Description
The Carleton Monroe Winslow Sr. papers span 40 linear feet and date from circa 1911 to circa 1946. The collection contains
architectural drawings and reprographic copies; records concerning Winslow family genealogy; travel records in the form of
sketchbooks, watercolor paintings, and black-and-white photographs; a small bookplate and stamp collection; correspondence
concerning architectural projects; published articles written by Winslow; awards; Winslow’s reference files which take the
form of architectural reference books, clippings from newspapers and magazines, as well as photographs; specifications; time
sheets from Winslow’s firm; and handwritten project lists.
Background
Carleton Monroe Winslow Sr. was born in Maine on December 12, 1876. He studied architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago
and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, studying in the Atelier Pascal and in the Atelier Stelier Chiffot Greres. Just out
of school, Winslow secured a job with Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson in New York. He was promoted within the firm in 1911 as the
supervising architect of the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, a project on which he worked for four years. Once
in San Diego, Winslow decided to stay and opened an office in 1915, when he received his state license to practice. In 1917,
Winslow moved to Los Angeles to work with Goodhue on the design of the Los Angeles Public Library headquarters, which he completed
after Goodhue’s death in 1924. In 1918, Winslow opened up a second office in Santa Barbara where he designed Cottage Hospital
and worked with Floyd E. Brewster on the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Other noteworthy commissions that Winslow
received in Santa Barbara include: the Bliss, Billings, and Wilder residences. In Santa Barbara, Winslow also worked with
Edward Fisher Brown on
Small House Designs published by the Community Arts Association. Throughout his career Winslow was best known for the churches his designed including:
Community Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, the First Baptist Church in Pasadena, and Mary Star of the Sea Church in La
Jolla, California. Carleton Monroe Winslow died in Los Angeles on October 16, 1946.