NOTES
Chapter 1
1. Adams, John D. Spreckles, 287.
2. Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1908.
3. Los Angeles Times, June 8, 1909.
4. San Diego Union, July 20, 1910.
5. Ibid.
6. The Evening Tribune, October 1, 1910.
7. San Diego Weekly Union, October 20, 1910.
8. Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1910.
9. Ibid.
10. Adams, John D. Spreckels, 296–97.
11. San Diego Union, January 1, 1912.
12. San Diego Union, August 24, 1912.
13. San Diego Union, August 23, 1912.
14. Ibid.
15. The San Diego Union, August 24, 1912.
16. Evening Tribune, August 22, 1912.
17. Ibid.
18. Ed Fletcher Papers, 1870–1955, MSS.81, Box: 10 Folder: 11, General correspondence–Hartke, C.H., The Library, UC San Diego.
19. Ed Fletcher Papers, 1870–1955, MSS.81, Box: 1 Folder: 2, General correspondence–Albright, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, The Library, UC San Diego.
Chapter 2
20. Los Angeles Herald, August 19, 1902.
21. Notables of the Southwest, 71.
22. Harper, ed., Who’s Who, 23.
23. John C. Austin, “The Profession of Architecture,” Architect and Engineer 30, no. 2 (August 1912): 49–50.
24. Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1922.
25. Al Malaikah, Civic Need Fulfilled.
26. Los Angeles Times, June 1, 1925.
27. Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1925.
28. Ibid.
29. “Allied Architects Association formed for the Advancement of Public Architecture,” Southwest Builder and Contractor 58, no. 2 (July 8, 1921): 10–11.
30. Ibid.
31. Los Angeles Times, March 7, 1925.
32. Ibid.
33. Hales, Los Angeles City Hall, 63.
34. Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1928.
35. Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1935.
36. Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1903.
37. Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1903.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1931.
41. Los Angeles Times, November 16, 1931.
42. Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1934.
43. Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1934.
44. Ibid.
45. Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1935.
46. Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1935.
47. Ibid.
48. The Jonathan Club was an exclusive men’s club founded in 1894 when the city’s population was approximately fifty thousand. It was a social club whose members included prominent civic leaders and the city’s top businessmen. In a phone conversation with the head of the membership committee at the Jonathan Club, it was explained that if members did not renew their membership or died, those current members in good standing had their membership numbers advanced forward to a lower membership number. Austin was able to acquire the number one membership slot by paying his dues on time and outliving everyone else who had joined before him.
Chapter 3
49. Lima News, May 31, 1955.
50. Ibid.
51. Wolfe, Men of California, 227.
52. Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1924.
53. Los Angeles Times, October 27, 1924.
54. Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1926.
55. Ibid.
56. Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1926.
57. Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1928.
58. Ibid.
59. Los Angeles Times, June 1, 1930.
60. Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1931.
61. Ibid.
62. Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1930.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Personal conversation with Mr. Sieroty on August 7, 2017.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1963.
Chapter 4
70. Elmer Grey, “Vicissitudes of a Young Architect,” Architect and Engineer 111, no. 2 (November 1932): 49–51.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid.
74. Elmer Grey, “Vicissitudes of a Young Architect,” Architect and Engineer 111, no. 3 (December 1932): 35–37.
75. Pasadena Star News, August 18, 1957.
76. Elmer Grey, “Vicissitudes of a Young Architect,” Architect and Engineer 112, no. 1 (January 1933): 41–42.
77. Pasadena Star News, August 18, 1957.
78. Ibid.
79. Elmer Grey, “Vicissitudes of a Young Architect,” Architect and Engineer 112, no. 2 (February 1933): 43–45.
80. Ibid.
81. Los Angeles Times, May 14, 1911.
82. Ibid.
83. Elmer Grey, “On the Design of Certain Modern Church Edifices,” Architectural Record 34, no. 6 (December 1913): 544–56.
84. Ibid.
85. Christian Science Sentinel, February 28, 1914.
86. Pasadena Star News, August 18, 1957.
87. MacKaye, Playhouse and the Play, 79.
88. Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1924.
89. Ibid.
90. Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1924.
91. Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1925.
92. Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1925.
93. Ibid.
94. Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1925.
95. Elmer Grey, “Vicissitudes of a Young Architect,” Architect and Engineer 114, no. 2 (August 1933): 31–33.
96. Ibid.
97. Ibid.
Chapter 5
98. Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1905.
99. Los Angeles Times, January 14, 1902.
100. Los Angeles Herald, July 23, 1905.
101. Los Angeles Herald, October 14, 1906.
102. Los Angeles Times, December 28, 1906.
103. Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1908.
104. Ibid.
105. Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1907.
106. Los Angeles Times, March 22, 1908.
107. Ibid.
108. Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1911.
109. Ibid.
110. Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1911.
111. Ibid.
112. Los Angeles Times, April 17, 1910.
113. Los Angeles Herald, August 20, 1911.
114. Ibid.
115. Ibid.
116. Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1911.
Chapter 6
117. George Credle, “Claud Beelman’s Corporate Modern Style 1951– 1963” (master’s thesis, University of Southern California, 2012), 9.
118. Linda G. Arntzenius, “Architects of Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles and Their Legacy” (master’s thesis, University of Southern California, 1998), 85–88.
119. Notables of the Southwest, 231.
120. Los Angeles Times, April 22, 1911.
121. Los Angeles Herald, April 23, 1911.
122. Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1916.
123. Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1918.
124. Ibid.
125. Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1917.
126. Ibid.
127. Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1918.
128. Ibid.
129. Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1928.
130. Kanner, AC Martin Partners, 34.
131. McDevitt, ed., Courthouses of California, 314.
132. Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1960.
Chapter 7
133. Los Angeles Herald, March 11, 1919.
134. Los Angeles Times, February 2, 1922.
135. Los Angeles Times, December 16, 1923.
136. Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1924.
137. Los Angeles Times, October 3, 1926. Note: Bernard V. Gerow, Harold F. Wilson and Louis Ghiloni were the architectural sculptors for the Chinese Theater.
138. Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1927.
139. Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1927.
140. Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1927.
141. Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1927.
142. Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1927.
143. Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1927.
144. Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927.
145. Los Angeles Times, November 20, 1927.
146. Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1928.
147. Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1932.
Chapter 8
148. San Francisco Chronicle, December 8, 1901.
149. Ibid.
150. Richey, Eminent Women of the West, 245.
151. Patricia Failing, “She Was America’s Most Successful Woman Architect,” Artnews 80, no. 1 (January 1981): 66–71.
152. Pasadena Star-News, May 17, 1978.
153. Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1913.
154. It is unclear who oversaw the ceremony. The Construction News says Ingold. The Los Angeles Times says Wagner. It is possible they divided the master of ceremonies duties.
155. Los Angeles Times, August 12, 1913.
156. Ibid.
157. Construction News, January 24, 1914.
158. “Proposed Group for the YWCA of Pasadena, California,” California Southland 14, no. 12 (December 1920): 12.
159. Relayed to the author in an email from Bharne on May 23, 2018.
160. Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1917.
161. Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1926.
Chapter 9
162. Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1896.
163. Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1905.
164. Octavius Morgan, “Architect’s Morgans Views,” Architect and Engineer 16, no. 3 (April 1909): 84.
165. Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1909.
166. Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1910.
167. According to the 1900 census.
168. Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1911.
169. Ibid.
170. Los Angeles Times, July 7, 1912.
171. Los Angeles Herald, February 7, 1913.
172. Ibid.
173. Los Angeles Herald, July 12, 1913.
174. Ibid.
175. Los Angeles Times, October 24, 1914.
176. Ibid.
177. San Francisco Call, September 25, 1913.
178. Ibid.
179. Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1922.
180. “Morgan, Walls & Clements,” Architect and Engineer 51, no. 2 (May 1930): 27.
181. Harris Allen, “Terra Cotta Versus Terra Firma,” California Arts and Architecture 37 no. 2 (February 1930): 32–39.
182. Los Angeles Times, March 22, 1987.
183. Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1929.
184. The Pellissier Building was declared Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 118 on May 16, 1973. The Bank of Italy Building was declared Los Angeles Historic Monument No. 354 on April 26, 1988. The Mayan Theater was declared Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 460 on October 17, 1989. The Chouinard Institute of Arts was declared Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 454 on October 24, 1989. The Belasco Theater was declared Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 476 on January 30, 1990. The El Capitan Theater Building was declared Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument No. 495 on June 12, 1990.
185. Los Angeles Times, January 30, 1955.
186. Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1954.
187. Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1957.
188. Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1957.
Chapter 10
189. Alfred F. Rosenheim, “Half Century of Architectural Practice,” Architect and Engineer 136, no. 4 (April 1939): 39–43.
190. Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1902.
191. Herman Hellman owned a building (a former home) that sat on the property where the Hellman building was to rise. According to the Los Angeles Herald, the Hellman building was not demolished, as other buildings on the site were; instead, Hellman’s former home was moved to land that Hellman owned on the corner of Flower and Pico Streets.
192. Crandall, Homage to Downtown, 260.
193. Alfred F. Rosenheim, “Steel Frame the Safest Method of Building Construction,” Architect and Engineer 14, no. 1 (August 1908): 49–51.
194. “Reinforced Concrete in Handsome Church at Los Angeles,” Concrete 9, no. 3 (March 1, 1909): 75.
195. Fernand Parmentier, “Southern California Meeting Minutes,” American Institute of Architects Quarterly Bulletin 12 no. 4 (January 1912): 296.
196. Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1921.
197. Ibid.
198. Ibid.
199. Los Angeles Herald, February 24, 1921.
200. Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1921.
201. Los Angeles Herald, February 25, 1921.