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Title: Reginald Johnson papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000146
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
6.0 Linear feet
(2 record storage boxes and 9 flat file folders)
Date (inclusive): circa 1912-circa 1950
creator:
Johnson, Reginald D., 1882-1953
creator:
Stevens, Ralph T
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of John Pitman, 1989. Additional material gifted by Bruce Abbott, 1999 and Edward Cella, 1999.
Reginald Johnson papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Reginald Johnson was born in Westchester, New York on July 19, 1882. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 1910. Johnson received collegiate office training in the offices of Myron Hunt,
Elmer Grey and Robert D. Farquhar. Upon graduation, Johnson moved to Pasadena and began practicing architecture in 1912. By
1920, he had joined forces with Gordon B. Kauffmann to form Johnson and Kaufmann, Architects. One year later Roland Coate
joined the firm and the name changed to Johnson, Kaufmann and Coate. The practice lasted four years, dissolving in 1925. Johnson
then went on to establish his own independent practice until 1934, when he publically announced his withdrawal from general
architectural practice. His more notable projects include: the Santa Barbara Post Office and the Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel.
After 1935, Reginald Johnson devoted himself to providing housing for low-income individuals and families. Johnson co-founded
the Los Angeles Citizen’s Housing Council and served as the Chief Architect for public housing projects in Los Angeles, including,
Harbor Hills and Rancho San Pedro. Reginald Johnson died in 1952, at the age of 70.
The Reginald Johnson papers span 6 linear feet and date from circa 1912 to circa 1950. The collection contains photographs,
architectural drawings and reprographic copies for nine buildings in the Santa Barbara area, a hospital in Los Angeles, and
two residences in Pasadena.
Black-and-white interior and exterior photographs, a site plan by Ralph T. Stevens, and drawings document the Harold Chase
residence in Hope Ranch. Photographic panels and drawings relate to additions to the Mrs. Stanley McCormick "Riven Rock" residence
in Santa Barbara. The collection includes the site plan, but no other drawings, for the Senator Clark estate, "Bellosguardo,"
also in Santa Barbara.
Plans for the gardens and a garden pavilion for the J. L. Severance house in Pasadena were transferred to this collection
from the Roland Coate papers.
Related Archival Materials note
Gordon B. Kauffman drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Roland Eli Coate, Sr. papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate drawings for Saint Paul's Catherdral, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture
Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Johnson, Reginald D., 1882-1953
Architectural drawings
Photographic prints
Presentation drawings (proposals)
Reprographic copies