Dennis & Farwell and Oliver P. Dennis Architecture Photographs, approximately 1895-1913

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Summary

Title:
Dennis & Farwell and Oliver P. Dennis architecture photographs
Dates:
approximately 1895-1913
Abstract:
Photographs of Los Angeles-area buildings and residences designed by Oliver P. Dennis or his partnership Dennis & Farwell, approximately 1895 to 1913.
Extent:
1.67 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Dennis & Farwell and Oliver P. Dennis architecture photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

Two albums of photographs of buildings and houses designed by Oliver P. Dennis or Dennis & Farwell, primarily in the Los Angeles area, approximately 1895-1913. One album is titled: "Dennis and Farwell. Architects, Los Angeles," and the other: "Oliver P. Dennis, Architect, Los Angeles," though some buildings appear in both albums. The prints are black and white and primarily 8 x 10 inches, and there are no identifications except for a few names in pencil. The images include many exteriors and interiors of grand residences of the turn of the 20th century, showing furnishings and decor. Identified residences include those of: Henry Fisher, Redlands (1897); Erasmus Wilson, West Adams (1903); John Cline, West Adams (1903) and Rollin B. Lane, Hollywood (1909), now the Magic Castle nightclub. Other buildings shown include: Union Bank, Pasadena (many interiors), Culver City Grammar School, Hotel Hollywood (1902), Merchants Trust Company building, Hotel Chickasaw, F.P. Fay building, as well as high schools, churches, and other office buildings. Several houses and buildings are unidentified.

Biographical / historical:

Dennis & Farwell was a Los Angeles architecture firm formed in 1895 by architects Oliver P. Dennis (1858-1927) and Lyman Farwell (1864-1933). They designed many commercial, institutional, and grand residential buildings in the Los Angeles region through 1913, when the partnership dissolved.
Dennis continued working on his own or in brief partnerships into the early 1920s. Farwell went on to serve in the California State Assembly.

Oliver P. Dennis was born in New York and worked as an architect from 1889 to 1895 in Tacoma, Washington. From 1895-1913 he was part of the partnership Dennis & Farwell in Los Angeles.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Stephen White Gallery, February 1978.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library staff, late-20th century. In 2021, Suzanne Oatey created a finding aid.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Suzanne Oatey
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-05-27 08:57:52 -0700 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Dennis & Farwell and Oliver P. Dennis architecture photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2129
reference@huntington.org
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