Roland Coate: Fudger house (Los Angeles, Calif.)

This house was built for Eva J.K. Fudger, daughter of a citrus rancher and wife of a Toronto businessman. Fudger had been living across the street when she commissioned Coate to build this house with a view towards the adjacent Wilshire Country Club. Coate designed the house in a Monterey style, with second floor balconies, ample connection to the outdoors, and a rambling, sprawling floor plan which included a large servant's wing and separate owners' wings.
Fudger only lived in the house for two years before moving out and renting it to industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes, who lived in the house until 1942.
The estate's extensive grounds were designed by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council., which received an AIA award.

Roland E. Coate Sr., architect
W.M. Clarke, photographer

Roland Eli Coate, Sr. papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

1926

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