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Title: Claud W. Beelman architectural drawings
Identifier/Call Number: 0000372
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
42.0 Linear feet
157 tubes of rolled drawings (15 flat file drawers)
Date: circa 1923- circa 1960s
creator:
Beelman, Claud W., 1884-1963
creator:
Brandow & Johnston.
creator:
Curlett & Beelman.
creator:
Curlett, Alexander E., 1880-1942
Gift of Gregg Brandow, 2018.
Claud W. Beelman was born in Ohio in 1883 and attended architecture school at Harvard. After practicing on the east coast
and in Ohio and Indiana, Beelman moved to Los Angeles in 1921. He formed a partnership with Aleck Curlett (Curlett & Beelman),
which lasted until 1932. Beelman died in 1963.
During the building boom of the 1920s, Curlett & Beelman designed many of the commercial buildings in downtown Los Angeles
in both the Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance styles. After the firm dissolved, Beelman designed buildings in the Art Deco
and Moderne styles throughout the 1930s, and moved into designing Modern buildings after World War II. Many of Beelman's buildings
are on the Mational Register of Historic Places, as well as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
The Claud Beelman collection contains original drawings of mostly commercial buildings constructed in the Los Angeles area
between the early 1920s and the early 1960s. Some projects consist of preliminary sketches, working drawings, and presentation
drawings; some projects also include structural or mechanical plans as well. The drawings are mainly original graphite on
tracing paper or ink on linen. There are a few blueprints and diazotypes.
Conditions Governing Access note
Processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Claud W. Beelman architectural drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Related Archival Materials note
Curlett & Beelman records, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Marcus P. Miller papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.