Hunt & Chambers: Taylor house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Russel Taylor house in Los Angeles is an example of a traditional house, with a Colonial style front facade and a center stair hall. The public rooms at the front of the house lead out to a back terrace, which faces an expansive flat year. Upstairs, three main bedrooms along with maid's rooms and baths occupy the second floor.
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Hunt & Chambers: Babcock house (Tenafly, NJ)
While Myron Hunt is known for his houses in the Los Angeles area, he also designed houses in the Chicago area and along the east coast. This house for Mrs. Graham Babcock is an example of Hunt's eastern style.
Hunt & Chambers: Bard house (Hueneme, Calif.)
This Italian Renaissance Revival mansion was designed by Myron Hunt for Senator Thomas Bard, who was an early land developer and founder of the Union Oil Company. The Bard family owned the house until 1944 when it was acquired by the United States Navy, and today the house sits on the base of Naval Base Ventura County.
Hunt & Chambers: Berger house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Leo Berger house in Los Angeles has a Monterey style facade, with second story balcony and tile roof.
Myron Hunt, architect Padilla, photographer
Hunt & Chambers: Biltmore Garages (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Parking garages were a new type of building in the 1920s, with the recent invention of the motorized vehicle. Garages of this time period catered to the wealthy, with valet services, fuel stations, and service bays which would work on your car while you stayed in the hotel.
Hunt & Chambers: Boyleston apartments (Evanston, Ill.)
Myron Hunt attended Northwestern University in Evanston, then studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, traveled in Europe for a few years, and finally returned to Evanston to work for the Boston-based firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. In 1899 he designed this Georgian Revival style six-unit apartment building on Clark Street.
Hunt & Chambers: Hotel Belmar (Mazatlan, Mex.)
This hotel for Lewis Bradbury was one of many hotels designed by Myron Hunt. This one is located in the resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico.
Hunt & Chambers: Buick Garage (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This Buick garage and possibly dealership, is an example of the Art Deco style from the 1920s.
Hunt & Chambers: California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.)
Throop Polytechnic Institute was founded in 1891 and changed its name to California Polytechnic Institute in 1920. Throop Hall was damaged in a 1971 earthquake and was demolished in 1973. Some of the decorative elements of the original building were saved and the original building site is now Throop Memorial Garden.
Myron Hunt, architect Elmer Grey, architect Hunt & Grey, architects
Hunt & Chambers: California Junior Republic (Chino Hills, Calif.)
The buildings for the California Junior Republic, an all-boys school for troubled youth, were designed by Myron Hunt in 1911, with additional buildings by Chambers and Hibbard in 1950. Originally named George Junior Republic, the facility changed its name in 1921 to California Junior Republic, and finally Boys Republic in 1953.
Myron Hunt, architect H.C. Chambers and Lester Hibbard, architects
Hunt & Chambers: Canoga Park High School (Canoga Park, Calif.)
These renderings for the Cafeteria and Boys Physical Education building at Canoga Park High School were designs by Chambers and Hibbard, the architects who continued the firm after Myron Hunt's death in 1952.
H.C. Chambers and Lester Hibbard, architects
Hunt & Chambers: Chapoton house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Myron Hunt designed this large house for Martha Chapoton, widow of a prominent Detroit doctor, in the gated community of Fremont Place.
Hunt & Chambers: Cochran house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
This house for Guy Cochran was designed in the American Bungalow style, and written about in the Craftsman magazine. It featured large windows overlooking a manicured terrace for indoor/outdoor living.
Myron Hunt, architect Elmer Grey, architect Hunt and Grey, architects
Hunt & Chambers: Cole house (Pasadena, Calif.)
George Watson Cole was the librarian for the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery from 1915 to 1924. Previously, Cole had studied with Melvil Dewey, and worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago and public libraries on the East Coast. The floor plan hints at Cole's occupation, with an unusual combination dining room/library and a room labelled 'books.'
Myron Hunt, architect Harold Chambers, architect Hunt & Chambers, architects
Hunt & Chambers: Elks Club lodge (Pasadena, Calif.)
The Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks (Lodge #672) has been the headquarters of the Elks in Pasadena since 1911. The Colonial Revival style building has been the site of many television and film shoots, as well as a prominent place during the Rose Bowl Parade.
Hunt & Chambers: Emery house (San Marino, Calif.)
This estate for Katherine Sinclair Emery (widow of Frank Emery, who at the time of his death was considered one of the richest men in California) sits on 9 acres in San Marino. The Tudor style house is now known as Thornton Gardens. Hunt worked with landscape architects Florence Yoch, Lucille Council, and Katherine Bashford on the estate gardens. The National Trust for Historic Preservation acquired the house in 2018, along with the Huntington Library, and will preserve the house and grounds.
Myron Hunt, architect Harold Chambers, architect Hunt & Chambers, architects W.M. Clarke, photographer Florence Yoch and Lucille Council, landscape architects Katherine Bashford, landscape architect
Hunt & Chambers: First Congregational Church (Riverside, Calif.)
This church is in the Spanish Colonial style, with a Churrigueresque style steeple. The building is in the shape of a Latin cross, with two-foot-thick walls which are made of reinforced concrete, and a red tile roof that highlights the Spanish Colonial style. Hunt & Grey were chosen as architects for the church after a competition for the design, which included architects Arthur Benton and Lester Moore. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Hunt & Chambers: Flintridge Biltmore Hotel (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.)
The hotel was built for Senator Frank Putnam Flint, who later sold the hotel to the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels company. In 1931, the building and 30 acre grounds were sold to form the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic school for grades k-12.
Myron Hunt, architect Harold Chambers, architect Hunt & Chambers, architects W.M. Clarke, photographer
Hunt & Chambers: Flintridge Country Club (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.)
The Flintridge Country Club was built with thick walls, to block out the hot summer air and retain heat in the winter. The Club maintained separate spaces for women and men-- locker rooms, lounges-- but the center of the main building featured the dining room for all club members. The Country Club closed in the 1940s, and portions of the property were taken over by St. Francis High School.
Myron Hunt, architect H.C. Chambers, architect Hunt and Chambers, architects
Hunt & Chambers: Fowler house (Chino, Calif.)
This house for Margaret Fowler was adjacent to the Boys Republic property she purchased for the organization. After her death in 1936, the organization donated the home to a polio treatment center, which was named Casa Colina Convalescent Home for Crippled Children.
Hunt & Chambers: Garland house (Balboa, Calif.)
This large beach house was sited directly on the sand. With large balconies facing the water, the house allowed for indoor/outdoor living on the beach. The house sat on a corner lot, and included a long wooden boardwalk through the loose sand dunes to the beach.
Myron Hunt, architect H.C. Chambers, architect
Hunt & Chambers: Gillespie house (Montecito, Calif.)
Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey were the supervising architects for the design of the James Waldron Gillespie House, for the originating architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Gillespie took Goodhue on a seven month around-the-world tour as inspiration for the design of the house, El Fureidis. The house is famous as a filming location for the movie Scarface.
Myron Hunt, architect Elmer Grey, architect Hunt and Grey, architects Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, architect
Hunt & Chambers: Hawks house (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Howard Hawks was a director, screen writer, and producer from the 1920s until the 1950s. The house in Benedict Canyon was built with stucco and stone, with a vaguely Colonial style and early California ranch influences.
Myron Hunt, architect H.C. Chambers, architect Hunt and Chambers, architects Florence Yoch and Lucille Council, landscape architects
Hunt & Chambers: Hueneme Bank building (Hueneme, Calif.)
This Neoclassical style building was home to the Hueneme Bank, later served as the Port Hueneme city hall, and is now the Port Hueneme Historical Society Museum. It was named a Ventura County Historic Landmark in 1977.
Hunt & Chambers: Hunt house (Evanston, Ill.)
The house for Myron Hunt's family, on Wesley Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, is a vaguely Prairie-style, with some Craftsman and Bungalow influences.
Hunt & Chambers: Hunt house (Pasadena, Calif.)
The house that Myron Hunt designed for himself and his family on North Grand Avenue in Pasadena, California, bears a small resemblance to his previous house in Illinois. The gardens, loggia, and other outdoor areas highlight the difference in climate between the two sites.
Hunt & Chambers: Huntington Memorial Hospital (Pasadena, Calif.)
The original buildings are almost completely subsumed and surrounded by new medical facilities, but these original hospital buildings can still be seen from aerial views.
Hunt & Chambers: Huntington Library estate (San Marino, Calif.)
Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey worked for railroad magnate and real estate mogul Henry Huntington to design buildings to house Huntington's extensive library and art collections. The Mediterranean revival style building formed the basis for the Huntington Library and Art Gallery, which first opened to the public in 1928.
Myron Hunt, architect Elmer Grey, architect H.C. Chambers, architect Hunt & Chambers, architects