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  • Restrictions on Access
  • Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
  • Provenance/Source of Acquisition
  • Preferred Citation
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Processing Information
  • Biography
  • Biographical Narrative
  • Scope and Content
  • Expanded Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Edward Huntsman-Trout papers
    Creator: Huntsman-Trout, Edward
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1186
    Physical Description: 20.5 Linear Feet (41 boxes)
    Physical Description: 101 oversize_boxes
    Date (inclusive): 1916-1974
    Date (bulk): 1923-1972
    Abstract: Edward Huntsman-Trout (1889-1974) was a landscape architect. He worked in Boston and Ohio before starting a practice under his own name in Los Angeles. The collection consists primarily of blueprints and tissue designs as well as correspondence, sketches, and photographs related to Huntsman-Trout's work.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
    • Gift of Mrs. Huntsman-Trout, 1977.
    • Gift of Neville and Mary Comerford, 1988.
    • Gift of Olivia Peter Huntsman-Trout, 1992.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Edward Huntsman-Trout Papers (Collection 1186). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9917205883606533 

    Processing Information

    Processed by Dan Luckenbill, 1988.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
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    Biography

    Edward Huntsman-Trout was born in Ontario, Canada, on July 31, 1889; graduated, University of California at Berkeley, 1913; attended Harvard School of Landscape Architecture, 1913-15; worked in the offices of Fletcher Steele, Boston, (1916), A.D. Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio (1917-22), and Rodeo Land and Water Company, Los Angeles, before engaging in practice under his own name; became a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), 1920; named an ASLA fellow, 1933; died, 1974.

    Biographical Narrative

    Edward Huntsman-Trout's career as a landscape architect spans the years 1932-1971. He was born in Ontario, Canada, on July 31, 1989, and following his graduation from the University of California in 1913, attended the Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture from 1913 to 1915. Before engaging in the practice of landscape architecture under his own name, he worked in the offices of Fletcher Steele, landscape architect, in Boston, 1916, and A.D. Taylor of cleveland, Ohio, 1917-22, and was employed as a landscape designer for Rodeo Land and Water Company, Los Angeles.
    The collection of his papers consists, for the most part, of his tissue designs and blueprints for many prominent residences in the Souther California area, as well as a considerable body of institutional planning. Some of his more notable clients include Bing Crosby, Robert Young and Harvey Mudd, the last of whom retained him to work also on Scripps College in Claremont. Paul Trousdale, the noted Beverly Hills developer, employed him on his Trousdale Estates as well as on several other development projects, in both Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. His early work included the planning of actual structures with original designs for gates, lamps, fountains, etc., as well as their surrounding grounds, but as his career progressed, he confined himself almost entirely to landscape design.
    Among his more notable institutional projects is the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, located in Arcadia. Of special interest here is his work on the Hugo Reid Adobe House, first built in the mid-Nineteenth Century, and restored during the Arboretum Project amid some controversy as to its original structure. Other significant projects include Pershing Square and Lafayette Park.
    There is little correspondence in the collection, and what there is deals almost exclusively with discussions between Huntsman-Trout and his clients on various aspects of the project in question.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists primarily of blueprints and tissue designs from Edward Huntsman-Trout's career as a landscape architect in Southern California. There is extensive documentation of his work at Scripps College in Claremont and also at the Harvey Mudd residence in Benedict Canyon. Other projects in the collection include the Los Angeles County Arboretum, Los Angeles Turf Club, Pershing Square, Lafayette Park, and various residences in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. The collection also includes correspondence, sketches, and photographs related to Huntsman-Trout's work.

    Expanded Scope and Content

    The collection consists of roughly 2000 architectural drawings, plans and blueprints dated 1922-1972, mostly stored folded in file folders which we have boxed by project number but with some rolled items. In addition, there is a very small amount of correspondence and 223 photographic prints and negatives. All the material relates to Huntsman-Trout's work as a landscape architect in the Los Angeles area and there is particularly full documentation of his work at Scripps College and the Harvey Mudd residence in Benedict Canyon during the 1930s.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Collection arranged alphabetically by client name.
    Title: Edward Huntsman-Trout: Landscape Architect, by Lynn Marie Bryant.
    Date: 1982.
    Identifier/Call Number: Library: SRLF Shelving number: D 000 731 115 2.
    Physical Description: vii. 98 leaves : ill. plans ; 28 cm.
    Contributing Institution: Charles Young Research Library, UCLA.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Sketches.
    Blueprints.
    Architectural drawings (visual works).
    Photographs.
    Huntsman-Trout, Edward, 1889-1974 --Archives.
    Los Angeles State and County Arboretum
    Los Angeles Turf Club
    Scripps College.