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View of exterior of houses with stucco-covered walls and fences

View of the Plaza Rubio houses from across the street in the Mission Rose Garden. Caption on back of photo reads: "Rubio Plaza Built by Mrs. J. C. Andrews, Craig arch."

View of exterior of two story stucco house with landscaping

This house on Ramona Lane in Montecito, was designed by Mary McLaughlin Craig.

This is a preliminary planting plan for the area surrounding the private residence hall, Francisco Torres. This residence hall, at the corner of Storke Road and El Colegio, was built and maintained by private owners. Though it was heavily marketed…

This rendering of the east elevation of the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics shows the sloping tile roof, vine covered trellises, and stucco exterior mimics the Spanish Revival nature of Santa Barbara architecture.

This is an early floor plan of the original building for Kohn Hall, designed by Michael Graves.

The Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics is a world-renown research facility where physicists meet to collaborate on cutting edge research and…

The 2016 renovation and addition to the 1968 Faculty Club was completed by Moore & Turnbull's successor firm, Moore Ruble Yudell. The addition included adding a wing of 30 guest rooms and updating the dining room and meeting room interiors.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

The Leo Berger house in Los Angeles has a Monterey style facade, with second story balcony and tile roof.

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.…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

This Buick garage and possibly dealership, is an example of the Art Deco style from the 1920s.

Myron Hunt designed this large house for Martha Chapoton, widow of a prominent Detroit doctor, in the gated community of Fremont Place.

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…

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…

The house for Myron Hunt's family, on Wesley Avenue in Evanston, Illinois, is a vaguely Prairie-style, with some Craftsman and Bungalow influences.

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…

Two story stucco house with tile roof.

This two story stucco house on Las Alturas Road in Santa Barbara was a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee.

This unidentified house was located in the Hope Ranch area of Santa Barbara.

This house was a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee

Women standing outside El Faro building (the Lighthouse).

The caption on the back of the photograph: "1926 Demonstration House #1 Better Homes in America Campaign in which the local Better Homes Committee won the National 1st Prize. Adobe brick on reinforced concrete foundation withstood earthquake."

This house on East Valerio and State Street was a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee.

Caption on back of photograph: "6 - room house by A. B. Cook"

Caption on back: 'A small home on East Haley Street, Santa Barbara. John Oliver, owner and contractor; suggestions from the Community Drafting Room."

Katherine Tremaine commissioned Paul Soderburg to design a house for her after her divorce from Warren Tremaine. The house was built in the hills of Montecito in 1972, and extensively remodeled by Soderburg for Tremaine in 1977.

With Cold War hysteria growing, architects, engineers, and designers in the post-World War Two era created small bomb shelters for single families, as well as large-scale underground shelters for entire communities. The Atomville design was…

These drawings display the level of detail and engineering that was put into designing a bomb shelter for home (backyard) use. The specifications take into account any large-scale shockwaves that might hit the entrance and air vents above ground, and…

Rental car company founder John Hertz commissioned Laszlo to build a bomb shelter in the backyard of his Woodland Hills, Calif. ranch, due to Hertz' concern over a possible nuclear attack on the Los Angeles area. Laszlo spent years designing the…

A rendering of a two story residence hall, with a one story connecting corridor in the distance. This is the second permanent residence hall built and housed up to 400 male students. It now holds over 600 co-ed students in four L-shaped 2-story…

A rendering of an aerial view of the Physical Education building. The gym was named after State Senator Alfred W. Robertson, who was instrumental in bringing the UC to Santa Barbara. Originally home to the basketball team, the arena was also a…

A rendering of the exterior of the dining hall highlights the patterned concrete block, the hipped roof, screen walls (to protect the students from the ocean wind), and dentil mouldings along the bottom of the concrete overhang. These pieces of the…

A rendering of the exterior of the dining commons. The addition of a second dining commons helped to alleviate overcrowding at the Ortega dining facilities. An addition in 1963 gave the staff dining space, as well as additional kitchen space. In…

A birds-eye view of the Dining Commons patio overlooking the lagoon. The first permanent dining hall replaced the use of the Marine Air Base mess hall. The original capacity was 800 students per meal, but was later increased to 1200 students per…

A watercolor rendering of the Arts Building, from an aerial birds-eye perspective. This shows the Spanish Colonial Revival influence on the design, with a focus on the red tile roof, courtyards, and patio spaces. Additionally, wind screens made of…

A photographic print of a birds eye view rendering of a version of the campus plan. The foreground shows the general outline of the residence halls, with the academic and administrative units towards the top of the image. Development on the lagoon…

This computer generated drawing of the connecting Paseo shows the options for different floor and wall finishes for the two story space. As one of the busiest areas on campus, with over one million people entering and exiting each year, the new lobby…

A small house surrounded by a flower garden.

A two story house with garden and trees

Two story stucco house with small front yard

This was a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee, owned by Mrs. B. Smith of the Mission Canyon neighborhood of Santa Barbara.

This is an exterior view of a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee, it is a house on Hermosa Road in Santa Barbara.

This house on Alameda Padre Serra in Santa Barbara was a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee.

This unidentified house on Western Avenue in Santa Barbara was a Demonstration House for the Better Homes Committee.

Caption on back of photograph: "Tied with Atlanta, George for First Prize Demonstration House #1 - East Yanonali St. Better Homes in America Campaign 1925"

This house received First Prize in the 4 Room Class for small homes. This Demonstration Home cost $2500 to build on East Cota Street in Santa Barbara.

View from the street of La Linda Vista bungalow court.

This Demonstration House #3 was located on Alameda Padre Serra street, near the Mission in Santa Barbara.

This photograph shows a model of South Hall, with Girvetz Hall in the foreground. Marsh, Smith & Powell designed Girvetz in 1955, shortly before Marshs' death. The firm changed its name to Powell, Morgridge, Richards, & Coughlin in the early 1960's…

Magazine advertisement by Frojen Advertising Inc. showing five architects of the Trousdale Estates, including Rex Lotery, Richard Dorman, William Stephenson, Edward Fickett, and A. Quincy Jones. The advertisement describes the combined work of the…

Photo of chairs in a bedroom in the Gerald Florence House in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of the living room in the Gerald Florence house in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of bedroom in Rex Lotery House in Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California.

Photo of dining room in Lotery House in Los Angeles, California.

Photo of a bathroom in the Los Angeles Rex Lotery house.

Photo of upstairs hallway in Los Angeles Lotery house. The stairs are also visible on the left side of the photo.

Photo of master bedroom in the Lotery House in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

Photo of living room in the Los Angeles Lotery House.

Photo of exterior of Rex Lotery House in Los Angeles, California.

Photo of the kitchen in the Lotery House in Los Angeles, California.

Photo of Brayton House from below, located in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of exterior view of Lotery House in Los Angeles from the street.

Photo of the study in the Los Angeles Lotery House. The dining room is visible in the background on the left side.

Photo of dining room in Gerald Florence house located on Loma Vista in Beverly Hills, California. Clerestory windows are in view.

Photo of exterior entrance of Gerald Florence House.

Interior photo of wall and ceiling detail in Gerald Florence House in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of front entrance of Gerald Florence house taken from the street.

Site plan of Lotery house with aerial view of house and terraces. Architect Rex Lotery built this house for himself in 1996 in the Montecito neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California.

Topographic map of Lotery house site. Architect Rex Lotery built this house for himself in 1996 in the Montecito neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California.

Ground floor plan of Rex Lotery's house in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Lotery completed this house for himself in 1962.

Plot plan of Rex Lotery's house in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles, California.

Photo of the exterior of the Los Angeles Lotery House.

Photo of the exterior side of Lotery House in Los Angeles, California.

Photo of the street elevation of Trousdale Construction Co. model house, located on Carla Ridge in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of the living room in the Trousdale Construction Co. model house located on Carla Ridge in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of the living room in the Trousdale Construction Co. model house, located on Carla Ridge in Beverly Hills, California.

Photo of the front hall and staircase in the Trousdale Construction Co. model house, located on Carla Ridge in Beverly Hills, California.

The small community of Lake Sherwood is situated in the mountains of Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles. The man-made lake and surrounding forest land was used in the 1922 filming of Robin Hood, and as the setting for many subsequent movies.…

As the population of the Los Angeles region grew in the early 1920s, developers purchased land that was formerly ranches to turn into housing developments. Merrick & Ruddick developed the San Fernando Valley area, and asked Stacy-Judd to design and…

In 1919, Stacy-Judd moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada and partnered with architect William B. Major to construct buildings in the rapidly growing area. The Empire Theater and Apartments in Edmonton contained a number of different architectural…

The National Guard Armory in Williston, North Dakota was designed by Stacy-Judd with a castle-like tower and turrets on either side of the entrances. The Armory was financed with a combination public, private, State, and National funds, since the…