from these files by Weil, including photographs, chiefly snapshots of work in progress; rolled drawings;
objects, comprising mostly materials fragments and paint samples; and audiovisual and electronic media.
For details about the individual projects including box and folder numbers for papers, drawings, photographs, and other materials;
clients and collaborators; addresses and neighborhoods; project dates; scope of Weil's work; titles of reports authored or
co-authored by Weil; original architects and historic designations; awards; titles and dimensions of rolled drawings; and
other information, please see the Project Index.
Arrangement
The original order of Weil's project records, in which projects were arranged in alphabetical order chiefly by project name
but also by client name, especially in the case of major projects involving multiple individual jobs, has been maintained.
Within projects, files that were disordered have been arranged either alphabetically or chronologically, depending on the
nature of the material.
Files
Physical Description: 46 boxes and 2 oversize folders
Box 1
Abbey - Armory
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: The Abbey (San Encino Abbey); Allen House (First African Methodist Church); Angel's Flight, Job 9543; Anokia:
Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation; Arbol Verde Specific Plan; and Armory Center for Visual Arts (Armory
Center for the Arts).
Box 2
Barnsdall Park: General
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Barnsdall Park: Archiplan Urban Design Collaborative (1988-1993); Barnsdall Park Jobs 9428 and 9548.
Barnsdall Park: Hollyhock House and Theodore Barnsdall Memorial
Box 3
Hollyhock House, Job 9104
Scope and Content Note
Includes various files related to the Hollyhock House Historic Structures Report and to Hollyhock House in general.
Box 4
Hollyhock House, Job 9104, versions of Historic Structures Report
Scope and Content Note
Includes undated draft version of report and 3-volume version dated 1992.
Box 5
Hollyhock House - Various Jobs; Theodore Barnsdall Memorial, Job 9105
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Hollyhock House Garage; Theodore Barnsdall Memorial, Job 9105, Historic Structures Report; Hollyhock House,
Job 9549; and Hollyhock House Paint Study (1996).
Report covers and blueprints
Scope and Content Note
Contains oversize original report covers and negatives of blueprints used in the Hollyhock House Historic Structures Report
(Job 9104); the materials were removed from Box 4, Folder 8.
Box 6
Barnsdall Park: Hollyhock House, Schindler Terrace, Barnsdall Park Seismic
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Hollyhock House, Jobs 9896 and 9782; Hollyhock House Living Room; Hollyhock House Niche Roof; Barnsdall
Park Seismic, Job 9897; Schindler Terrace, Job 9898; and Barnsdall Park Seismic Repair, Jobs 96125 and 992002 (see also materials
in Boxes 7 and 8).
Box 7
1998-2003
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials relating to Jobs 96125, 96125A, and 96125E, including F.E.M.A. work program and F.E.M.A. repair and mitigation.
See also Box 6.
Box 8
2000-2005
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials relating to Jobs 96125, 96125A, 96125E, and 99002, including F.E.M.A. work program, F.E.M.A. repair and
mitigation, Phase I Master Plan, and Hollyhock House Phase II restoration. See also Box 6.
Box 9
Bembridge House - Bullock's Pasadena
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Bembridge House; 2111 Bonsallo Avenue; Bovard Auditorium; Bradbury Building; Broadway Trade Center; and
Bullock's Pasadena/Macy's, Job 9556.
Box 10
Bullock's Pasadena
Scope and Content Note
Project: Bullock's Pasadena/Macy's, Job 9556.
Box 11
Cantu - The Citadel
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Cantu Residence; Charmont Apartments, Job 9553; Chateau Arnaz; Church of the Epiphany Rectory; and The Citadel.
Box 12
Collins - El Capitan
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Collins Residences; Colorado Street Bridge; Cook/Moran Residence; Corona Naval Station - Naval Weapons Center;
Culbertson House; Curtis/Adler Residence; Darling House; Dominguez Adobe (Dominguez Ranch Adobe); Downey Historical Arch;
The Ebell Club of Los Angeles; Edmondson/Sutton Residence; El Cadiz Apartments; and El Capitan/Paramount Theater Jobs 9439,
9550, 9672, and 9789.
Box 13
El Capitan
Scope and Content Note
Projects include El Capitan/Paramount Theater Jobs 9439, 9550, 9672, and 9789; El Capitan Building (CIMCO); and Disney Store,
El Capitan Building
Box 14
El Encanto - El Molino Viejo
Scope and Content Note
Projects include El Encanto; El Greco Apartments; and El Molino Viejo.
Box 15
El Pueblo - Freed
Scope and Content Note
Projects include El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historic Park; El Pueblo International Plaza; Emerson School; Engine House
#18; Ennis House; Ennis-Brown House; Family Pleasures; Farrell Residence; Fasman Residence; Feiner Residence; Fenton Residence;
Fine Arts Building; Fisher Residence; Flinton Residence; Forthmann Carriage House (Frost/Childs Residence); Fox Studios; and
Freed Residence.
Box 16
Freeman - Freeport
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Freeman House; Freeman House, Job 9441; and Freeport Historical Society.
Box 18
Glendale
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Glendale Masonic Temple; Glendale Public Service Building, Job 9113; and Glendale Railroad Station, Job 9114.
Box 19
Golay - Griffith
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Golay Residence; Gold Residence; Goldsmith Residence; Goldstein/Gabor Residence; Goodwin Residence; Grand
Central Public Market Building; Green Residence; Greene Residence (Henry Weaver House); Greystone Mansion; and Griffith Observatory.
Box 20
Halifax - Bob Hope Veterans Chapel
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Hall of Justice; Hamilton Residences; Hamm Residence; Hanna House; Harris Residence; William S. Hart Museum,
Jobs 9110 and 9440; William S. Hart Park; Jascha Heifitz Studio; Hodgman House; Hollywood Downtowner Inn; and Bob Hope Veterans
Chapel.
Box 21
Huntington - Joelson
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Huntington Hotel; Huntington Mausoleum; I. Magnin, Job 9556; Isenberg Residence, Job 9544; Italian Hall;
Jensen Ranch House; and Joelson, Job 9101. For continuation of Joelson, see Boxes 22-23.
Box 22
General and Topics A-D
Scope and Content Note
Includes faxes dated 1991-1992; Financial-invoice approvals; Specifications; and topics Arbor-Design/Dressing Room.
Box 23
Topics E-Z
Scope and Content Note
Includes topics Electrical-Zoning Code.
Box 24
Johnson - Lanterman
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Johnson Ranch, Job 9316; Kaplan Residence; Kaufmann House; Keely Residence; Keeper Residence; Kern County
Hall of Records; Klieman Residences; Lance Residence; and Lanterman House.
Box 25
La Quinta - La Verne
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: La Quinta Hotel, Job 9905; La Reina Theater; Larsen Residence; and multiple projects for the City of La
Verne, California, including the Lordsburg Specific Plan, Job 9107. See also Boxes 26 and 27 for more projects for the City
of La Verne.
Box 26
B Street - Henderson Building
Box 27
Heritage Foundation, Job 9557-La Verne West Shopping Center
Box 28
Ledbetter - Lyman/Malle
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Ledbetter Residence; Lincoln Heights Library; Elizabeth Millbank Anderson House/Long Beach Museum of Art;
Nine Residences - World Trade Center Site: Long Beach Heritage Foundation; Mrs. Loo; Looff Carousel Roof; Los Angeles County
Crematory, Job 9545; Los Angeles Stock Exchange; and Lyman/Malle Residence.
Box 29
MacGowan
Scope and Content Note
Contains projects for MacGowan Residence/PRANA West.
Box 30
Madera/Klokstad - March
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Madera/Klokstad Residence and March Air Force Base.
Box 31
General and Job 9211, Topics A-P
Scope and Content Note
Includes Advertisement, Awards, Contractor Invoices, and Job 9211, topics Audiovisual-Permits Contractor.
Box 32
Jobs 9211 and Other
Scope and Content Note
Includes Job 9211, topics Picture Rail-Window Shades; Mariposa Cottage, Job 9314; Mariposa Pool and Guest House, Job 9321;
and Mariposa Garage, Carport, and Shed, Jobs 9427 and 9429.
Box 33
Marotta - McCormick (Pratt House)
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Marotta Residence , Job 9667; Marotta Residence (1996-1998); Masonic Temple; May Company Department Store,
Jobs 9665 and 9673; Mayflower Hotel; McBain Residence; and McCormick, Ken: Pratt House.
Box 34
McNally - Mentryville
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: McNally Ranch Master plan; Medical Square; Mellinkoff, Dan: 59 E. Colorado Blvd. and Bear Building; and
projects at Mentryville Historic Site.
Box 35
Miller - Oviatt
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Miller Residence, Job 9561; Million Dollar Theater; Mira Monte Hotel; Mission Inn; Modjeska Well House; multiple
projects for the City of Monrovia, California; Moore Residence, Job 9112; Morrell House; Morris Residence; Morton Morton House;
MSIA/Prana: MSIA - Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness; Mount St. Mary's College; Natural History Museum - Los Angeles County;
Neal-Wagner Residence; Neith/Catbagan Residence; 3 Bridge St. (Nelson Residence); Ocean Heirlooms; Old Dutch Parsonage; Old
Riverside Foundation; Omaha architecture survey; Ontario Band Stand; projects for City of Orange, California; Ordin Residence;
and Oviatt Building.
Box 36
Pacific - Pasadena
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Pacific Asia Museum, Job 9554; Pacific Coast Club; Parliament Hill; and multiple projects for the City of
Pasadena, including Pasadena City Hall.
Box 37
Pasadena - Poole
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: City of Pasadena, Pasadena City Hall; Patuxent Manor; Peace Theological Seminary; Peacock Residence; Pellissier
Building/Wiltern Theater; Pico House; Pico-Garnier Project; Pierson Residence; Point Fermin Lighthouse; and Poole Residence
(The Blacker House)
Box 38
Porterville - Reynolds
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: City of Porterville, California; Ramsay-Durfee Estate, Job 9552; Rancho Los Alamitos, Job 9558; Rancho Los
Cerritos; Rance Residence; Reinke/Milligan Residence; and Reynolds Residence (aka Marx Residence), Jobs 9103 and 9117.
Box 39
Rheinstein - Saint John
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Rheinstein Residence, Job 9313; Richter Residence; Rieck/Borchert Residence; Ringwood Manor; Robinson's
Department Store; Rolling M Ranch Historic District; Ronus Residence; Rothschild Residence; Rounds Residence, Jobs 9674 and
9675; Rubin/Sosin Residence; Saint Francis Xavier Church; and Saint John, New Brunswick
Box 40
Saint John's - Saint Vincent
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Saint John's Episcopal Church; Saint Thomas' Rectory; Saint Vibiana's Cathedral; and projects at Saint Vincent
Square/Saint Vincent Jewelry Center.
Box 41
Salisbury - San Gabriel
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Salisbury Manor and multiple projects for the City of San Gabriel.
Box 42
San Gabriel - Schein
Scope and Content Note
Projects include multiple projects for the City of San Gabriel; Santa Clarita Historical Society; Santa Fe Depot Specific
Plan, Job 9118; Santa Monica Carousel, Job 9435; and Schein Residence.
Box 43
Seal Beach - Swan
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Seal Beach Naval Station; Selzer Residence; Sepulveda House; Shaw Residence; Shay Residences; Shriver Residence;
Simkins Residence; Siqueiros Mural; Sisters of Social Service Residence; Smith Residence; Sohnen Residence; Sosin Residence;
South Pasadena High School Auditorium; South Seas House; Southwest Museum; C. C. Stafford Milling and Warehouse Company; Stipanov
Residence, Job 9116; Storer House; Stuyvesant Fish House; and Swan Residence
Box 44
Thorsen - F. E. Warren
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Thorsen House; Toberman Residences; Tomin-Horn Residence, Job 9437; Truxtun Galleria; Tyson [Residence?];
Union Church, Job 9436; Universalist-Unitarian Church; Vaccarino Residence, Job 9787; Venice Canal; Vermont Square (Branch)
Library, Job 9547; Vignette - Pacific Design Center; Villa Riviera projects; Wagner Residence; and F. E. Warren Air Force
Base
Folder OV 5
Toberman Residence: Stencils
Scope and Content Note
Contains stencils for design of living room ceiling, plus a letter from an interior designer dated 1985 and a two-page typewritten
description of the design work for the stencils by designer Woody Cutler.
Box 45
Wattles - Winston
Scope and Content Note
Projects include: Wattles Mansion; West Adams Residences; Lucy Wheeler House; White-Thomson Residence, Job 9203; Whitley Heights
Gates; Los Angeles Public Library - Wilmington Branch, Job 9555; and Winston Residence.
Box 46
Woodbury - Ziegler
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Woodbury Residence; Young Apartments; and Ziegler Residence.
Photographs
Physical Description: 17 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographic prints and photograph albums that were filed separately from those in the Files subseries; also includes
photographic negatives. In a few instances, the photographs in this subseries are the only documentation found in this collection
for a project; this is the case with photographs from Alta Loma Packing; Citrus State Park; Cooper Regional Museum Upland;
Los Angeles City Hall; Pasadena Playhouse Theater Area; Phillips Mansion; Rancho Camulos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose
City Dental; W. R. Rowland Adobe; Santa Monica City Hall, Council Chamber; and Strawberry Banke and Maine. The collection
contains both photographs and fragments and samples from Workman Temple and West Adams residences/commercial buildings.
Box 47
Anoakia - Cooper Regional Museum
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Anoakia; Alta Loma Packing; Barnsdall Park; Bullock's/I. Magnin; Bullock's Pasadena; Charmont Apartments;
Collins Residences; and Cooper Regional Museum Upland.
Box 48
El Capitan
Scope and Content Note
Projects include El Capitan/Paramount Theater and Disney Store, El Capitan Building.
Box 49
El Capitan - Glendale Railroad Station
Scope and Content Note
Projects include El Capitan/Paramount Theater and Disney Store, El Capitan Building; El Encanto; Farrell Residence; Gamble
House; Glendale Public Service Building; and Glendale Railroad Station.
Box 50
Green - Joelson
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Green Residence; Hamilton Residence; Hanna House; Harvard Heights; and Joelson Residence.
Box 51
Joelson - La Verne
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Joelson Residence; Keely Residence; La Reina Theater; and La Verne, City of.
Box 52
La Verne - MacGowan
Scope and Content Note
Projects include La Verne, City of; Los Angeles City Hall; and MacGowan Residence.
Box 53
Mariposa - Marotta
Scope and Content Note
Projects Mariposa and Marotta Residence.
Box 54
Mariposa
Scope and Content Note
Contains photographs of Mariposa by Raymond Kwan.
Box 55
Marx (Reynolds) - Monrovia
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Marx (Reynolds) Residence; Masonic Temple; Miller Residence; and Monrovia, City of.
Box 56
Pacific Asia Museum - Saint John's Church
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Pacific Asia Museum; Pasadena Playhouse; Phillips Mansion; Porterville, City of; Rancho Camulos; Rheinstein
Residence; Robinson Gardens (Virginia Robinson); Rothschild Residence; Rowland House; and Saint John's Episcopal Church.
Box 57
Saint Vincent Jewelry Center
Box 58
San Gabriel - Sohnen
Scope and Content Note
Projects include San Gabriel, City of; Santa Fe Railroad Station; Santa Monica City Hall; Simkins Residence; and Sohnen Residence.
Box 59
Sohnen - Wheeler
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Sohnen Residence; Stipanov Residence; Strawberry Banke and Maine; Stuyvesant Fish House; Tomin/Horn Residence;
West Adams commercial building; and Lucy Wheeler House.
Box 60
Wheeler - Workman and unidentified
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Lucy Wheeler House; Wiltern/Pellisier Building; and Workman Temple. Also includes photographs of unidentified
sites taken by Marla Felber, and slides, possibly of the Steuben Library, which may have been used in teaching.
Box 61
Photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Scope and Content Note
Two photograph albums showing work on Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including Storer House.
Negatives
Scope and Content Note
Boxes 62 and 63 contain negatives removed from Boxes 47-60, and Box 135 contains negatives removed from the main body of project
files (Boxes 1-46).
Box 62
Anoakia - Marotta
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Anoakia; Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; Bullock's Pasadena and I. Magnin; Charmont Apartments; Citrus
State Park; Cooper Regional Museum; El Capitan; Farrell Residence; Gamble House; Glendale Public Services Building; Glendale
Railroad Station; Green Residence; Hamilton Residence; Harvard Heights (West Adams, Cambridge and Oxford); Joelson Residence;
Keely Residence; La Reina Theatre; City of La Verne; Los Angeles City Hall; MacGowan Residence; Mariposa; and Marotta Residence.
Box 63
Marx (Reynolds) - unidentified
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Marx (Reynolds) Residence; Masonic Temple; Miller Residence; City of Monrovia; Pacific Asia Museum; Pasadena
Playhouse; Phillips Mansion; Porterville; Rancho Camulus; Rheinstein Residence; Robinson Gardens; Rothschild Residence; Saint
John's Episcopal Church; Saint Vincent Jewelry Center; City of San Gabriel; Santa Fe Railroad Station (City of Orange); Santa
Monica City Hall; Simkins Residence; Sohnen Residence; Stipanov Residence; Strawberry Banke and Maine; Stuyvesant Fish House;
Tomin/Horn Residence; West Adams commercial buildings; Lucy Wheeler House; Wiltern/Pellesier Building; and unidentified negatives.
Box 135
Arbol Verde - White-Thomson
Scope and Content Note
Projects include Arbol Verde; Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; Bullock's Pasadena; The Citadel; Collins Residence; El Encanto;
Farrell Residence; Feiner Residence; Glendale Public Service Building; Green Residence; Hanna House; William S. Hart Park
and Museum; Heifitz Studio; City of La Verne; MacGowan Residence; Mariposa; Marotta Residence; Mentryville; Neal-Wagner Residence;
Pacific Coast Club; Reynolds (Marx) Residence; Saint Vincent Square; City of San Gabriel; Sepulveda House; Simkins Residence;
Wagner Residence; Lucy Wheeler House; and White-Thomson Residence.
Objects
Physical Description: 29 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Contains materials fragments, paint and stain samples, and other objects, including pieces of walls, ceilings, carpeting,
sideboards, and ornamentation including grilles. In a few cases, these materials are the only record of a project in the collection:
132 East Colorado Boulevard; 1746 Hobart Boulevard; and Vineland Hotel. Additionally, Workman Temple and a few West Adams
residences and commercial buildings have both photographs and fragments.
These objects were arranged chiefly by previous archivists during the process of conservation.
Box 66
2801 Arlington - Armory
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from 2801 Arlington; 2111 Bonsallo; 1746 Hobart; 132 E. Colorado; Elizabeth Millbank Anderson House/Long
Beach Museum of Art; Angel's Flight; and Armory Center for Visual Arts.
Box 67
Bear Building - Colorado Street Bridge
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Bear Building; Bembridge; The Blacker (Poole Residence); Bovard Administration Building; Bradbury
Building; Charmont; Citadel; Collins Residence; and Colorado Street Bridge.
Box 68
Paint samples
Scope and Content Note
Contains pieces of wood with stains or paint on them from box originally labeled "Collins residence 'C'."
Box 69
Siding
Scope and Content Note
Contains portion of wood beam siding. Caution: the piece includes rusty nails.
Box 70
Carpeting
Scope and Content Note
Contains two pieces of carpeting.
Box 71
Culbertson House - Felton School
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Culbertson House; Darling House; The Ebell Club of Los Angeles; Emerson School; Ennis House; and Felton
School House (Mentryville Historic Site).
Box 72
Glendale Railroad Station - Hart Ranch
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Glendale Railroad Station; Greene Residence; Griffith Observatory; and William S. Hart Ranch.
Barnsdall Park/Hollyhock House
Scope and Content Note
Boxes contain pieces and fragments from various sites, chiefly in Hollyhock House, most of which are labeled.
Box 73
Portions of building, Hollyhock House
Scope and Content Note
Contains two unidentified portions of building, one approximately 8" x 10" x 8" and one approximately 4" x 5" x 4".
Box 74
Fragments and pieces, Hollyhock House and Hollyhock House Garage
Box 75
Painted plaster tiles, Hollyhock House
Scope and Content Note
Contains three gold-painted plaster tiles, each 25 x 25 cm.
Box 76
Fragments and pieces, Hollyhock House and Residence A
Scope and Content Note
Contains fragments from Rooms 1, 4-12, 16, 18-19, Servants' dining room, and Music Room; also contains fragments from Residence
A.
Box 77
Fragments and pieces, Hollyhock House
Scope and Content Note
Includes portions of Hollyhock House exterior, entry loggia, living room, and other locations.
Box 78
Fragments and pieces, Hollyhock House and Residence A
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from various rooms in Hollyhock House and from Residence A. Also includes list of interior paint samples
for Rooms 3, 5 9, and 10 and for Pergola and "Sugartop Porch."
Box 79A
Paint and plaster samples, Hollyhock House and Residence A
Scope and Content Note
Contains samples from Hollyhock House dining room, living room, and other locations, and from Residence A; materials in Boxes
79A and 79B were originally found in one box. Also contains handwritten note by Weil stating that the box contains "important
plaster and paint samples from the Hollyhock House," dated 1999 February 23.
Box 79B
Fragments and samples, Hollyhock House and Residence A
Scope and Content Note
Contains sheet of paper with labeled samples of various shades of paint attached. Two samples, for Nile Green paint and for
Nile Green paint with bronze powder overlay, are missing. Materials in Boxes 79A and 79B were originally found in same box.
Box 80
Wallpaper, Hollyhock House
Scope and Content Note
Contains a sample of wallpaper from the Music Room, originally accompanied by a Post-it note stating that the sample is important.
Box 81
Samples, ceiling and opera boxes
Scope and Content Note
Contains labeled pieces from ceiling and opera boxes.
Box 82
Sample, new plaster
Scope and Content Note
Contains portion of a wall with label, "El Capitan new plaster."
Box 83
Felton School - Fox Studios
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Felton School House (Mentryville Historic Site); Fine Arts Association Building; Stuyvesant Fish House;
and Fox Studios.
Box 84
Fox Studios - Gamble House
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Fox Studios; Freeman House; and Gamble House.
Box 85
Bob Hope Veterans Chapel - Keeper House
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Bob Hope Veterans Chapel; Italian Hall; Jensen Ranch; Keeper House; and La Reina Theater.
Box 86
La Verne - Los Angeles Public Library, Wilmington Branch
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from City of La Verne; Lanterman House; Lincoln Heights Library; Looff House; and Wilmington Branch Library.
Box 87
Los Angeles Public Library, Wilmington Branch - Mariposa
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Wilmington Branch Library; MacGowan Residence and Peace Theological Seminary; and Mariposa.
Box 88
Mayflower - Mentryville
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Mayflower Hotel and Mentryville Superintendent's House.
Box 89
Million Dollar Theater - Pratt
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Million Dollar Theater; Mission Inn; Morrell House; Pacific Asia Museum; Patuxent Manor; Point Fermin;
Poole House (Blacker House); and Pratt House (McCormick).
Box 90
Rancho Los Alamitos - Storer House
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Rancho Los Alamitos; Rancho Los Cerritos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose City Dental; San Gabriel
Bank; Santa Clarita Historical Society; South Pasadena High School Auditorium; and South Seas House. Also includes piece of
an original cast-concrete block designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Storer House, 1923.
Box 91
Various
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Toberman Residence and Point Fermin; also includes baseboard from Felton School House (Mentryville).
Box 92
Vermont Square Library - Young Apartments
Scope and Content Note
Includes materials from Vermont Square Library; Villa Riviera; Saint Vincent Jewelry Center; Vineland Hotel; Workman Temple;
and Young Apartments. Also includes shingles with original stain and wallpaper from various rooms in Wheeler House, and fragments
labeled "West Adams building."
Box 93
Various
Scope and Content Note
Includes pieces of ceiling, molding from balcony and wall, and opera box of El Capitan Theater; pieces of painted boards and
original roof covering of Wheeler House; and unidentified fragments.
Media
Physical Description: 46 items in 3 boxes
Scope and Content Note
Includes 42 compact discs containing reports and images, two floppy disks, one audiocassette, and one microcassette. Information
about titles, where available, is in the Project Index.
Items were arranged by format and then alphabetically by project.
Box 95
Barnsdall Park - Peace Theological Seminary
Scope and Content Note
Contains 34 compact discs regarding Barnsdall Park (Items 1-6); Bullock's Pasadena/Macy's (Items 7-31); Gamble House (Item
32); Morton Morton House (Item 33); and MacGowan House/Peace Theological Seminary (Item 34).
Box 96A
San Gabriel, City of
Scope and Content Note
Contains 8 compact discs. Items 1-7 concern projects for the City of San Gabriel. Item 8, labeled "Chapters 8, 10," is from
an unidentified project.
Box 96B
Various
Scope and Content Note
Includes floppy disk for Hamilton Residence (Item 1); floppy disk for Marotta Residence (Item 2); and two unlabeled audiocassettes
(one a microcassette), found loose in box labeled "2175 Cambridge" [Wheeler House] (Items 3 and 4).
Drawings
Physical Description: approximately 2840 drawings in 265 rolls in 26 boxes
Scope and Content Note
See the Project Index for details about these drawings. In a few instances, the collection contains rolled drawings without
any other project documentation; in these cases, drawings have been described below.
Rolls 3-5
Bullock's Pasadena/Macy's, Job 9556
Roll 6
Larry Bunker
Scope and Content Note
Live Oak Drive East, Los Angeles. Collection contains drawings only; no other project documentation found. Two drawings, labeled
survey of tracts of Lots 21 and 22, Samuel Becker drawing survey, 69 x 77 cm.
Roll 7
Chapman Park Market
Scope and Content Note
3451 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020. Collection contains drawings only; no other project documentation found. Eight
drawings, 1928 (copies), 47 x 65 cm.
Rolls 20-28
El Capitan Theater and Building
Rolls 30-37
Farrell Residence, Job 9431
Roll 43
Forthmann Carriage House (Frost/Childs Residence)
Roll 44
Glendale Public Service Building
Rolls 45-46
Glendale Railroad Station
Roll 62
Ipshur House
Scope and Content Note
Collection contains drawings only; no other project documentation found. 11 drawings, Gerard Colcord originals 1933 (copies),
ca 56 x 87 cm.
Roll 73
Kern County Hall of Records
Rolls 76-78
La Verne: Multiple projects
Rolls 94-97
Mariposa: Multiple projects
Rolls 98-108
Marotta Residence, Job 9667
Rolls 112-115
Mentryville Historic Site: Multiple projects
Roll 122
Pantages Theater
Scope and Content Note
Historical Pantages Theater, Hollywood, California. Collection contains drawings only; no other project documentation found.
3 drawings, undated, 79 x 105 cm and smaller.
Rolls 127-128
Reynolds Residence (Marx Residence)
Roll 131
Saint John's Episcopal Church
Rolls 132-137
Saint Vincent Jewelry Center
Roll 139
Santa Fe Depot Specific Plan
Box 114
U-W (Rolls 149-161)
Scope and Content Note
See Series II, Subseries A: Writings and Related Research, Paul Williams drawings, for information about the drawings in Box
114, Rolls 159-160; and Series II, Subseries F: Posters and Drawings, for information about Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, Box
114, Roll 161.
Roll 149
University of Southern California, Bovard Administration
Roll 150
Villa Riviera Condominium
Box 115
Martin Eli Weil Thesis drawings (Rolls 162-169)
Scope and Content Note
See Series I: Personal Papers, Student Work, for information about these drawings.
Box 116
Barnsdall Park (Rolls 170-184)
Rolls 170-184
Multiple projects and sites
Box 117
Barnsdall Park (Rolls 185-198)
Rolls 185-194
Multiple projects and sites
Rolls 195-198
Residence A
Scope and Content Note
See also Folder OV 1 (Series II, Subseries Posters and Drawings) for a photographic reproduction of a poster showing Frank
Lloyd Wright's drawings for a millwork schedule for Residence A, 1924.
Box 118
Hollyhock House (Rolls 199-213)
Box 119
Hollyhock House (Rolls 214-221)
Box 120
Hollyhock House (Rolls 222-233)
Box 121
Hollyhock House (Rolls 234-235)
Box 122
Hollyhock House (Rolls 246-253)
Rolls 249-253
Hollyhock House Historic Structures Report, Job 9104
Box 123
Barnsdall Park (Rolls 254-263)
Rolls 254-258
Theodore Barnsdall Memorial Historic Structures Report, Job 9105
Rolls 259-263
Hollyhock House, Barnsdall Park, Phase I Master Plan Implementation
