William and Alexander Curlett
William F. Curlett (County Down, Ireland, March 3, 1846 – January 21, 1914, San Francisco)[1] and Alexander Edward Curlett (called Aleck) (San Francisco, February 6, 1881 – September 5, 1942)[2] were a father-and-son pair of architects. They worked together as partners under the name of William Curlett and Son, Architects from c. 1908–1916.[3] Aleck Curlett partnered with Claud Beelman as Curlett & Beelman (1919–1932).[4]
The San Francisco firm of Curlett, Eisen, & Cuthbertson, Architects, was active in the 1880s; it designed the Los Angeles County Courthouse in 1887. In 1888, the firm occupied Room #41 of the Downey Block. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1888, p. 768.)[5]
Works
[edit]National Register of Historic Places
[edit]A number of works by either or both Curletts are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[6] These works (in California unless otherwise noted) include:
William Curlett
[edit]- Theodore F. Payne House (1881), San Francisco
- Mutual Savings Bank Building (1902), San Francisco[7]
- Packard Library (1906), Marysville
- Phelan Building (1908), San Francisco
- Villa Montalvo (1914), Saratoga
- Haas Californiandy Factory, San Francisco
Alex and William Curlett
[edit]- Hotel Congress (1918), Tucson, Arizona
- Rialto Theatre (1920), Tucson, Arizona
- Rialto Building, Tucson, Arizona
Alex Curlett
[edit]- Building at 816 South Grand Avenue (1924), Los Angeles
- Roosevelt Building (1926), Los Angeles
- Fifth Street Store Building (1927), Los Angeles[8]
- Board of Trade Building (1929), Los Angeles
- Equitable Building of Hollywood (1929/1931), Los Angeles[9]
Curlett & Beelman
[edit]- Cooper Arms Apartments (1923), Long Beach
- Culver Hotel (1924), Culver City
- Chester Williams Building (1926), Los Angeles[8]
- Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building (1928), Los Angeles
- Security Building (1928), Phoenix, Arizona
Other works
[edit]Other of their works include:
- New Lanfranco Block (1888), Los Angeles, with Eisen and Cuthbertson[10][11]
- Potomac Block (1890), Los Angeles, with Block and Eisen
- St. Mark's Episcopal Church (1902), Berkeley[12]
- Foreman & Clark Building (1929), Los Angeles, with Beelman
- Commercial Club of Southern California, Los Angeles[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "William F. Curlett (Architect)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ "Alexander Edward Curlett (Architect)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ "Curlett, William, and Son, Architects (Partnership)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ "Curlett and Beelman, Architects (Partnership)". Pacific Coast Architecture Database. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
- ^ "PCAD - Curlett, Eisen, and Cuthbertson, Architects". pcad.lib.washington.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 9 July 2010.
- ^ National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet: Mutual Savings Bank Building, National Park Service, 22 January 2014
- ^ a b "California SP Broadway Theater and Commercial District". United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service. 9 May 1979.
- ^ "AMBER-20150127111802" (PDF).
- ^ "Lanfranco Block - Romanesque Revival Downtown - PocketSights". pocketsights.com. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "To Be Replaced". Los Angeles Herald. 15 January 1888. p. 9.
- ^ "Campus Outreach". St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
- ^ "DTLA-Fact-Sheet_Dec2019" (PDF). December 2019.